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Johnny Belinda (1948)
Jane Wyman delivers the role of a lifetime in "Johnny Belinda." Her riveting performance as a deaf-mute girl who is raped and put on trial for murdering her attacker earned Wyman the Best Actress Oscar, the only win out of the movie's twelve nominations. [..]
Key Largo (1948)
"Key Largo" is a film noir crime drama about a World War II veteran who travels to a run-down hotel in Key Largo, Florida, to pay respects to a his fallen war hero friend. He meets up with his friend's widow and father, not realizing that [..]
I Remember Mama (1948)
"I Remember Mama" is a drama film about a Norwegian immigrant family in 1910. At the head of the cast is Barbara Bel Geddes, who plays the daughter reminiscing about her mother, while narrating the film. The cast includes Irene Dunne as her mother, [..]
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
"The Treasure of Sierra Madre" is Western film about two drifters who team up with an aged gold prospector to look for gold reserves deep in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. They strike it big and tensions start building up between them. The heavy drama proceeds from [..]
The Paleface (1948)
"The Paleface" is a Western comedy where Bob Hope plays a quack dentist from the east coast who moves west and runs into Calamity Jane. She marries the dentist to hide her identity from outlaws who are searching for her. The crazy comedy was well [..]
Red River (1948)
"Red River" is a Western drama where John Wayne portrays a cattle rancher who finds he cannot sell his herd in the cash-poor, Civil War South. So he simply decides to take them on a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, in this fictional account of [..]
Hamlet (1948)
The Best Picture of 1948 is....."Hamlet." This is the film version of William Shakespeare's 1603 play telling the story of Prince Hamlet of Denmark, who goes into a deep depression when his father's ghost informs the young Hamlet that he was murdered by his Uncle Claudius. [..]
The Other Love (1947)
Barbara Stanwyck stars as a concert pianist who checks into a hospital in Switzerland to treat an advanced lung illness, only to rebel against doctors orders by engaging in a partying lifestyle in "The Other Love." Director Andre DeToth ("House of Wax" 1953) put [..]
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Orson Welles put together a gem of a motion picture back in 1947 called "The Lady from Shanghai." This off-beat film noir murder mystery has a sailor becoming involved with a mysterious woman aboard a ship traveling from New York City to Shanghai. Director-screenwriter Orson [..]
Dishonored Lady (1947)
"Dishonored Lady" is a Hedy Lamarr vehicle about a woman magazine editor who is accused of murder. This film noir story is slow-moving and not very interesting, due to sloppy direction by Robert Stevenson ("Mary Poppins" 1964) and a lackluster screenplay written by Edmund H. North. [..]