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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Little Women (1949)- Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Elizabeth Taylor… - Technicolour adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott novel about four sisters growing up during the American Civil War. The fourth of seven film…
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…
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…
Quiet Duel, The (Shizukanaru ketto) (1949)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura - A pre–RED BEARD Toshiro Mifune plays an idealistic doctor who fatally contracts syphilis from performing surgery in this minor Kurosawa…
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…
Three Strange Loves (Törst) (1949)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten - Early Bergman film focuses on – surprise, surprise – an unhappy couple, who spend a lengthy train ride bickering while also reminiscing…
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