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The Fraeon Archive · The 1940s
19461948

1947

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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Miracle on 34th Street

Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.

3.7

Miracle on 34th Street

1947

Fun and Fancy Free

Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale.

3.1

Fun and Fancy Free

1947

Out of the Past

The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

3.8

Out of the Past

1947

Brute Force

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?

3.7

Brute Force

1947

Nightmare Alley

A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.

3.6

Nightmare Alley

1947

Unconquered

England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.

3.3

Unconquered

1947

Black Narcissus

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.

3.8

Black Narcissus

1947

The Lady from Shanghai

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

3.7

The Lady from Shanghai

1947

Dark Passage

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

3.7

Dark Passage

1947

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.

3.8

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1947

The Bishop's Wife

An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.

3.5

The Bishop's Wife

1947

Gentleman's Agreement

A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.

3.5

Gentleman's Agreement

1947

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.

3.4

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

1947

Angel and the Badman

Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family and their faith, but his troubled past follows him.

3.2

Angel and the Badman

1947

Kiss of Death

An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

3.5

Kiss of Death

1947

Mickey and the Beanstalk

A mysterious thief has stolen the prosperous Happy Valley's most prized possession: the musical Singing Harp. Can Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find the answer in the irritable Willie the Giant's magnificent castle up in the blue sky?

3.4

Mickey and the Beanstalk

1947

The Invisible Mouse

Tom chases Jerry into a bottle of invisible ink, and the now-invisible Jerry proceeds to have fun torturing Tom.

3.6

The Invisible Mouse

1947

The Paradine Case

In London, barrister Anthony Keane takes the case of Maddalena Paradine, a beautiful woman accused of poisoning her blind husband. Though happily married, Keane becomes infatuated with his enigmatic client and convinced of her innocence. His obsession clouds his judgment as he builds a defense implicating her servant, André Latour—an act that leads to devastating consequences both in court and at home.

3.1

The Paradine Case

1947

What the critics kept

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Monsieur Verdoux

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

3.8

Monsieur Verdoux

1947

Hidden gems of 1947loved by the few who found them

The Three Garcías

Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.

4.0

The Three Garcías

1947

¡A volar, joven!

Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.

4.0

¡A volar, joven!

1947

The Cat Concerto

Tom Cat is a concert pianist who plays beautifully until he is interrupted by Jerry Mouse.

3.8

The Cat Concerto

1947

Jenny Lamour

Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.

3.8

Jenny Lamour

1947

Cat Fishin'

Tom is a feline fisherman, Jerry is his live bait, and Spike is the bulldog guarding the lake.

3.7

Cat Fishin'

1947

Panic

Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town and discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him.

3.7

Panic

1947

Odd Man Out

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

3.6

Odd Man Out

1947

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse

Tom, sick of Jerry stealing the milk out of his bowl, poisons it. Instead of killing the mouse, the potion transforms him into a muscular beast.

3.6

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse

1947

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

A hard-hearted old woman in a bombed-out Tokyo neighborhood reluctantly takes in an abandoned boy, leading to a heartwarming bond between them.

3.6

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

1947

Ride the Pink Horse

A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.

3.6

Ride the Pink Horse

1947

One Wonderful Sunday

Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase housing, small pleasures, and a little hope.

3.6

One Wonderful Sunday

1947

On the page

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Goodnight Moon

Children's fiction · Picture books

Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown

1947

Se questo è un uomo

Auschwitz (Concentration camp) · World War, 1939-1945

Se questo è un uomo

Primo Levi

1947

The Labours of Hercules

Fiction · Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)

The Labours of Hercules

Agatha Christie

1947

Wonder Book

Fiction, fantasy, general · Art

Wonder Book

Nathaniel Hawthorne

1947

A Streetcar Named Desire

Drama · Married people

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

1947

Doctor Faustus

Fiction · History

Doctor Faustus

Thomas Mann

1947

زقاق المدق

Fiction · Arabic fiction

زقاق المدق

نجيب محفوظ

1947

Edison's conquest of Mars

Fiction · American literature

Edison's conquest of Mars

Garrett Putman Serviss

1947

Man for Himself

Ethics · Humanistic ethics

Man for Himself

Erich Fromm

1947

Kandinsky

Abstract Art · Abstract Painting

Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky

1947

Kingsblood royal

Race relations · Racially mixed people

Kingsblood royal

Sinclair Lewis

1947

The Wayward Bus

John Steinbeck · Nobel Prize winner

The Wayward Bus

John Steinbeck

1947

Under the Volcano

Alcoholics · Alcoholism

Under the Volcano

Malcolm Lowry

1947

Oskar Kokoschka

Ancient Art · Austrian Portrait painting

Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka

1947

4th of July

Fiction · Police

4th of July

James Patterson

1947

From slavery to freedom

African Americans · Afro-Americans

From slavery to freedom

John Hope Franklin

1947

The Chequer Board

England · Nevil Shute

The Chequer Board

Nevil Shute

1947

The Last Days of Hitler

Biography · Heads of state

The Last Days of Hitler

H. R. Trevor-Roper

1947

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