Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Tulsa (1949)- Dir. Stuart Heisler
Feat. Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendariz… - Glossy melodrama with Hayward whose determination to save her ranch from a greedy oil baron sees her enter the cut throat world of prospecting.
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck - Gregory Peck is at his peak as a General brought in to restore morale to a squadron engaged in daily bombing raids over Germany. One of the great…
Under Capricorn (1949)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding… - An alcoholic woman (Bergman) is torn between her roguish husband and the governor of NSW in this Hitchcock oddity, a romantic melodrama set in…
We Were Strangers (1949)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendariz… - Adventure drama with Jennifer Jones playing a woman who joins the Cuban Underground and helps devise a plot to bring down the country's corrupt…
Where Danger Lives (w/ Tension) (1949-1950)- Dir. John Farrow, John Berry
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains… - Tautly directed crime of passion, with secret lovers Mitchum and Domergue making a beeline for the Mexican border after killing her millionaire…
Whirlpool (1949)- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, Jose Ferrer… - Tierney stars as Mrs Ann Sutton, a beautiful woman who seems to be living the dream in LA with her successful psychoanalyst husband William (Conte),…
Whisky Galore! (1949)- Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Joan Greenwood - When villagers on a dry Scottish isle 'rescue' a cargo of shipwrecked whiskey, a classic Ealing comedy ensues. Generous doses of sly humour help this…
White Heat (1949)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien - Intense, verging–on–primal performance from a greying James Cagney blasts this straight into the pantheon of greatest–ever crime…
Yasujiro Ozu Boxset (Early Summer; Tokyo Story; An Autumn Afternoon; Floating Weeds; Good Morning; The Flavour Of Green Tea Over Rice; Late Spring) (1949-1959)- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
- Eight masterpieces from the great Japanese filmmaker.
Young Man With a Horn (Young Man of Music) (1949)- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, Lauren Bacall… - Sharp biopic based on legendary jazz trumpeteer Bix Beiderbecke (played here by Kirk Douglas), who rose from obscurity to possess one of the most…
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