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Subgenre Sampler
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…
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…
Joan of Arc (1948)- Dir. Victor Fleming
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Jose Ferrer, Gene Lockhart… - Ingrid Bergman is radiant as the saintly Joan in Fleming's last film, and though perhaps unsuitably theatrical, has been greatly improved by…
Les Enfants Terribles (The Strange Ones) (1948)- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Edouard Dermithe, Nicole Stephane - A poetic drama–fantasy from the pen of Jean Cocteau (who also directed several scenes), that centres round the narcissistic,…
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