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Subgenre Sampler
Drunken Angel (Yoidore tenshi) (1948)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura - The film that made Toshiro Mifune a star – playing a petty gangster with TB, who turns to an alcoholic doctor for help after a shoot–out.…
Fallen Idol, The (1948)
- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Ralph Richardson - Celebrated, tasteful British thriller about the muddled attempt of an 8–year–old ambassador's son to protect the embassy butler (Ralph…
Gun Crazy (1948)
- Dir. Joseph H. Lewis
Feat. John Dall, Peggy Cummins - Cocked with outstanding set pieces, daring twists and a desperate, exciting romanticism, this 'B–movie' thriller makes the grade with any of…
He Walked By Night (1948)- Dir. Alfred L. Werker
Feat. Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts - High–tension film noir shot in semi documentary style follows Richard Basehart as a psychopathic loner being doggedly pursued by LAPD's finest.
My Brother's Keeper (1948)- Dir. Alfred Roome
Feat. Jack Warner, Jane Hylton, David Tomlinson… - Rickety chase film from Gainsborough Pictures with two prisoners chained together making a dash for freedom.
Naked City, The (1948)- Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart… - Classic crime thriller has its eye on a young woman's murder in the 'naked city' of New York, and the two veteran cops in charge of tracking down her…
Paradine Case, The (1948)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Gregory Peck, Alida Valli, Ann Todd - Lawyer Gregory Peck falls in love with the 'wrong woman', in this case Alida Valli, a client charged with murdering her blind husband. In classic…
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)- Dir. Anatole Litvak
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster - The great Barbara Stanwyck cracks up in this crime melodrama, an enjoyably overrought 'visualisation' of what was a gripping and highly successful…
Street With No Name, The (1948)- Dir. William Keighley
Feat. Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan… - One of the grittier film noirs of the 1940s, evokes its tale of corruption, mob violence and FBI infiltration with a semi–documentary surface.…
Velvet Touch, The (1948)- Dir. Jack Gage
Feat. Rosalind Russell, Leon Ames, Leo Genn… - Film noir with Rosalind Russell (HIS GIRL FRIDAY) playing a Broadway star who accidentally kills her producer during an argument, then stands by as a…
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