Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Down To Earth (1947)
- Dir. Alexander Hall
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks, James Gleason…
- Musical comedy sequel to HERE COMES MR. JORDAN starring Rita Hayworth as Greek Goddess Terpsichore who comes down to Earth to join a Broadway…
Egg and I, The (1947)
- Dir. Chester Erskine
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray
- A comedy starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray as a married couple who move to the countryside to become chicken farmers. While husband Bob…
Farmer's Daughter, The (1947)
- Dir. H.C. Potter
Feat. Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore…
- Congressman Joseph Cotton's maid, Loretta Young, decides to run against him in the next election. A perceptive comedy that won an Oscar for Young.
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Gregory Peck
- Gregory Peck stars in this Academy Award winning melodrama about a writer who, for the sake of research, pretends to be Jewish and becomes a victim…
Germany Year Zero (1947)
- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
- A heart–breaking depiction of life in the post–WW2 ruins of Berlin, in which a boy struggles to help his family who are forced to live in…
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (1947)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison
- A whimsical tone pervades this mildly spooky tale of widow Gene Tierney being haunted by phantom sea–captain Rex Harrison. Music by Bernard…
Golden Earrings (1947)
- Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Ray Milland, Murvyn Vye
- Romantic spy film set the eve of World War II in which Ray Milland plays an English officer on an espionage mission in Nazi Germany to recover a…
Good News (1947)
- Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall…
- Toe–tapping MGM musical based on the 1927 stage production of the same name.
Set on a collage campus, where a football star falls in love…
Green Dolphin Street (1947)
- Dir. Victor Saville
Feat. Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed…
- One of the biggest box office hits of its time, this sweeping colonial melodrama of unrequited lovers who migrate to Aotearoa in the 1850s has dated…
Guilt of Janet Ames (1947)
- Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. Rosalind Russell
- Rosalind Russell plays an anguished WW2 widow who comes to terms with her husband's death by confronting the five men he saved in a heroic but fatal…