Year: 1948
Country: USA
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod
Directors: William A. Wellman
Actors: James Barton, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Harry Morgan, Gregory Peck, John Russell, Robert Arthur
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 (1499 votes)
A band of bank robbers on the run from a posse flee into the desert. Near death from lack of water they stumble into what appears to be a ghost town, only to discover an old prospector and his granddaughter living there. The robbers discover that the old man has been mining gold and set out to make a quick fortune by robbing the pair. Their plan runs foul when the gang leader, Stretch, falls for the granddaughter, which sets off a showdown between the entire gang.
Genres: Action, Adventure, Western
Year: 1948
Country: USA
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Directors: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
Actors: Montgomery Clift, John Wayne, John Ireland, Walter Brennan, Harry Carey Jr., Paul Fix, Hank Worden
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 (12386 votes)
Tom Dunson builds a cattle empire with his adopted son Matthew Garth. Together they begin a massive cattle drive north from Texas to the Missouri railhead. But on the way, new information and Dunson's tyrannical ways cause Matthew to take the herd away from Dunson and head to a new railhead in Kansas. Dunson, swearing vengeance, pursues.
Genres: Crime, Adventure, Drama
Year: 1948
Country: UK
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Directors: David Lean
Actors: Alec Guinness, Kathleen Harrison, Anthony Newley, Henry Stephenson, Francis L. Sullivan, Gibb McLaughlin, Ralph Truman
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 (5566 votes)
Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London...
Year: 1948
Country: USA
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Directors: Billy Wilder
Actors: Boyd Davis, William Murphy, Robert Malcolm, Marlene Dietrich, Millard Mitchell, Jean Arthur, Charles Meredith
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 (1921 votes)
A congressional committee visits occupied Berlin to investigate G.I. morals. Congresswoman Phoebe Frost, appalled at widespread evidence of human frailty, hears rumors that cafe singer Erika, former mistress of a wanted war criminal, is "protected" by an American officer, and enlists Captain John Pringle to help her find him...not knowing that Pringle is Erika's lover.
Year: 1948
Country: USA
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
Directors: Edward Bernds
Actors: Kenneth MacDonald, Shemp Howard, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Christine McIntyre, Charles C. Wilson, Lester Allen Lester Allen
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 (130 votes)
The stooges are janitors working in a newspaper office. When an anonymous caller phones in a tip about the theft a famous diamond, the boys decide to become reporters and go after the crooks. They find the crooks, but Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond which was hidden in a bowl of candy. The crooks want to cut the diamond out, but the boys foil them with the help of a friendly gorilla.
Year: 1948
Country: USA
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
Directors: Jules White
Actors: Shemp Howard, Philip Van Zandt, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Vernon Dent, Virginia Hunter
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 (99 votes)
The stooges are musicians at the court of King Cole. When they ask the king's permission to marry their sweethearts, the King agrees, but only after Princess Alicia has married Prince Valiant. This news upsets Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry the Princess himself and rule the Kingdom. Mergatroyd abducts the Princess, and it's up to the stooges to foil his plans and expose his evil doings.
Year: 1948
Country: USA
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
Directors: Jules White
Actors: Shemp Howard, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Sam McDaniel, Vernon Dent
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 (117 votes)
Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry's sales pitch, but it looks he's headed for the fires below anyway.
Year: 1948
Country: USA
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
Directors: Del Lord
Actors: Kenneth MacDonald, Shemp Howard, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Christine McIntyre, Vernon Dent, Frank Lackteen
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 (158 votes)
The stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed but are now the only ones who can identify the crooks. Meanwhile, their friend Gladys has inherited a house in the country and the boys go with her to inspect it so she won't be gypped when its sold. The house turns out to be the crook's hideout, and when they abduct Gladys, the stooges must rescue her.
Genres: Drama
Year: 1948
Country: USA, Switzerland
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Directors: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Montgomery Clift, Wendell Corey, Aline MacMahon, Mary Patton, Jarmila Novotna, Ewart G. Morrison, William Rogers
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 (1615 votes)
A silent nine-year-old Czech boy, a survivor of Auschwitz, flees a refugee center in postwar Germany and is found by an American G.I. At the same time, the boy's mother, the sole surviving member of his family, searches refugee centers for her son. Time, distance, and the massive numbers of refugee children are factors hampering the reunion of mother and son.
Genres: Drama
Year: 1948
Country: UK
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Directors: Laurence Olivier
Actors: Anthony Quayle, Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier, Niall MacGinnis, Patrick Troughton, Norman Wooland, Basil Sydney
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 (6456 votes)
William Shakespeare's tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes the throne, taking the widowed Gertrude for his bride. Hamlet, son of the murdered King, mournful of his father's death and mother's hasty marriage, is confronted by the ghost of the late King who reveals the manner of his murder. Seeking revenge, Hamlet recreates the monstrous deed in a play with the help of some traveling actors to torment the conscience of the evil Claudius. In a visit with his mother, Hamlet expresses his anger and disappointment concern...
Genres: Western
Year: 1948
Country: USA
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Directors: John Ford
Actors: John Wayne, Ward Bond, Henry Fonda, Guy Kibbee, Anna Lee, Pedro Armendáriz, Jack Pennick
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 (6820 votes)
In John Ford's sombre exploration mythologising of American heroes, he slowly reveals the character of Owen Thursday, who sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, Thursday attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.
Year: 1948
Country: USA
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Directors: John Ford
Actors: John Wayne, Ward Bond, Harry Carey Jr., Mildred Natwick, Ben Johnson, Hank Worden, Michael Dugan
IMDB Rating: 7/10 (3498 votes)
Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance, Drama
Year: 1948
Country: USA
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Directors: Edward Ludwig
Actors: John Wayne, Jeff Corey, Paul Fix, Dennis Hoey, Erskine Sanford, Gig Young, Henry Daniell
IMDB Rating: 6.5/10 (1046 votes)
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
Year: 1948
Country: USA
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Directors: Raoul Walsh
Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Jack Larson, Henry Hull, Arthur Space, Robert Stack, James Holden, Jeff Richards
IMDB Rating: 6.2/10 (303 votes)
At an American air base in England, 1943, is conniving Sergeant Dolan, who manipulates everyone, and insubordinate ace fighter pilot Major Ed Hardin. When Ed is promoted to commander of his group, he must fight his former anti-authority stance as well as the enemy; tension grows as D-Day approaches. Generally lighthearted between moments of technicolor gore; lots of air combat footage, much of it genuine.
Genres: Action, Thriller, Romance, Drama, Film-Noir
Year: 1948
Country: USA
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Directors: Jean Negulesco
Actors: Richard Widmark, O.Z. Whitehead, Grandon Rhodes, Ida Lupino, Ian MacDonald, Robert Karnes, Cornel Wilde
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 (877 votes)
Jefty, owner of a roadhouse in a backwoods town, hires sultry, tough-talking torch singer Lily Stevens against the advice of his manager Pete Morgan. Jefty is smitten with Lily, who in turn exerts her charms on the more resistant Pete. When Pete finally falls for her and she turns down Jefty's marriage proposal, they must face Jefty's murderous jealousy and his twisted plots to "punish" the two.
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1948
Country: UK
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Directors: Alfred Roome
Actors: George Cole, John Boxer, Maurice Denham, Wilfrid Hyde-White, David Tomlinson, Jane Hylton, Brenda Bruce
IMDB Rating: 6.3/10 (80 votes)
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from prison, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police, and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.
Genres: Action, Romance, Western
Year: 1948
Country: USA
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Directors: Lesley Selander
Actors: Francis McDonald, Alex Gerry, Charles Judels, Dick Crockett, Henry Hall, J. Farrell MacDonald, Jeff York
IMDB Rating: 6.1/10 (46 votes)
John Sands, a former Texas marshal turns to ranching, and later to a gunfighter when he sets out to prove that casino/saloon owner, Matt Garson, had his brother, a newspaperman, killed.
Genres: Western
Year: 1948
Country: USA
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Directors: Lesley Selander
Actors: William Phipps, Kenneth MacDonald, Jack Lambert, Wallace Ford, J. Farrell MacDonald, George Montgomery, Isabel Jewell
IMDB Rating: 5.4/10 (40 votes)
The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer.
Genres: Western
Year: 1948
Country: USA
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Directors: Joseph Kane
Actors: Taylor Holmes, Paul Fix, George Cleveland, Russell Hicks, James Flavin, Forrest Tucker, Francis Ford
IMDB Rating: 5.8/10 (54 votes)
Cavalry officer John Drum attempts to track down outlaw Whit Lacey, but finds he must join forces with Lacey to fight a Sioux war party.
Year: 1948
Country: USA
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Directors: Norman Z. McLeod
Actors: Wade Crosby, Bob Hope, Robert Armstrong, Jane Russell, Iris Adrian, Jeff York, Charles Trowbridge
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 (1616 votes)
Someone is selling guns to the Indians and in order to find the culprit Calamity Jane and a secret agent go undercover posing as man and wife. When the agent is killed Jane recruits a new husband -- none other than innocent dupe "Painless" Peter Potter, a totally inept dentist and confirmed coward who's main goal is to leave the barbaric west far behind. When their wagon train is attacked by the Indians it's Jane's sharpshooting that saves the day, but she gives the credit to Potter making him an instant hero to the townspeople and instant target to both the Indians and the gunrunners.
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