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ShoeshineShoeshine (Sciuscia) (1946) Recommended
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 NightSomewhere 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, TheSpiral 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 IversStrange 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, TheStranger, 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 NightTerror 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 ByTill 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 DoubleVincent 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, TheWoman 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, TheYearling, The (1946) Recommended
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…

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