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Subgenre Sampler
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.
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (1947)- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison - A whimsical tone pervades this mildly spooky tale of widow Gene Tierney being haunted by phantom sea–captain Rex Harrison. Music by Bernard…
Hue and Cry (1947)- Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Alastair Sim, Valerie White, Jack Warner - The first Ealing comedy is an affable yarn about kids who detect criminal information encoded in comic books. Shot on the post–war streets of…
Jour De Fete (1947)- Dir. Jacques Tati
Feat. Jacques Tati - Jacques Tati established himself as a major new comic as a postman who attempts to modernise his mail service. Such precise visual humour had not…
My Favourite Brunette (1947)- Dir. Elliott Nugent
Feat. Bob Hope, Peter Lorre, Lon Jr. Chaney - A spoof of Chandler–style detective novels with Bob Hope as a photographer who gets mixed up with mobsters. With Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney.
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…
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…
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…
Cluny Brown (1946)- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Jennifer Jones, Charles Boyer, Sir C. Aubrey Smith… - Jennifer Jones is radiant (and a hoot, to boot) as the makeshift plumber to a leaky high society household. Ernst Lubitch’s splendid…
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. James Stewart - A down–on–his–luck Jimmy Stewart is rescued from suicide by a Guardian Angel who shows him the virtues of his life gone by. This…
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