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Subgenre Sampler
Boys in Brown, The (1949)- Dir. Montgomery Tully
Feat. Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde… - Soft youth rebellion drama with Jack Warner as warden of a borstal struggling to keep his tempestuous young charges in line. Mostly of note for its…
Eureka Stockade (Massacre Hill) (1949)- Dir. Harry Watt
Feat. Chips Rafferty, Jane Barrett, Jack Lambert… - Stirring account of the Victorian gold miners rebellion against British colonial authority in the 1850's and it's violent result. Ealing Studio's…
First Films of Samuel Fuller, The (I Shot Jesse James, The Baron of Arizona, The Steel Helmet) (1949-1951)- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. John Ireland, Vincent Price, Gene Evans - Sam Fuller's directorial debut is I Shot Jesse James (1949), the tale of Robert Ford (John Ireland), a member of the James gang who shot their leader…
Fountainhead, The (1949)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Gary Cooper, Raymond Massey, Patricia Neal - A touchstone movie for architects, idealists, and geniuses of any profession modelled on the career of architectural wunderkind Frank Lloyd Wright.…
Great Gatsby, The (1949)- Dir. Elliott Nugent
Feat. Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey… - The second adaptation of the literary classic has the miscast Alan Ladd as the mysterious Long Islander.
Heiress, The (1949)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson… - A near perfect adaptation, this Henry James tale of a naive young girl, her abusive father and fortune–hunting suitor, is considered one of the…
History of Mr. Polly, The (1949)- Dir. Anthony Pelissier
Feat. John Mills, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins… - Bracing comedy set in the Victorian era follows the various misfortunes of sensitive but ineffectual draper Mills as he sets out in search of…
Letter to Three Wives, A (1949)- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern… - Three women each hear from a friend that she is about to run off with one of their husbands. Replete with characteristically sharp dialogue from the…
Orpheus (Orphee) (1949)- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Marais, Maria Casares, Marie Dea… - Cocteau's surrealist retelling of the classical tragedy stars Jean Marais as Orphee, the writer who retrieves his wife Eurydice from the dead. A…
Passionate Friends, The (1949)- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains - A wistful Ann Todd divides her loyalty between a secure, older husband (Rains) and a free–spirited toff (Howard) in this rich, unrequited…
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