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Subgenre Sampler
Life of Oharu (1953)- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka, Toshiro Mifune - The prolific, though rarely seen dir. Mizoguchi came to attention with this chronicled downfall of a court–concubine in 17th century Japan,…
Deadline U.S.A. (1952)- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Humphrey Bogart - Tightly scripted account of the newspaper business. Editor–in–Chief: Humphrey Bogart.
- Gentle Gunman, The (1952)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, John Mills - Dirk Bogarde and John Mills are Irish brothers sent to London by the IRA during the Blitz, but one succumbs to pacifism.
- Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
- Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Bette Davis - Fine acting, from Bette Davis among others, lifts story of aircrash survivors coming together.
Summer with Monika (1952)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Harriet Andersson - Early Bergman turns his lens on a pair of working class, teenage lovers. At first this rebellious holiday boat ride comes across as dreamy escapism…
Men, The (1950)- Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane… - Famous as Marlon Brando's film debut, playing a paraplegic war veteran struggling to come to terms with post–war life. Brando's smouldering…
Stromboli (1950)
- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Ingrid Bergman - After his neo–realist masterpieces, this is one of the dir.'s best films, concerning a WW2 refugee who hastily marries an Italian fisherman and…
Summer Interlude (1950)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin - Perhaps Bergman's first significant work, about an aging ballerina who reflects on a youthful romance with her now–deceased lover in moody…
Three Secrets (1950)- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman - Three women exchange handkerchiefs and spill their secrets while awaiting news of their children after a plane crashes. You may need the tissues…
Quartet (1949)- Dir. Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Basil Radford, Honor Blackman - Four W Somerset Maugham stories are given exemplary treatment by the best of British, incl. Dirk Bogarde, Basil Radford and Honor Blackman. Unlike…
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