Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3634 Films to Buy & Rent
Out of the Past (1947)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
- Superbly crafted pulp, details the ominous voyage of doomed hero Robert Mitchum as he recalls the convoluted intrigues, involving femme fatale Jane…
Perils of Pauline, The (1947)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy DeWolfe…
- Showbiz melodrama in which Hutton plays true–life actress Pearl White, who graduated from being a lowly–paid seamstress to queen of the…
Quai Des Orfevres (1947)
- Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair…
- Romantically bleak French noir about an ambitious starlet and her protective husband who find themselves implicated in the murder of a lecherous…
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…
Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
- Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff
- Danny Kaye shines in this delightful family film as a quiet day–dreamer whose real life catches up with his elaborate adventure fantasies.
Sin of Harold Diddlebock, The (Mad Wednesday) (1947)
- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Harold Lloyd
- Harold Lloyd’s last film transplants his go–getting character from the silent film ‘The Freshman’ into the rather different comic…
Sinbad, the Sailor (1947)
- Dir. Richard Wallace
Feat. Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Jr. Fairbanks, Maureen O'Hara…
- Swashbuckling technicolour adventure set in medieval Persia telling the story of the eighth voyage of Sinbad, where he discovers the lost treasure of…
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
- Dir. Edward Buzzell
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn…
- The Thin Man legacy is stretched out to a sixth film, with Nick and Nora busting one last case involving a dispute over owed money to a two–bit…
Two Mrs Carrolls, The (1947)
- Dir. Peter Godfrey
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
- Bogie plays the baddie in this tense psychodrama – a mad artist who paints his female models before killing them. Barbara Stanwyk is the latest…
Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
- Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell…
- The first version of the true story of an English governess (Dunne) who in the 1860s journeyed to South East Asia to look after the King of Siam's 62…