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Subgenre Sampler
Love Happy (1949)- Dir. David Miller
Feat. Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Marilyn Monroe - Final Marx Bros. comedy, is a downbeat entry, with a brief scene with Marilyn Monroe.
Man from Colorado, The (1949)- Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. Glenn Ford, William Holden, Ellen Drew - Gritty technicolor psycho–drama set during the American Civil War starring Glenn Ford as a Union officer who becomes addicted to killing.
Man on the Eiffel Tower, The (1949)- Dir. Burgess Meredith
Feat. Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith… - Solid early outing for Inspector Maigret has Laughton in the iconic role pursuing a murderer against some splendid Parisian locales.
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
- Dir. Ernest B. Schoedsack
Feat. Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong… - Worthy successor to KING KONG, reunites many of the cast and crew, with a compellingly different slant on the 'Giant Ape' premise. Here, Armstrong…
My Dear Secretary (1949)- Dir. Charles Martin
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Laraine Day - Underrated comedy concerning an aspiring young writer (Laraine Day) hired as the new secretary for a top author (Kirk Douglas) who is bitterly…
My Friend Irma (1949)- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin - Clown–prince Jerry Lewis first teamed with Dean Martin in this airheaded comedy based on a hit CBS radio–show.
Obsession (The Hidden Room) (1949)- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Robert Newton, Phil Brown - Loaded film noir of jealously gone awry, with Robert Newton kidapping his wife’s latest adulterous fling, and threatening, among other things, a…
Omoo Omoo The Shark God (1949)- Dir. Leon Leonard
Feat. Ron Randell, Trevor Bardette, Devera Burton - Sea–faring B–movie cheapie takes liberty with the Herman Melville story of a ship captain who falls under a shaman's curse after pinching…
On the Town (1949)
- Dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly - Exuberant musical about three sailors enjoying a day's leave in New York is about as good as this stuff gets. The cast almost bounce off the screen.
Orpheus (Orphee) (1949)- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Marais, Maria Casares, Marie Dea… - Cocteau's surrealist retelling of the classical tragedy stars Jean Marais as Orphee, the writer who retrieves his wife Eurydice from the dead. A…
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