Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Shoeshine (Sciuscia) (1946)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
- Perhaps Vittorio De Sica's first acknowledged masterpiece, concerns two young boys struggling to survive on the streets of post–WWII Rome by…
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan…
- Often underrated 'film noir' has an amnesiac soldier (Hodiak) return to Los Angeles from WW2 to rediscover his identity, only he may not want to... A…
Spiral Staircase, The (1946)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Ethel Barrymore, George Brent
- This creaky staircase descends into a spooky mansion of cantankerous matriarchs, mute nymphettes, 'weak' stepsons and impending murder. Dated, yes,…
Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Van Heflin…
- Compelling noir with Barbara Stanwyck as the eponymous rich bitch whose dark secret threatens to topple her off her ivory tower.
Stranger, The (1946)
- Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson
- Orson Welles plays a Nazi war criminal who marries an unsuspecting American, but Edward G. Robinson is hot on his trail. Welles also directed this…
Terror By Night (1946)
- Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray
- The penultimate Rathbone–Bruce "Sherlock Holmes", with the duo on the trail of a large diamond 'The Star of Rhodesia' which has gone missing…
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley, Henry Koster
Feat. Robert Walker, June Allyson, Lucille Bremer…
- A technicolor MGM musical, which was the first in a series of biopics by MGM about Broadway composers: this one is a fictionalised account of the…
Vincent Price Double (The Bat, Shock!) (1946-1959)
- Dir. Crane Wilbur, Alfred L. Werker
Feat. Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon
- A double feature of B–grade Vincent Price horrors.
SHOCK! (1946) – Dir. Alfred L. Werker. This concerns a murderous psychiatrist…
Woman in Green, The (1946)
- Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
- Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce play the definitive Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, in this updated (to the 40s) version of the original Conan Doyle…
Yearling, The (1946)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Claude Jr. Jarman, Jane Wyman, Gregory Peck
- Delightfully quaint fable of childhood, has innocent lad Claude Jarman Jnr raising a pet deer in backwoods Florida, while Ma and Pa, scrape together…