Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
White Heat (1949)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien - Intense, verging–on–primal performance from a greying James Cagney blasts this straight into the pantheon of greatest–ever crime…
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…
A Woman's Vengeance (1948)- Dir. Zoltan Korda
Feat. Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy… - Murder caper based on the short story "The Gioconda Smile" by Aldous Huxley. Charles Boyer (GASLIGHT) plays a philanderer who's accused of…
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…
Big Clock, The (1948)- Dir. John Farrow
Feat. Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester - Fine clockwork suspenser lands Ray Milland in a murder–mystery bind instigated by his manipulative media baron boss (Laughton). Texbook noir…
Blanche Fury (1948)- Dir. Marc Allegret
Feat. Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger, Michael Gough… - Gothic melodrama set around a sombre English country estate, soon to be home to upwardly–ambitious Valerie Hobson. When her secret lover…
Call Northside 777 (1948)- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. James Stewart, Lee J. Cobb, Richard Conte… - An enjoyable 'noir' yarn, based on the true story of a man unjustly imprisoned for the murder of a policeman in 1930s Chicago. Jimmie Stewart…
Criss Cross (1948)- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea… - Film noir stars Lancaster as Steve Thompson, a love–lorn armored truck driver obsessed with air–headed ex–wife Anna (De Carlo) who…
Cry of the City (1948)- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark… - Dying cop–killer Conte refuses to confess to a crime, and worries that childhood friend turned flinty cop Mature, will implicate his girlfriend…
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