Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)- Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff - Danny Kaye shines in this delightful family film as a quiet day–dreamer whose real life catches up with his elaborate adventure fantasies.
Sin of Harold Diddlebock, The (Mad Wednesday) (1947)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Harold Lloyd - Harold Lloyd’s last film transplants his go–getting character from the silent film ‘The Freshman’ into the rather different comic…
Sinbad, the Sailor (1947)- Dir. Richard Wallace
Feat. Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Jr. Fairbanks, Maureen O'Hara… - Swashbuckling technicolour adventure set in medieval Persia telling the story of the eighth voyage of Sinbad, where he discovers the lost treasure of…
Song of the Thin Man (1947)- Dir. Edward Buzzell
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn… - The Thin Man legacy is stretched out to a sixth film, with Nick and Nora busting one last case involving a dispute over owed money to a two–bit…
Two Mrs Carrolls, The (1947)- Dir. Peter Godfrey
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith - Bogie plays the baddie in this tense psychodrama – a mad artist who paints his female models before killing them. Barbara Stanwyk is the latest…
Anna and the King of Siam (1946)- Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell… - The first version of the true story of an English governess (Dunne) who in the 1860s journeyed to South East Asia to look after the King of Siam's 62…
Beast with Five Fingers (1946)- Dir. Robert Florey
Feat. Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre - Psychological horror with Peter Lorre hamming it up as only he can when spooked and stalked by the severed hand of a maddened pianist.
Bedlam (1946)- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Val Lewton, Boris Karloff, Anna Lee… - Meticulous though a trifle tame Val Lewton (CAT PEOPLE) production frequents the drawing rooms and asylums of 18th century London. Boris Karloff is…
Belle Et La Bete, La (Beauty and the Beast) (1946)
- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Marais, Josette Day - Cocteau brings a fine sense of fantasy to the old fable, creating a luxuriant atmosphere unique to his film–making. A true classic.
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews… - Uncommonly accurate portrait of small–town America after WW2 focuses on three war veterans attempting to adjust to civilian life. Historically…
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