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Subgenre Sampler

 
Odd Man OutOdd Man Out (1947) Recommended
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, ThePerils 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…
PursuedPursued (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 OrfevresQuai Des Orfevres (1947) Recommended
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…
Red House, TheRed House, The (1947)
Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Dame Judith Anderson
A man dares to unlock the mystery of the red house in the thick of the woods. Music, photography and Edward G. Robinson in a spooky key role combine…
Secret Life of Walter MittySecret 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.
Ship Bound for India, AShip 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, LeSilence 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…
Sin of Harold Diddlebock, TheSin of Harold Diddlebock, The (Mad Wednesday) (1947)
Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Harold Lloyd
Harold Lloyd’s last film transplants his go–getting character from the silent film ‘The Freshman’ into the rather different comic…
Sinbad, the SailorSinbad, 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…

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