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Subgenre Sampler
Lured (Personal Column) (1947)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Lucille Ball, George Sanders, Charles Coburn… - Earlier work in the oeuvre of cult director Douglas Sirk isn’t up there with his later masterworks but is more than just a footnote, with a first…
Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
- Dir. George Seaton
Feat. Natalie Wood, Edmund Gwenn - Original version of the Yuletide fantasy, where child–sceptic Natalie Wood becomes gradually convinced that department–store Santa,…
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin - Charlie Chaplin plays a bank cashier who marries and murders rich spinsters in order to support his real family. Chaplin's only commercial failure,…
My Favourite Brunette (1947)- Dir. Elliott Nugent
Feat. Bob Hope, Peter Lorre, Lon Jr. Chaney - A spoof of Chandler–style detective novels with Bob Hope as a photographer who gets mixed up with mobsters. With Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney.
Nightmare Alley (1947)- Dir. Edmund Goulding
Feat. Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray… - Cast against type, Tyrone Power smolders as a nefarious conman whose powers of seduction are employed to crib a secret mind–reading act from a…
Odd Man Out (1947)- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. James Mason, Robert Newton - James Mason, in one of his best roles, plays a wounded IRA–gunman hunted by police through a nightmare city–scape that clearly…
Out of the Past (1947)- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas - Superbly crafted pulp, details the ominous voyage of doomed hero Robert Mitchum as he recalls the convoluted intrigues, involving femme fatale Jane…
Perils of Pauline, The (1947)- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy DeWolfe… - Showbiz melodrama in which Hutton plays true–life actress Pearl White, who graduated from being a lowly–paid seamstress to queen of the…
Quai Des Orfevres (1947)- Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair… - Romantically bleak French noir about an ambitious starlet and her protective husband who find themselves implicated in the murder of a lecherous…
Red House, The (1947)- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Dame Judith Anderson… - A man dares to unlock the mystery of the red house in the thick of the woods. Music, photography and Edward G. Robinson in a spooky key role combine…
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