Search results for "1949"
Down to the Sea in Ships

Down to the Sea in Ships

Down to the Sea in Ships
IMDb: 7.3
120

During a whaling expedition in the late 1800’s, the aging Captain Bering Joy (Lionel Barrymore) and his new first mate, Dan Lunceford (Richard Widmark) engage in a battle of wills…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
It’s a Great Feeling

It’s a Great Feeling

It’s a Great Feeling
IMDb: 6.3
85

A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Bad Men of Tombstone

Bad Men of Tombstone

Bad Men of Tombstone
IMDb: 6.6
75

A marshal goes up against a collection of vicious outlaws terrorizing his own.

Genre: Western
Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime
IMDb: 6.6
94

A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman… that may have been involved in crooked activities.

Genre: Crime, Drama
East Side, West Side

East Side, West Side

East Side, West Side
IMDb: 6.9
108

A New Yorker’s (James Mason) mistress (Ava Gardner) drives his wife (Barbara Stanwyck) to a war hero; then someone kills the mistress.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Stratton Story

The Stratton Story

The Stratton Story
IMDb: 7.1
106

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

Genre: Drama, Romance
Any Number Can Play

Any Number Can Play

Any Number Can Play
IMDb: 6.8
112

Clark Gable stars in this 1949 drama, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, about a casino owner juggling both business and family problems. The cast also includes Alexis Smith, Mary Astor, Darryl…

Genre: Drama
Tarzan’s Magic Fountain

Tarzan’s Magic Fountain

Tarzan’s Magic Fountain
IMDb: 6.1
73

An expedition tries to enlist Tarzan’s help in finding the secret Blue Valley, which legend says is the location of a miraculous fountain of youth.

The Bribe

The Bribe

The Bribe
IMDb: 6.6
98

United States Federal agent Rigby travels to the Central American island Carlotta to investigate a stolen aircraft engines smuggling racket.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Act of Violence

Act of Violence

Act of Violence
IMDb: 7.5
82

A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Edward, My Son

Edward, My Son

Edward, My Son
IMDb: 6.6
112

Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.

Genre: Drama
The Rocking Horse Winner

The Rocking Horse Winner

The Rocking Horse Winner
IMDb: 7.3
91

A strange and ultimately tragic tale of a young boy who learns how to pick winners at the racetrack by riding his rocking horse to aid his parents out of…

Genre: Drama
Conspirator

Conspirator

Conspirator
IMDb: 6.1
87

A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.

Genre: Drama
Chicken Every Sunday

Chicken Every Sunday

Chicken Every Sunday
IMDb: 6.4
94

A woman takes in boarders to support her husband’s harebrained financial schemes.

Genre: Comedy
Big Jack

Big Jack

Big Jack
IMDb: 6.1
85

Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.

The Story of Seabiscuit

The Story of Seabiscuit

The Story of Seabiscuit
IMDb: 6.2
93

Horse trainer Shawn O’Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret’s brother, Danny. Working with thoroughbreds in Kentucky, Shawn takes…

Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Roughshod

Roughshod

Roughshod
IMDb: 6.6
88

Rancher Clay and his brother, Steve, head out across the Sonora mountain pass, followed by Lednov, an ex-con seeking revenge on Clay for putting him behind bars. Clay and Steve…

The Barkleys of Broadway

The Barkleys of Broadway

The Barkleys of Broadway
IMDb: 7
109

Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Challenge to Lassie

Challenge to Lassie

Challenge to Lassie
IMDb: 6.3
76

When Lassie’s master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog’s life should be spared.

Border Incident

Border Incident

Border Incident
IMDb: 7.1
94

The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California. The two agents…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Big Steal

The Big Steal

The Big Steal
IMDb: 7
71

Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief’s ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased…

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
IMDb: 6.6
106

A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use…

Ma and Pa Kettle

Ma and Pa Kettle

Ma and Pa Kettle
IMDb: 6.9
76

The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new tobacco slogan….

Genre: Comedy
The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden
IMDb: 7.5
92

When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at…

Genre: Drama, Family
Little Women

Little Women

Little Women
IMDb: 7.3
121

Louisa May Alcott’s autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg,…

Genre: Family, Romance
Sorrowful Jones

Sorrowful Jones

Sorrowful Jones
IMDb: 6.9
88

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn’t return, he learns that taking care of a child…

Genre: Comedy
Holiday Affair

Holiday Affair

Holiday Affair
IMDb: 7.2
87

Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who’s actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
IMDb: 7.9
34

Washington Irving’s tale of Ichabod Crane and the headless horseman is brought to life, narrated by Bing Crosby.

Genre: Animation, Family
Arson, Inc.

Arson, Inc.

Arson, Inc.
IMDb: 5.3
63

An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Helter Skelter

Helter Skelter

Helter Skelter
IMDb: 5.6
75

A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can’t seem to stop hiccuping.

Follow Me Quietly

Follow Me Quietly

Follow Me Quietly
IMDb: 6.5
60

1949 thriller about the hunt for a serial killer known as “the Judge” who kills his victims on rainy nights.

Genre: Thriller
Landfall

Landfall

Landfall
IMDb: 6.8
86

A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his…

Genre: Drama, War
Task Force

Task Force

Task Force
IMDb: 6.6
116

After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power….

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Night Unto Night

Night Unto Night

Night Unto Night
IMDb: 5.8
84

A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida’s east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Tough Assignment

Tough Assignment

Tough Assignment
IMDb: 5.5
64

A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald “Red” Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with…

Silent Dust

Silent Dust

Silent Dust
IMDb: 6.8
82

A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long before…

Genre: Drama
The Small Back Room

The Small Back Room

The Small Back Room
IMDb: 7.2
106

At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Sammy Rice, a highly-skilled but haunted bomb-disposal officer, must overcome his…

Le Silence de la Mer

Le Silence de la Mer

Le Silence de la Mer
IMDb: 7.6
87

In a small town in occupied France in 1941, the German officer, Werner Von Ebrennac is billeted in the house of the uncle and his niece. The uncle and niece…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
He Walked by Night

He Walked by Night

He Walked by Night
IMDb: 7.2
79

This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Man on the Run

Man on the Run

Man on the Run
IMDb: 6.6
80

A man recently gone AWOL from the Army (Derek Farr) is arrested in a store robbery that occurred while he was shopping. With help from a beautiful lawyer (Joan Hopkins),…

Genre: Drama, Thriller