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Life with Father (1947): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor; Keen adaptation of the Broadway staple, with a starched–shirt father raising daughter Elizabeth Taylor in 19th century NYC.
Miracle On 34th Street (1947): Dir. George Seaton
Feat. Natalie Wood, Edmund Gwenn; Original version of the Yuletide fantasy, where child–sceptic Natalie Wood becomes gradually convinced that department–store Santa,…
Monsieur Verdoux (1947): Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin; Charlie Chaplin plays a bank cashier who marries and murders rich spinsters in order to support his real family. Chaplin's only commercial failure,…
My Favourite Brunette (1947): Dir. Elliott Nugent
Feat. Bob Hope, Peter Lorre, Lon Jr. Chaney; A spoof of Chandler–style detective novels with Bob Hope as a photographer who gets mixed up with mobsters. With Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney.
Nightmare Alley (1947): Dir. Edmund Goulding
Feat. Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray…; Cast against type, Tyrone Power smolders as a nefarious conman whose powers of seduction are employed to crib a secret mind–reading act from a…
Odd Man Out (1947): Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. James Mason, Robert Newton; James Mason, in one of his best roles, plays a wounded IRA–gunman hunted by police through a nightmare city–scape that clearly…
Perils of Pauline, The (1947): Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy DeWolfe…; Showbiz melodrama in which Hutton plays true–life actress Pearl White, who graduated from being a lowly–paid seamstress to queen of the…
Pursued (1947): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Dame Judith Anderson…; This moody western is one of the best Mitchum performances, in a film famous for it's unusual (at the time) use of Freudian psychology. A nightmarish…
Quai Des Orfevres (1947): Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair…; Romantically bleak French noir about an ambitious starlet and her protective husband who find themselves implicated in the murder of a lecherous…
Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947): Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff; Danny Kaye shines in this delightful family film as a quiet day–dreamer whose real life catches up with his elaborate adventure fantasies.

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