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Subgenre Sampler
Quartet (1949)
- Dir. Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Basil Radford, Honor Blackman - Four W Somerset Maugham stories are given exemplary treatment by the best of British, incl. Dirk Bogarde, Basil Radford and Honor Blackman. Unlike…
Queen of Spades (1949)- Dir. Thorold Dickinson
Feat. Anton Walbrook, Dame Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell… - Expressionistic ghost story in which an obsessive army officer in 18th Century Russia becomes convinced an elderly countess has gained the ability to…
Small Back Room, The (Hour of Glory, The) (1949)- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins… - .
Stray Dog (Nora Inu) (1949)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune - An early film noir from Japan’s best–known director tracks police detective Toshiro Mifune into the underbelly of Tokyo in search of a pistol…
Tulsa (1949)- Dir. Stuart Heisler
Feat. Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendariz… - Glossy melodrama with Hayward whose determination to save her ranch from a greedy oil baron sees her enter the cut throat world of prospecting.
Under Capricorn (1949)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding… - An alcoholic woman (Bergman) is torn between her roguish husband and the governor of NSW in this Hitchcock oddity, a romantic melodrama set in…
We Were Strangers (1949)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendariz… - Adventure drama with Jennifer Jones playing a woman who joins the Cuban Underground and helps devise a plot to bring down the country's corrupt…
Young Man With a Horn (Young Man of Music) (1949)- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, Lauren Bacall… - Sharp biopic based on legendary jazz trumpeteer Bix Beiderbecke (played here by Kirk Douglas), who rose from obscurity to possess one of the most…
Anna Karenina (1948)- Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore - Transplanted French director Duvivier – one of the key figures of 1930s "poetic realism" movement – brings grit and thoughtfulness to a…
Bicycle Thieves (The Bicycle Thief, Ladri di biciclette) (1948)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell - A huge sentimental favourite about a man whose chance at meaningful labour is taken from him when his precious bicycle is stolen from him. Though not…
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