Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Velvet Touch, The (1948)
- Dir. Jack Gage
Feat. Rosalind Russell, Leon Ames, Leo Genn…
- Film noir with Rosalind Russell (HIS GIRL FRIDAY) playing a Broadway star who accidentally kills her producer during an argument, then stands by as a…
Whispering Smith (1948)
- Dir. Leslie Fenton, Mel Epstein
Feat. Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall…
- Swish, action–packed western features Alan Ladd chasing train robbers and sentimental skirt. Good stuff.
Yellow Sky (1948)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark…
- Tough–minded western shot largely in Death Valley has Anne Baxter coming across a band of bank robbing bandits taking refuge in a neighboring…
13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte…
- A group of OSS operatives penetrate behind German lines in this rough–edged WWII thriller. Seeking a secret missile site, they must also…
A Double Life (1947)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Ronald Colman, Signe Hasso, Shelley Winters…
- Ronald Colman won a Best Actor Oscar as a Broadway idol who immerses himself in the role of Othello and allows his off–stage cruel streak to…
Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle, The (The Egg and I, Further Adventures, Go to Town, On the Farm) (1947-1951)
- Dir. Chester Erskine, Charles Lamont, Edward Sedgwick
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main…
- The first four movies about the homespun, cornpoke hillbilly couple, drawn from Betty MacDonald's bestselling book 'The Egg and I'. Cheaply made, but…
Angel and the Badman (1947)
- Dir. James Edward Grant
Feat. John Wayne, Gail Russell
- Classic model Western with big John Wayne as a gunfighter tamed by the love of a good woman.