Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Years Between, The (1946)
- Dir. Compton Bennett
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Dame Flora Robson
- Michael Redgrave plays a British MI6 officer who returns home after working for the French Resistance to find that his wife, who had presumed him…
A Bell For Adano (1945)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, William Bendix…
- Hodiak plays an army major assigned to restore order in a small Italian town in this gentle–natured drama. The luminous –and blonde…
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn…
- Dir. Kazan's restrained debut, adapting Betty Smith's novel about a family of immigrants making do in the Brooklyn tenements of the early 20th…
Abbott & Costello: The Naughty Nineties, The Time of Their Lives (1945-1946)
- Dir. Jean Yarbrough, Charles Barton
Feat. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis…
- A double feature of slapstick shenanigans
"Naughty Nineties": A captain is swindled out of his riverboat by a trio of gamblers and stage show…
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly
- Wartime tale of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. A milestone due to the combination of gene Kelly's live–action choreography coupled with…
And Then There Were None (1945)
- Dir. Rene Clair
Feat. Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward…
- The best film version of Agatha Christie's novel, that is literally a by–the–numbers whodunnit. A little dated, but you'll have fun…
Blithe Spirit (1945)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Rex Harrison
- Novelist Rex Harrison jestingly arranges a seance, and inadvertently conjures up the ghost of his first wife, who then wittily haunts his new…