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Subgenre Sampler
Set-Up, The (1948)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias - This film noir classic is a gripping, real–time examination of a night in the life of an aging prize–fighter who refuses to be corrupted…
Snake Pit, The (1948)- Dir. Anatole Litvak
Feat. Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Celeste Holm - Hollywood melodrama that gives serious attention to the subject of mental illness with Olivia de Havilland (in a career–best performance) as a…
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)- Dir. Anatole Litvak
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster - The great Barbara Stanwyck cracks up in this crime melodrama, an enjoyably overrought 'visualisation' of what was a gripping and highly successful…
State of the Union (1948)- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Angela Lansbury - An idealistic industrialist is urged to run for President, but finds uncomfortable compromises are required on both a political and marital level.…
Street With No Name, The (1948)- Dir. William Keighley
Feat. Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan… - One of the grittier film noirs of the 1940s, evokes its tale of corruption, mob violence and FBI infiltration with a semi–documentary surface.…
They Live By Night (w/ Side Street) (1948-1950)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray, Anthony Mann
Feat. Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell - Nicholas Ray's terrific, heartfelt tragi–noir fluctuates between high tension and sweet romance, underpinning the fate of criminal lovers…
Three Godfathers (3 Godfathers) (1948)- Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne - Sentimental, exquisitely–shot Western parable of the Three Wise Men with John Wayne leading the outlaws who adopt a newborn baby.
Three Musketeers, The (1948)- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Gene Kelly, Lana Turner - An inventive and high–spirited version with duels presented like musical numbers.
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Walter Huston, Humphrey Bogart - Alltime Hollywood classic, rides with forlorn roughnecks Walter Huston and Humphrey Bogart (in a rare unsympathetic role) as they scrounge around…
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Barbara Lawrence… - Rex Harrison plays an irascible, paranoid orchestra conductor who comes to suspect his devoted wife's infidelity. Anchored around a memorable…
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