Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3634 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Three Strange Loves (Törst) (1949)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten
- Early Bergman film focuses on – surprise, surprise – an unhappy couple, who spend a lengthy train ride bickering while also reminiscing…
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.
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…