Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Hue and Cry (1947)
- Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Alastair Sim, Valerie White, Jack Warner
- The first Ealing comedy is an affable yarn about kids who detect criminal information encoded in comic books. Shot on the post–war streets of…
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
- Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Googie Withers, John McCallum, Jack Warner
- Overlooked masterpiece of British crime noir which blends kitchen sink realism with the poetic sensibilities of 30's French cinema. An escaped…
Jour De Fete (1947)
- Dir. Jacques Tati
Feat. Jacques Tati
- Jacques Tati established himself as a major new comic as a postman who attempts to modernise his mail service. Such precise visual humour had not…
Kiss of Death (1947)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray…
- Fantastic film noir about a career criminal whose attempts to start a new life entangle him with a psychopathic murderer bent on revenge. Richard…
La Terra Trema (1947)
- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli
- Life–study of a poor Sicilian fishing village that is reverently neo–realist in its approach. Lovely B&W photography never distracts from…
Last of the Redmen (1947)
- Dir. George Sherman
Feat. Jon Hall, Michael O'Shea
- Economy–sized take on the Last Of The Mohicans story.
Life with Father (1947)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor
- Keen adaptation of the Broadway staple, with a starched–shirt father raising daughter Elizabeth Taylor in 19th century NYC.