Search results for "1947"
Merton of the Movies

Merton of the Movies

Merton of the Movies
IMDb: 6.3
82

In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert’s heroics, they bring him to Hollywood…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Mark of Cain

The Mark of Cain

The Mark of Cain
IMDb: 6.1
88

An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one. As the situation festers it leads to murder…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Damned

The Damned

The Damned
IMDb: 7
105

A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter.

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
A Man About the House

A Man About the House

A Man About the House
IMDb: 6.3
99

Handsome Italian laborer Kieron Moore works as caretaker of the Neopolitan villa inherited by plain-Jane Englishwomen Margaret Johnston and Dulcie Gray. Johnston is swept off her feet by the raffishly…

Genre: Drama
Magic Town

Magic Town

Magic Town
IMDb: 6.4
103

Rip Smith’s opinion-poll business is a failure…until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Mail Dog

Mail Dog

Mail Dog
IMDb: 6.2
7

When a pilot has to turn back due to a severe storm, he drops the mail at a remote outpost where it can be delivered by dogsled. The falling mail…

Genre: Animation
The Macomber Affair

The Macomber Affair

The Macomber Affair
IMDb: 6.6
89

A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Lured

Lured

Lured
IMDb: 7
102

Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she’s approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes…

Lost Honeymoon

Lost Honeymoon

Lost Honeymoon
IMDb: 5.6
71

An American architect learns he has two children whom he fathered during his military service.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Lost Moment

The Lost Moment

The Lost Moment
IMDb: 6.8
89

In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared mysteriously. Using a false name, Lewis…

Living in a Big Way

Living in a Big Way

Living in a Big Way
IMDb: 6.1
104

A World War II pilot (Gene Kelly) comes home to a bride (Marie McDonald) who, spoiled by her father (Charles Winninger), now wants a divorce.

Genre: Comedy, Music
The Long Night

The Long Night

The Long Night
IMDb: 6.5
101

City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.

Life with Father

Life with Father

Life with Father
IMDb: 7.1
118

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

Genre: Comedy, Family
The Last Round-up

The Last Round-up

The Last Round-up
IMDb: 6.4
77

A rancher tries to convince an Indian tribe to relocate so their land can be used to provide water for Kansas City.

Genre: Western
Woman Without a Face

Woman Without a Face

Woman Without a Face
IMDb: 6.5
102

Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the…

Genre: Drama
Kiss of Death

Kiss of Death

Kiss of Death
IMDb: 7.4
99

An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Kilroy Was Here

Kilroy Was Here

Kilroy Was Here
IMDb: 6.6
70

“Kilroy Was Here” was a popular expression during World War II, but it’s not much fun to John J. Kilroy, who has to try to live with all the jokes…

Genre: Comedy
Key Witness

Key Witness

Key Witness
IMDb: 5.9
67

A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn’t commit.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Killer McCoy

Killer McCoy

Killer McCoy
IMDb: 6.6
104

Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing, however he has…

Genre: Drama
Johnny O’Clock

Johnny O’Clock

Johnny O’Clock
IMDb: 6.7
95

When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O’Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish…

Genre: Crime, Drama
It Happened on Fifth Avenue

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

It Happened on Fifth Avenue
IMDb: 7.6
116

A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Chips Are Down

The Chips Are Down

The Chips Are Down
IMDb: 7.1
105

“Les jeux sont faits,” is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
It Happened in Brooklyn

It Happened in Brooklyn

It Happened in Brooklyn
IMDb: 6.5
105

Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
It Had to Be You

It Had to Be You

It Had to Be You
IMDb: 6.5
98

A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.

The Invisible Wall

The Invisible Wall

The Invisible Wall
IMDb: 6
72

A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to…

Genre: Crime
Uncle Silas

Uncle Silas

Uncle Silas
IMDb: 6.6
98

Following her father’s death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Hungry Hill

Hungry Hill

Hungry Hill
IMDb: 6.1
103

Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.

Genre: Drama
I Walk Alone

I Walk Alone

I Walk Alone
IMDb: 7
97

Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Hue and Cry

Hue and Cry

Hue and Cry
IMDb: 6.7
82

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip’s wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first…

The Hucksters

The Hucksters

The Hucksters
IMDb: 6.7
115

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Honeymoon

Honeymoon

Honeymoon
IMDb: 5.8
74

A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.

Genre: Comedy
Hound Hunters

Hound Hunters

Hound Hunters
IMDb: 6.6
7

George and Junior get a job as dog catchers and spend the picture trying to catch one measly little dog.

Genre: Animation, Comedy
High Wall

High Wall

High Wall
IMDb: 6.9
99

Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he’s committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
High Barbaree

High Barbaree

High Barbaree
IMDb: 6.4
91

After his plane is downed in the South Pacific, a Navy flier recounts his life to a co-pilot while awaiting rescue.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
High Tide

High Tide

High Tide
IMDb: 6.4
72

A car accident traps two men inside a car near the water. With the tide coming in, they discuss the circumstances that led up to the accident.

Genre: Crime, Mystery
Hi-De-Ho

Hi-De-Ho

Hi-De-Ho
IMDb: 5.8
72

Cab Calloway plays himself in a plot about jealousy, night clubs, and gangsters. Ends with a series of musical numbers.

Genre: Music
Gunfighters

Gunfighters

Gunfighters
IMDb: 6.3
88

Gunfighter “Brazos” Kane lays aside his guns “forever” when he is forced to shoot his best friend, and decides to join another friend, Bob Tyrell, as a cowhand on the…

Genre: Western
The Guilty

The Guilty

The Guilty
IMDb: 6.2
71

Two friends land in hot water when they begin dating twins and one of the women ends up dead.

Genre: Crime, Mystery
Green Dolphin Street

Green Dolphin Street

Green Dolphin Street
IMDb: 6.8
141

Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie’s daughter, Marguerite, and William fall…

The Guilt of Janet Ames

The Guilt of Janet Ames

The Guilt of Janet Ames
IMDb: 6.3
83

A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.

Genre: Drama