1949 Movies

Little Women

Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy

Starring: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor

Country: United States of America

Outline: A group of sisters experience life's difficulties and its pleasures while growing up in nineteenth-century America.

Pinky

Directed by: Elia Kazan, John Ford

Starring: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan

Country: United States of America

Outline: A light-skinned African American woman falls in love with a white doctor, though he is unaware of her true race.

Sands of Iwo Jima

Directed by: Allan Dwan

Starring: John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker

Country: United States of America

Outline: A dramatization of the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima.

The Stratton Story

Directed by: Sam Wood

Starring: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead

Outline: Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.

I Was a Male War Bride

Directed by: Howard Hawks

Starring: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart

Country: United States of America

Outline: After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.

Mr. Belvedere Goes to College

Directed by: Elliott Nugent

Starring: Clifton Webb, Shirley Temple, Tom Drake, Alan Young

Outline: Clifton Webb recreates his Sitting Pretty role as Mr. Lynn Belvedere, the World's Greatest Genius. Belvedere discovers that he is ineligible for an honorary award because he never attended ...

Jolson Sings Again

Directed by: Henry Levin

Starring: Larry Parks, Barbara Hale, William Demarest, Ludwig Donath

Outline: In this sequel to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement. But his wife has left him and the appeal of the ...

The Third Man

Directed by: Carol Reed

Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard

Country: United States of America

Outline: Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

White Heat

Directed by: Raoul Walsh

Starring: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly

Country: United States of America

Outline: A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn.

The Heiress

Directed by: William Wyler

Starring: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.

Cavalcade of Stars

Starring: Jackie Gleason

Country: United States of America

Outline: An hour of live variety, in the classic sense of television's Golden Age.

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Directed by: Robert Hamer

Starring: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood

Country: United States of America

Outline: A distant poor relative of the Duke of D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

The Admiral Broadway Revue

Written by: Mel Brooks

Starring: Sid Caesar, Mary McCarty, Imogene Coca, Marge Champion

Outline: A comedy/variety show featuring the early performances of Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca.

The Lone Ranger

Written by: George W. Trendle

Directed by: Stuart Heisler

Starring: Jay Silverheels, Clayton Moore

Country: United States of America

Outline: The adventures of the masked hero and his Native American partner.

Barsaat

Directed by: Raj Kapoor

Starring: Nargis, Raj Kapoor, Prem Nath, K.N. Singh

Outline: Pran and Gopal are traveling in a convertible in the Indian countryside but the car breaks down. Near Satpur they come across a village and rest there for a few days. While there Gopal ...

A Letter to Three Wives

Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Starring: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas

Country: United States of America

Outline: A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands...but she does not say which one.

The Set-Up

Directed by: Robert Wise

Starring: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter

Country: United States of America

Outline: Because aging boxer Bill Thompson always lost his past fights, his corrupt manager, without telling Thompson, takes bribes from a betting gangster, to ensure Thompson's pre-arranged dive-loss in the next match.

Twelve O'Clock High

Directed by: Henry King

Starring: Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell

Country: United States of America

Outline: A hard-as-nails general takes over a bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.

Le silence de la mer

Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville

Starring: Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Jean-Marie Robain, Ami Aaröe

Country: United States of America

Outline: 1941 in a small town in Nazi occupied France. Against the will of its elderly male and his adult niece residents, the Nazis commandeer a house for one of their officers, Lt. Werner von ...

Bitter Rice

Directed by: Giuseppe De Santis

Starring: Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone

Outline: Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.

Criss Cross

Directed by: Robert Siodmak

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally

Country: United States of America

Outline: An armored truck driver and his lovely ex-wife conspire with a gang to have his own truck robbed on the route.

Adam's Rib

Directed by: George Cukor

Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell

Country: United States of America

Outline: Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.

On the Town

Directed by: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

Starring: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller

Country: United States of America

Outline: Three sailors on a day of shore leave in New York City look for fun and romance before their twenty-four hours are up.

Captain Video and His Video Rangers

Directed by: Arnee Nocks

Starring: Don Hastings, Al Hodge, Ben Lackland, Hal Conklin

Country: United States of America

Outline: "Guardian of the Safety of the World", private citizen-scientist Captain Video, assisted by his teenage helper The Ranger and an army of Video Rangers, preserves the peace in the far-off ...

All the King's Men

Directed by: Robert Rossen

Starring: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek

Country: United States of America

Outline: The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.