Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Magnet, The (1950)- Dir. Charles Frend
Feat. Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox - After tricking a school–chum out of a toy magnet, an 11yr–old James Fox gets the guilts and resolves to 'do good'. Quirkily…
Men, The (1950)- Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane… - Famous as Marlon Brando's film debut, playing a paraplegic war veteran struggling to come to terms with post–war life. Brando's smouldering…
Petty Girl, The (1950)- Dir. Nat Perrin
Feat. Constance Cummings - Robert Cummings stars in this comedy–musical as an artist who causes a scandal through his choice of model.
Rocketship X-M (1950)- Dir. Kurt Neumann
Feat. Lloyd Bridges - Lloyd Bridges leads a bunch of wisecracking astronauts to the moon, only they get diverted to Mars! Prototype sci–fi cheapie rolls out the…
Stromboli (1950)
- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Ingrid Bergman - After his neo–realist masterpieces, this is one of the dir.'s best films, concerning a WW2 refugee who hastily marries an Italian fisherman and…
Three Secrets (1950)- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman - Three women exchange handkerchiefs and spill their secrets while awaiting news of their children after a plane crashes. You may need the tissues…
- Wagon Master, The (1950)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Ben Johnson - Pioneering saga starring Ben Johnson. A personal favourite of its director.
- Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad (1949)
- Dir. James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney
- Vastly underrated Disney animation with the odd–sounding combination of Washington Irving’s spooky “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and an…
Caught (1949)- Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Robert Ryan, Barbara Bel Geddes, James Mason - Noir–melodrama hybrid has half–mad millionaire Robert Ryan (a role based on Howard Hughes), wrapping Barbara Bel Geddes in the coils of a…
Champion (1949)- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Kirk Douglas - Kirk Douglas is sensational as a hot–blooded prize–fighter who winds up hurting himself after alienating the friends and family who aided…
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