Words and Music

Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting, through lean years and their breakthrough, to their successes on Broadway, London, and Hollywood. We see the fruits of Hart and Rodgers' collaboration - elaborately staged numbers from their plays, characters' visits to night clubs, and impromptu performances at parties. We also see Larry's scattered approach to life, his failed love with Peggy McNeil, his unhappiness, and Richard's successful wooing of Dorothy Feiner.

Johnny Belinda

♡ 8

A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.

Test Tube Babies

1948

English

3.4

♡ 3

Action

artificial insemination

Drama

W. Merle Connell Director

Helen Cogan as Grace

Zona Siggins as Nurse

Guy Gordon as Phil

Gine Franklin as Ralph

A happily married couple has been trying to have a baby with no luck. They discover that the husband is sterile. Their family doctor suggests that they think about artificial insemination, which at the time was considered a scandalous choice.

Anna Karenina

1948

English

6.6

♡ 8

59%

Action

based on novel or book

st. petersburg, russia

Julien Duvivier Director

Leslie Phillips as Bit Part

Austin Trevor as Col. Vronsky

Kieron Moore as Count Vronsky

Niall MacGinnis as Levin

Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet.

The Plunderers

1948

English

6.0

♡ 3

Joseph Kane Director

Ilona Massey as Lin Connor

Hank Patterson as Stage Manager

Herman Hack as Townsman

Forrest Tucker as Whit Lacey

Hero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses in the opening of this Republic Pictures Western, released in the company's patented Trucolor system. The "killing," however, is merely a ruse set up to allow army agent Johnny Drum to infiltrate a gang of highway robbers.

The Loves of Carmen

1948

English

6.1

♡ 2

50%

Charles Vidor Director

Luther Adler as Dancaire

Victor Jory as García

Trevor Bardette as Lucas' Footman

Alma Beltran as Trinket Seller

Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

1948

English

6.5

♡ 2

43%

William Nigh Director

Rory Mallinson as Harry - 1st Detective

John Elliott as Mr. Lake - Tom's Lawyer

Regis Toomey as Police Inspector Clint Judd

Bill Walker as Prisoner

An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real perpetrator.

Blonde Ice

1948

English

6.0

♡ 3

27%

airplane

alibi

based on novel or book

san francisco, california

Jack Bernhard Director

John Holland as Carl Hanneman

Walter Sande as Hack Doyle

Rory Mallinson as Police Sgt. Benson

Jack Del Rio as Roberts - the Butler

A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.

Four Faces West

1948

English

7.0

♡ 3

71%

bank robbery

based on novel or book

Alfred E. Green Director

Paul Newlan as Deputy

Martin Garralaga as Florencio

Gene Roth as Poker Player

William Haade as Poker Player

Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him his six-gun collateral. The banker hands over the money in exchange for an I.O.U., signed "Jefferson Davis". McEwen rides out of town and catches a train, but not before being bitten by a rattler. On the train, a nurse, Miss Hollister, tends to his wound. A posse searches the train, but McEwen manages to escape notice. However a mysterious Mexican has taken note of the cowboy, and that loudmouthed brat is still nosing around. Who will be the first to claim the reward for the robber's capture?

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

1948

English

6.3

♡ 15

44%

underwater photography

Irving Pichel Director

Ann Blyth as Mermaid

William Powell as Mr. Arthur Peabody

Irene Hervey as Mrs. Polly Peabody

Mary Field as Wee Shop Clerk

As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, a middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches...a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that the thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish.

Sorry, Wrong Number

1948

English

7.3

♡ 11

86%

husband wife relationship

Anatole Litvak Director

Joyce Compton as Cotterell's Blonde Girlfriend

Amzie Strickland as Dance Team Member

Wendell Corey as Dr. Philip Alexander

Dorothy Neumann as Elizabeth Jennings

Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.

Moonrise

1948

English

7.0

♡ 10

100%

Frank Borzage Director

Dane Clark as Danny Hawkins

Irving Bacon as Judd Jenkins

Amzie Strickland as Minor Role

William A. Boardway as Townsman

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.

The Terrible Parents

1948

French

6.9

♡ 6

100%

Jean Cocteau Director

Marcel André as Georges

Josette Day as Madeleine

Jean Marais as Michel

Jean Cocteau as Narrator

Young Michel is in love with the attractive Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her. He thinks his announcement is innocent enough; his engagement, however, threatens to reveal dark secrets lurking within his family's home. Yvonne, Michel's overbearing mother, concocts an elaborate scheme to drive Madeleine away, thus keeping uncomfortable household truths from being exposed.

The Snake Pit

1948

English

7.5

♡ 17

100%

Anatole Litvak Director

Lee Patrick as Asylum Inmate

Dorothy Neumann as Champion - Miss Neumann

Barbara Pepper as Patient

Ann Doran as Valerie

Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.

No Orchids for Miss Blandish

1948

English

6.0

♡ 5

33%

St. John Legh Clowes Director

Michael Balfour as Barney

Walter Gotell as Joe - Nightclub Doorman

Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Nightclub Patron

Harold Kasket as (uncredited)

A sheltered heiress is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods.

Cry of the City

1948

English

7.2

♡ 9

93%

Robert Siodmak Director

Tom Moore as Doctor

Robert Adler as Man

Richard Conte as Martin Rome

Walter Baldwin as Orvy

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?

The Winslow Boy

1948

English

7.6

♡ 5

74%

Action

based on play or musical

Anthony Asquith Director

Margaret Leighton as Catherine Winslow

Cyril Ritchard as Cyril Ritchard

Basil Radford as Desmond Curry

Jack Watling as Dickie Winslow

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

This Was a Woman

1948

English

6.8

♡ 4

Action

Crime

Drama

Tim Whelan Director

Scott Forbes as Dr. Valentine Christie

Barbara White as Fenella Russell

Joan Hickson as Miss Johnson

Lesley Osmond as Sally

The woman here is Sylvia Russell: power mad with set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, able to possess and direct them. She subtly ruins her daughter's marriage by corrupting a servant girl and, then, uses her to compromise her son-in-law; slowly breaks her bumbling, unambitious husband's confidence...

Furnival and Son

1948

English

5.4

♡ 4

Action

Documentary

Drama

Denis Segaller Director

Story of work in a cutlery manufacturing firm in Sheffield told through story of the son who enters the business.

The Eleven O'Clock Woman

1948

French

6.5

♡ 1

Action

Mystery

Thriller

Jean Devaivre Director

Junie Astor as Hélène Tassin - l'infirmière

Jean Debucourt as Le docteur Vermeulen Palau

Palau as Le portier

Marc Arian as Petit rôle

Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is committed. SOS begins to investigate...

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Words and Music

Johnny Belinda

Test Tube Babies

Anna Karenina

The Plunderers

The Loves of Carmen

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

Blonde Ice

Four Faces West

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

Sorry, Wrong Number

Moonrise

The Terrible Parents

The Snake Pit

No Orchids for Miss Blandish

Cry of the City

The Winslow Boy

This Was a Woman

Furnival and Son

The Eleven O'Clock Woman