Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Jolson Story, The / Jolson Sings Again (1946)
- Dir. Alfred E. Green, Henry Levin
Feat. Larry Parks
- An American success story in song, accomplished biography traces the career of mammy–singing Al Jolson. Larry Parks offers a flawless…
Killers, The (1946)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner
- Textbook film noir has insurance investigator Edmund O'Brien auditing the curious death of prize–fighter Burt Lancaster, in a series of…
Leave Her to Heaven (1946)
- Dir. John M. Stahl
Feat. Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde
- Beware the beautiful woman! Gene Tierney makes a gorgeous yet domesticated vamp whose suffocating personality mutates into murderous frustration.…
Locket, The (1946)
- Dir. John Brahm
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Laraine Day, Brian Aherne…
- Film noir set during the day of a wedding, where a surprise guest tries to convince the groom that his bride–to–be is in fact a murderer…
Looney Tunes (TV Series) (Bugs Bunny) (1946-1969)
- 56 Restored shorts from the Warner Bros classic (violent) cartoon vault. Appearing are Sylvester, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety, Daffy Duck, Road…
Man I Love, The (1946)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Bruce Bennett…
- Romantic drama about a New York lounge singer who becomes homesick and decides to visit her siblings on the West Coast, where she unexpectedly falls…
Matter of Life and Death, A (1946)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. David Niven
- By a miracle, RAF pilot David Niven escapes certain death, only to find he must argue for his right to live before a 'heavenly tribunal'. A…
MGM Film Noir Collection (The Stranger, He Walked By Night, He Ran All The Way, Odds Against Tomorrow ) (1946-1959)
- Dir. Orson Welles, John Berry, Robert Wise
- Four vintage film noirs from the MGM vault.
My Darling Clementine (1946)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Henry Fonda, Walter Brennan
- Masterful retelling of the O.K. Corrall incident by John Ford, is also a note–perfect rendition of many classical Western themes. Henry Fonda…
Night and Day (1946)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Jane Wyman
- Somewhat unreliable biography of Cole Porter that gets by on it's soundtrack and Cary Grant's amiable performance.