Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Shockproof (1949)- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Cornel Wilde - Written by Samuel Fuller. A parole officer falls in love with a beautiful parolee, and tries to keep her away from her gambling ex–boyfriend.…
Small Back Room, The (Hour of Glory, The) (1949)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins… - .
Sorrowful Jones (1949)- Dir. Sidney Lanfield
Feat. Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Demarest… - Buddy comedy with Bob Hope as an inveterate gambler who fins himself the guardian for a young girl.
Story of Seabiscuit, The (1949)- Dir. David Butler
Feat. Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald, Lon McCallister - Shirley Temple stars in this version of the Seabiscuit racehorse story in which the 1930s 'underdog' triumphed against the thoroughbred champions of…
Stray Dog (Nora Inu) (1949)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune - An early film noir from Japan’s best–known director tracks police detective Toshiro Mifune into the underbelly of Tokyo in search of a pistol…
Streets of Laredo (1949)- Dir. Leslie Fenton
Feat. William Holden, Macdonald Carey, Mona Freeman… - Middling western with Holden as an outlaw who separates from his two partners in crime when they join the Texas Rangers, and he continues to commit…
Take Me Out To The Ball Game (Everybody's Cheering) (1949)- Dir. Busby Berkeley
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly - An excellent warm–up for ON THE TOWN with Sinatra and Kelly playing vaudeville buddies in the early–1900s who yuck it up in variety…
Thieves' Highway (1949)- Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb… - One of dir. Dassin's early noir triumphs, this has Conte seeking to avenge his father's maiming at the hands of a corrupt Californian fruit…
Third Man, The (1949)
- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard - Superb romantic thriller about a writer in post–war Vienna whose old friend fails to meet him – under mysterious circumstances. Justly…
Trapped (1949)- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt - U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters in this fast–paced B–noir.
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