Search results for "1949"
Mighty Joe Young

Mighty Joe Young

Mighty Joe Young
IMDb: 7
94

A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father’s ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to…

A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives
IMDb: 7.8
103

Lora May Hollingsway, who grew up next to the wrong side of the tracks, married her boss who thinks she is just a gold digger. Rita Phipps makes as much…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Pinky

Pinky

Pinky
IMDb: 7.2
102

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother’s house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been “passing”…

Genre: Drama
The Passionate Friends

The Passionate Friends

The Passionate Friends
IMDb: 7.2
90

A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Passport to Pimlico

Passport to Pimlico

Passport to Pimlico
IMDb: 7.1
84

When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus…

Genre: Comedy
Red Canyon

Red Canyon

Red Canyon
IMDb: 6.4
82

A former outlaw goes straight and is determined to catch and tame a wild stallion. Western.

Genre: Western
Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah
IMDb: 6.8
134

The classic story of Samson and Delilah as told by Cecil B. DeMille.

The Set-Up

The Set-Up

The Set-Up
IMDb: 7.9
73

Stoker Thompson is a 35-year-old has-been boxer. His once-promising fighting career has come crashing to the end. Tiny, Stoker’s manager, is sure he will continue to lose fights, so he…

Genre: Crime, Drama
South of St. Louis

South of St. Louis

South of St. Louis
IMDb: 6.1
88

With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Needing money, will join the Confederate troops, each for their particular motivations.

Genre: Western
Rope of Sand

Rope of Sand

Rope of Sand
IMDb: 6.8
104

Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.

Thieves’ Highway

Thieves’ Highway

Thieves’ Highway
IMDb: 7.6
94

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Whisky Galore!

Whisky Galore!

Whisky Galore!
IMDb: 7.2
82

Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 – during WWII – was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Barking Dogs Don’t Fite

Barking Dogs Don’t Fite

Barking Dogs Don’t Fite
IMDb: 6.8
N/A

Olive asks Popeye to walk her dainty new poodle Reggie, to his intense embarrassment. Bluto comes by with his bulldog, Killer, who tries to kill Reggie. The resourceful little pooch…

Tar with a Star

Tar with a Star

Tar with a Star
IMDb: 6.8
7

Gunfights are diminishing the population (1864- for the time being) in the tough Western town of Cactus Corners.

Genre: Animation, Comedy
The Fly’s Last Flight

The Fly’s Last Flight

The Fly’s Last Flight
IMDb: 6.8
7

Popeye is settling in for a nap in his hammock, but every sound in the city is disturbing him until he moves indoors. Even there, he’s plagued by houseflies. He…

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Silly Hillbilly

Silly Hillbilly

Silly Hillbilly
IMDb: 6.7
N/A

Popeye’s traveling department store comes to hillbilly country. He gets upset as Bluto, mistaking a radiator for an accordion, cuckoo clocks for a shooting gallery, and a girdle for a…

Popeye the Sailor: Popeye’s Premiere

Popeye the Sailor: Popeye’s Premiere

Popeye the Sailor: Popeye’s Premiere
IMDb: 6.2
11

Popeye and Olive are at the premiere of Popeye’s new movie. He gets a little too wrapped up in the movie, interacting with it at various points, and even handing…

Hot Air Aces

Hot Air Aces

Hot Air Aces
IMDb: 6.5
7

Despite the title, the vehicles here are airplanes, not balloons. Bluto and Popeye are racing around the world; Bluto’s got a sort of rocket plane, and Popeye’s got a sad…

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Lumberjack and Jill

Lumberjack and Jill

Lumberjack and Jill
IMDb: 6.5
6

Popeye and Bluto are lumberjacks who compete for the affections of their new cook, Olive Oyl.

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Inspiration

Inspiration

Inspiration
IMDb: 7.5
10

A glass blower imagines that his creations come to life. A story of love contained within a single drop of rain. A voyage into ethereal beauty.

Bad Luck Blackie

Bad Luck Blackie

Bad Luck Blackie
IMDb: 7.6
7

A kitten who is being tormented by a bulldog finds a savior in a black cat (from the “Black Cat Bad Luck Company”) who merely has to cross the dog’s…

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Wags to Riches

Wags to Riches

Wags to Riches
IMDb: 7.5
7

Droopy inherits a fortune, but the will says that if he meets an untimely death all the money will go to Spike, who spends the entire film trying to make…

Genre: Animation, Comedy
All the King’s Men

All the King’s Men

All the King’s Men
IMDb: 7.5
109

All The King’s Men is the story of the rise of politician Willie Stark from a rural county seat to the governor’s mansion.

Genre: Drama
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
IMDb: 6.6
91

Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is…

Genre: Drama
Boys in Brown

Boys in Brown

Boys in Brown
IMDb: 6.1
84

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where…

Genre: Crime
The Huggetts Abroad

The Huggetts Abroad

The Huggetts Abroad
IMDb: 5.9
89

Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the…

Genre: Comedy
Slightly French

Slightly French

Slightly French
IMDb: 6.3
81

A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a “French” movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Riders in the Sky

Riders in the Sky

Riders in the Sky
IMDb: 6.8
69

When asked about the Ghost Riders song he sings, Gene Autry tells this legend: Gene is about to resign as an investigator for the county attorney and go into the…

Train of Events

Train of Events

Train of Events
IMDb: 6.6
88

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

Genre: Drama
Bagdad

Bagdad

Bagdad
IMDb: 5.4
82

An Arab sheik’s daughter (Maureen O’Hara) avenges his death, blamed on Hassan (Paul Christian) and his Black Riders.

Genre: Adventure
Slattery’s Hurricane

Slattery’s Hurricane

Slattery’s Hurricane
IMDb: 6.5
87

A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story unfolds…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Intruder in the Dust

Intruder in the Dust

Intruder in the Dust
IMDb: 7.6
87

Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man,…

Genre: Crime, Drama
A Balmy Swami

A Balmy Swami

A Balmy Swami
IMDb: 6.3
7

Popeye and Olive are taking in a variety show. Popeye enjoys the juggling seal very much, but he’s followed by magician/hypnotist Bluto. Bluto spots Olive in her luxury box and…

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Dick Barton Strikes Back

Dick Barton Strikes Back

Dick Barton Strikes Back
IMDb: 5
73

Special Agent Dick Barton uncovers a ring of international psychopathic criminals with plans to dominate the world using a terrifying weapon of mass destruction.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Meditation on Violence

Meditation on Violence

Meditation on Violence
IMDb: 5.9
12

Chao-Li Chi shadow boxes indoors and practices with a sword outdoors. Theoretically, the film describes in a single continuous movement three degrees of traditional Chinese boxing, Wu-tang, Shao-lin, and Shao-lin…

Genre: Documentary
The Undercover Man

The Undercover Man

The Undercover Man
IMDb: 6.7
85

Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. The “undercover” agent poses as a criminal to seek out…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Undertow

Undertow

Undertow
IMDb: 6.6
71

Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge….

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tulsa

Tulsa

Tulsa
IMDb: 6.2
90

It’s Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing’s rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing…

Genre: Drama
Sky Dragon

Sky Dragon

Sky Dragon
IMDb: 6.9
64

All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up, it is discovered that a quarter-million dollars is missing. Charlie Chan–and, of course,…

Warning to Wantons

Warning to Wantons

Warning to Wantons
IMDb: 6
94

Featuring an early role for accomplished French actress Anne Vernon alongside Mary Poppins star David Tomlinson, this effervescent comedy charts the romantic adventures of a young woman who swaps her…

Genre: Comedy, Romance