Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)- Dir. Allan Dwan
Feat. John Wayne - Popular WWII saga with John Wayne as a tough Sarg, spurring his troops on in the Pacific.
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
- Dir. Charles Barton
Feat. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Bela Lugosi… - One of the best of the 35 features A&C made between 1940 and 1956 sends up those golden–age monster mashes with winning gags and detailed…
Blanche Fury (1948)- Dir. Marc Allegret
Feat. Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger, Michael Gough… - Gothic melodrama set around a sombre English country estate, soon to be home to upwardly–ambitious Valerie Hobson. When her secret lover…
Fort Apache (1948)- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Shirley Temple - The first film of Ford's cavalry trilogy tells of a maverick martinet (Henry Fonda) at odds with his peers and the Injuns. Followed by SHE WORE A…
Jungle Jim (1948)- Dir. William Berke
Feat. Johnny Weissmuller - Johhny Weissmuller's follow–up role to Tarzan, as similiarly styled jungle adventurer, with companion chimpanzee.
Macbeth (1948)- Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Roddy McDowall - An expressionistic version of Shakespeare’s Scottish play, with Welles in the title role. Shot quickly and on the cheap, this is notoriously…
Portrait of Jennie (1948)- Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Joseph Cotton, Jennifer Jones, Ethel Barrymore… - An exquisite flight of fantasy, in which starving–artist Joseph Cotton is visited upon by an otherworldly Jennifer Jones. Dazzling photography…
Rachel and the Stranger (1948)- Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. William Holden, Loretta Young, Robert Mitchum - Western 'rom–com' with husband William Holden and 'stranger' Robert Mitchum competing for the affections of Loretta Young ('Rachel') towards…
Three Musketeers, The (1948)- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Gene Kelly, Lana Turner - An inventive and high–spirited version with duels presented like musical numbers.
Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, The (1947)- Dir. Irving Reis
Feat. Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple… - Playboy bachelor Cary Grant is ordered by Judge Myrna Loy to escort her teenage sister (Shirley Temple), so that the ‘bobby–soxer’ might…
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