Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
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.
Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, The (1947)
- Dir. Irving Reis
Feat. Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple…
- Playboy bachelor Cary Grant is ordered by Judge Myrna Loy to escort her teenage sister (Shirley Temple), so that the ‘bobby–soxer’ might…
Body and Soul (1947)
- Dir. Robert Rossen
Feat. John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, William Conrad…
- Vital companion–piece to FORCE OF EVIL with John Garfield again lined up for the fall, as a naive, get–ahead young boxer whose propensity…
Born to Kill (1947)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor, Audrey Long…
- Cracking, hard–edged B–movie thriller, with studly Lawrence Tierney as a ‘homme fatale’ who seduces his way into a cushy marriage in…