Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Somewhere in the Night (1946)- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan… - Often underrated 'film noir' has an amnesiac soldier (Hodiak) return to Los Angeles from WW2 to rediscover his identity, only he may not want to... A…
Spiral Staircase, The (1946)- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Ethel Barrymore, George Brent - This creaky staircase descends into a spooky mansion of cantankerous matriarchs, mute nymphettes, 'weak' stepsons and impending murder. Dated, yes,…
Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Van Heflin… - Compelling noir with Barbara Stanwyck as the eponymous rich bitch whose dark secret threatens to topple her off her ivory tower.
Stranger, The (1946)- Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson - Orson Welles plays a Nazi war criminal who marries an unsuspecting American, but Edward G. Robinson is hot on his trail. Welles also directed this…
Terror By Night (1946)- Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray - The penultimate Rathbone–Bruce "Sherlock Holmes", with the duo on the trail of a large diamond 'The Star of Rhodesia' which has gone missing…
Theirs is the Glory (Men of Arnhem) (1946)- Dir. Brian Desmond Hurst
Feat. Stanley Maxted - British war movie depicting the 1st Airborne Division's involvement in the 1944 Battle of Arnhem, a battle which was also the subject of A BRIDGE TOO…
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)- Dir. Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley, Henry Koster
Feat. Robert Walker, June Allyson, Lucille Bremer… - A technicolor MGM musical, which was the first in a series of biopics by MGM about Broadway composers: this one is a fictionalised account of the…
Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Minosuke Bando, Kinuyo Tanaka - Biographical drama about the 18th century printmaker Kitagawa Utamaro, and the women (mostly brothel workers) who inspired his work.
Vincent Price Double (The Bat, Shock!) (1946-1959)- Dir. Crane Wilbur, Alfred L. Werker
Feat. Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon - A double feature of B–grade Vincent Price horrors. SHOCK! (1946) – Dir. Alfred L. Werker. This concerns a murderous psychiatrist…
Virginian, The (1946)- Feat. Joel McCrea, Sonny Tufts, Brian Donlevy
- Fourth time out of the stable adaptation of Owen Wister's influential novel. Local ranch hand (McCrea) risks losing his best friend and the woman…
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