Subgenre Sampler
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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…
Body and Soul (1947)
- Dir. Robert Rossen
Feat. John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, William Conrad…
- Vital companion–piece to FORCE OF EVIL with John Garfield again lined up for the fall, as a naive, get–ahead young boxer whose propensity…
Brighton Rock (1947)
- Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
- One of the coolest British crime flicks sees Richard Attenborough give an attention–grabbing portrayal of a delinquent gang leader who wants…
Dark Passage (1947)
- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
- Smokey Bogie and Bacall noir thriller in which his convicted murderer flees prison and changes his face to prove his innocence. The first third is…
Farmer's Daughter, The (1947)
- Dir. H.C. Potter
Feat. Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore…
- Congressman Joseph Cotton's maid, Loretta Young, decides to run against him in the next election. A perceptive comedy that won an Oscar for Young.
Guilt of Janet Ames (1947)
- Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. Rosalind Russell
- Rosalind Russell plays an anguished WW2 widow who comes to terms with her husband's death by confronting the five men he saved in a heroic but fatal…
Kenneth Anger's Magick Lantern Cycle Vol. 1 (1947-1953)
- Dir. Kenneth Anger
- The first of a four–part compendium of shorts from the American iconoclast: 'Fireworks' (1947), made at the tender age of 15, 'Rabbit's Moon'…
Last of the Redmen (1947)
- Dir. George Sherman
Feat. Jon Hall, Michael O'Shea
- Economy–sized take on the Last Of The Mohicans story.
Red House, The (1947)
- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Dame Judith Anderson…
- A man dares to unlock the mystery of the red house in the thick of the woods. Music, photography and Edward G. Robinson in a spooky key role combine…