1947 Movies

Life with Father

Directed by: Michael Curtiz

Starring: William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn

Country: United States of America

Outline: A financier from New York rules his numerous family, consisting of his wife and his four sons, with the meticulousness of a bookkeeper.

Road to Rio

Directed by: Norman Z. McLeod

Starring: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard

Outline: Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter.

The Egg and I

Directed by: Chester Erskine

Starring: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Louise Allbritton

Country: United States of America

Outline: On their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob.

Green Dolphin Street

Directed by: Victor Saville

Starring: Van Heflin, Lana Turner, Donna Reed, Richard Hart

Outline: 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 ...

Mother Wore Tights

Directed by: Walter Lang

Starring: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman, Connie Marshall

Outline: In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her ...

Cass Timberlane

Directed by: George Sidney

Starring: Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Zachary Scott, Tom Drake

Outline: Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of of Cass' Brad Criley. While...

Out of the Past

Directed by: Jacques Tourneur

Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming

Country: United States of America

Outline: A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames.

Monsieur Verdoux

Directed by: Charles Chaplin

Starring: Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis

Country: United States of America

Outline: A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Starring: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best

Country: United States of America

Outline: In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted...and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.

Miracle on 34th Street

Directed by: George Seaton

Starring: Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Gene Lockhart

Country: United States of America

Outline: When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing.

Odd Man Out

Directed by: Carol Reed

Starring: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, F.J. McCormick

Country: United States of America

Outline: A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.

Nightmare Alley

Directed by: Edmund Goulding

Starring: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker

Country: United States of America

Outline: The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.

Body and Soul

Directed by: Robert Rossen

Starring: John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere

Country: United States of America

Outline: A talented boxer's young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.

Good News

Directed by: Charles Walters

Starring: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall, Joan McCracken

Outline: At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring 20's, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat ...

Brute Force

Directed by: Jules Dassin

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo

Country: United States of America

Outline: At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.

The Lady from Shanghai

Directed by: Orson Welles

Starring: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders

Country: United States of America

Outline: Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

Dark Passage

Directed by: Delmer Daves

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead

Country: United States of America

Outline: A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

The Bishop's Wife

Directed by: Henry Koster

Starring: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley

Country: United States of America

Outline: An angel in human form enters the life of a bishop in order to help him build a new cathedral and repair his fractured marriage.

Kiss of Death

Directed by: Henry Hathaway

Starring: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark

Country: United States of America

Outline: With his law-breaking lifestyle in the past, an ex-con, along with his family, attempt to start a new life, knowing a betrayed someone from the past is bound to see otherwise.

Crossfire

Directed by: Edward Dmytryk

Starring: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame

Country: United States of America

Outline: A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?

Gentleman's Agreement

Directed by: Elia Kazan

Starring: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm

Country: United States of America

Outline: A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.

Brighton Rock

Directed by: John Boulting

Starring: Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Harcourt Williams

Country: United States of America

Outline: Pinkie Brown is a small-town hoodlum whose gang runs a protection racket based at Brighton race course. When Pinkie murders a journalist called Fred Hale whom he believes is responsible for...

Buck Privates Come Home

Directed by: Charles Barton

Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Tom Brown, Joan Shawlee

Outline: Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates ...

Pursued

Directed by: Raoul Walsh

Starring: Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger

Country: United States of America

Outline: A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.

Born to Kill

Directed by: Robert Wise

Starring: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak, Phillip Terry

Country: United States of America

Outline: A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with the hotheaded murderer romancing her foster sister.