Subgenre Sampler
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Ship Bound for India, A (1947)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Holger Löwenadler
- An early, overlooked play adaptation finds Bergman's visual and dramatic style in its formative stages. Four troubled souls are drawn together by a…
Silence de la Mer, Le (The Silence of the Sea) (1947)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Howard Vernon
- A German officer is billeted with an elderly man and his niece during the occupation of France in this introspective and talky chamber piece, heavy…
Sinbad, the Sailor (1947)
- Dir. Richard Wallace
Feat. Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Jr. Fairbanks, Maureen O'Hara…
- Swashbuckling technicolour adventure set in medieval Persia telling the story of the eighth voyage of Sinbad, where he discovers the lost treasure of…
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
- Dir. Edward Buzzell
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn…
- The Thin Man legacy is stretched out to a sixth film, with Nick and Nora busting one last case involving a dispute over owed money to a two–bit…
Trial at Nuremberg (1947)
- Dir. Jack Kaufman
- Actual footage of the historic war crime hearings in which Goering, Hess and 19 other SS Nazi leaders would be brought to trial over 217 days at the…
Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
- Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell…
- The first version of the true story of an English governess (Dunne) who in the 1860s journeyed to South East Asia to look after the King of Siam's 62…
Belle Et La Bete, La (Beauty and the Beast) (1946)
- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Marais, Josette Day
- Cocteau brings a fine sense of fantasy to the old fable, creating a luxuriant atmosphere unique to his film–making. A true classic.
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews…
- Uncommonly accurate portrait of small–town America after WW2 focuses on three war veterans attempting to adjust to civilian life. Historically…
Big Sleep, The (1946)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
- This adaptation of Raymond Chandler's mystery novel has perhaps become the greatest film noir of all time. Humphrey Bogart as detective Marlowe falls…
Black Angel (1946)
- Dir. Roy William Neill
Feat. Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre…
- The husband of a murdered woman and the wife of the man who was convicted for the killing (Duryea and Vincent) team up to prove his innocence, until…