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Thriller

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

11 Dec The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

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Chinese Puzzle first mystery is to guess what Welles' original film was like. That makes this a real adventure -- to see an incomplete skeleton and using cinematic forensics, imagine the beautiful woman it once supported. If you do, you will both see and experience perhaps...

Published December 11, 2024

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Tagged: 1940s, f1947, p2001

Black Narcissus (1947)

A story of exquisite yearning in a strange and beautiful land. Towering over the screen ... as the mountains that saw it happen.

Filmmaker(s): Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.

18 Jan Black Narcissus (1947)

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Black and White but Not Red All Over Shoes” is a truly important film, significant enough to be on my short list of films that changed film forever — and to some extent life. It is rich and complex with all sorts of nested realities...

Published January 18, 2024

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Tagged: 1940s, f1947, p2003

Appointment with Crime (1946)

Filmmaker(s): John Harlow

Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.

01 May Appointment with Crime (1946)

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Hands Off me, noir is a very specific form. It is as pervasive and important an invention as Jazz. The thing that distinguishes it is a main character who is put through the wringer in circumstances that would never occur if there were not us...

Published May 1, 2023

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Tagged: 1940s, f1946, p2015

The Big Sleep (1946)

The picture they were born for!

Filmmaker(s): Howard Hawks

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

12 Aug The Big Sleep (1946)

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Camera in the Head an enthusiast of film, the kind of film that uses the uniquely cinematic qualities of the medium. From time to time, I see a non-cinematic film which I like. This is one such. By non-cinematic, I mean that the film is not...

Published August 12, 2023

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Tagged: 1940s, f1946, p2003

Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Three wonderful loves in the best picture of the year!

Filmmaker(s): William Wyler

Romance

War

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.

14 Jul Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

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Slow Meditation on Observation treacly story hides some masterful filmmaking. Film is all about observation, except the observed usually contrive to make the observer feel unobtrusive. During this period, intelligent filmmakers were playing with the form so that often films were not only engineered observations but the...

Published July 14, 2023

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Tagged: 1940s, f1946, p2004

The Dark Mirror (1946)

Twins! One who loves... one who loves to Kill!

Filmmaker(s): Robert Siodmak

Thriller

A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.

07 Mar The Dark Mirror (1946)

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Her Sister Rose actor’s challenge is when they are required to create their own mob, create the tension they are to hold. I’ve just seen a few “multiple people in one body” type films. Here we have something different: one actress playing two characters, exact...

Published March 7, 2023

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Tagged: 1940s, f1946, p2010

Dressed to Kill (1946)

Queen…of a crime cult!

Filmmaker(s): Roy William Neill

A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.

22 Nov Dressed to Kill (1946)

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A Sad Goodbye Basil Rathbone Holmes movies are a wonder. They deviate so far from the stories in intent, they offend. Yet at the same time, they were important to the redefinition of the British wartime character. They were not important at all in the scheme...

Published November 22, 2022

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And Then There Were None (1945)

Filmmaker(s): René Clair

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at each of the guests. Soon they start being murdered, one by one. As the survivors try to keep their wits, they reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.

18 Sep And Then There Were None (1945)

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Dame Agatha's Dead has been as profoundly influential in film as Shakespeare. We can't take too lightly how often we see the effects of her experiments in tweaking the identity of the reader/ viewer. This is one of her most interesting constructions: presented quite differently...

Published September 18, 2022

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Tagged: 1940s, f1945, p2005

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!

Filmmaker(s): Frank Capra

Comedy