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The Fraeon Archive · The 1940s
19451947

1946

Shadows and rain — noir's decade, wartime cinema, and some of the most enduring stories ever put on film.

The films everyone saw

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It's a Wonderful Life

George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.

4.1

It's a Wonderful Life

1946

The Big Sleep

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.

3.8

The Big Sleep

1946

Notorious

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.

3.9

Notorious

1946

Great Expectations

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

3.6

Great Expectations

1946

The Best Years of Our Lives

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.

3.9

The Best Years of Our Lives

1946

The Murderers Are Among Us

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apartment in bombed out Berlin. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.

3.5

The Murderers Are Among Us

1946

Duel in the Sun

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

3.2

Duel in the Sun

1946

A Matter of Life and Death

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

3.9

A Matter of Life and Death

1946

Beauty and the Beast

The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.

3.8

Beauty and the Beast

1946

My Darling Clementine

Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They decide to take revenge on the culprits.

3.8

My Darling Clementine

1946

Gilda

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

3.7

Gilda

1946

Shoeshine

Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.

3.9

Shoeshine

1946

Terror by Night

Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.

3.3

Terror by Night

1946

The Killers

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

3.7

The Killers

1946

Song of the South

Uncle Remus draws upon his tales of Br'er Rabbit to help little Johnny deal with his confusion over his parents' separation as well as his new life on the plantation.

3.3

Song of the South

1946

Make Mine Music

In the tradition of Fantasia, Make Mine Music is a glorious collection of musically charged animated shorts featuring such fun-filled favorites as "Peter and the Wolf", narrated by the beloved voice behind Winnie the Pooh. In addition you'll enjoy such classic cartoon hits as "Casey at the Bat," "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met" and "Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet."

2.9

Make Mine Music

1946

Solid Serenade

Tom ties up Spike and sneaks into the courtyard of the glamorous Toodles Galore with his bass, hoping to woo her with his song, much to the annoyance of a sleeping Jerry.

3.7

Solid Serenade

1946

The Postman Always Rings Twice

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

3.5

The Postman Always Rings Twice

1946

What the critics kept

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Paisan

Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces retreat.

3.8

Paisan

1946

The Stranger

An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.

3.6

The Stranger

1946

Hidden gems of 1946loved by the few who found them

Enamorada

In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.

3.9

Enamorada

1946

Soy un prófugo

A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.

3.8

Soy un prófugo

1946

A Day in the Country

The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

3.7

A Day in the Country

1946

Hair-Raising Hare

A sneaker-wearing, hairy monster chases Bugs through a castle belonging to an evil scientist.

3.6

Hair-Raising Hare

1946

Cluny Brown

Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.

3.6

Cluny Brown

1946

School for Postmen

Jacques Tati plays a French postman adamant to prove he can be just as fast as American postmen at delivering mail.

3.6

School for Postmen

1946

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.

3.5

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

1946

The Spiral Staircase

On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.

3.5

The Spiral Staircase

1946

The Dark Mirror

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

3.5

The Dark Mirror

1946

On the page

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Autobiography of a Yogi

Autobiography · Yogis

Autobiography of a Yogi

Yogananda Paramahansa

1946

The Odyssey

Greek Epic poetry · Translations into English

The Odyssey

Όμηρος

1946

... Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen

Nazi concentration camps · psychotherapy

... Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen

Viktor E. Frankl

1946

The Hollow

Fiction · Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)

The Hollow

Agatha Christie

1946

Leonardo

Exhibitions · Knowledge

Leonardo

Leonardo da Vinci

1946

На Дрини ћуприја (Na Drini ćuprija)

Historic bridges · History

На Дрини ћуприја (Na Drini ćuprija)

Ivo Andrić

1946

Constitutional law · Constitutions

Constituição (1967)

Brazil

1946

The Arabian Nights

Folklore, arab countries · Arabs

The Arabian Nights

Andrew Lang

1946

Future life · English Science fiction

Death into life

Olaf Stapledon

1946

4 Plays (Вишнёвый сад / Дядя Ваня / Три сестры / Чайка)

Translations into English · Russian drama

4 Plays (Вишнёвый сад / Дядя Ваня / Три сестры / Чайка)

Антон Павлович Чехов

1946

Escape on Venus (Carson Napier Adventures #4) (Ace SF Classic, 21561)

Fiction · Carson Napier (Fictitious character)

Escape on Venus (Carson Napier Adventures #4) (Ace SF Classic, 21561)

Edgar Rice Burroughs

1946

Dandelion Wine

Fiction · Boys

Dandelion Wine

Ray Bradbury

1946

Cristo si è fermato a Eboli

Social life and customs · Journeys

Cristo si è fermato a Eboli

Carlo Levi

1946

L' étrange défaite

World War, 1939-1945 · French Personal narratives

L' étrange défaite

Marc Bloch

1946

Código penal (1995)

Cases · Criminal law

Código penal (1995)

Spain.

1946

Mimesis

History and criticism · Literature

Mimesis

Erich Auerbach

1946

The House in Lordship Lane

Inspector Hanaud (fictional character) · mystery

The House in Lordship Lane

A. E. W. Mason

1946

Śmierć Miasta

Biography · Jews

Śmierć Miasta

Władysław Szpilman

1946

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