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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Red 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 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, 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…
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