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The Fraeon Archive · The 1940s
19471949

1948

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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Bicycle Thieves

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

4.1

Bicycle Thieves

1948

Rope

Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

4.0

Rope

1948

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

3.8

Oliver Twist

1948

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.

4.0

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948

Red River

Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.

3.7

Red River

1948

The Three Musketeers

In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

3.4

The Three Musketeers

1948

Joan of Arc

In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.

3.1

Joan of Arc

1948

Spring in a Small Town

A married couple living in a desolate small town in post-WWII China are paid a surprise visit by an old friend of the husband's.

3.6

Spring in a Small Town

1948

3 Godfathers

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.

3.4

3 Godfathers

1948

Hamlet

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.

3.7

Hamlet

1948

Melody Time

In the grand tradition of Disney's great musical classics, Melody Time features seven timeless stories, each enhanced with high-spirited music and unforgettable characters. You'll be sure to tap your toes and clap your hands in this witty feast for the eyes and ears.

3.1

Melody Time

1948

The Red Shoes

A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.

4.0

The Red Shoes

1948

Fort Apache

Owen Thursday 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, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

3.5

Fort Apache

1948

Key Largo

A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.

3.7

Key Largo

1948

Macbeth

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth commits a treasonous act and takes the throne for himself.

3.6

Macbeth

1948

Portrait of Jennie

A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.

3.6

Portrait of Jennie

1948

The Naked City

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

3.6

The Naked City

1948

The Pirate

A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.

3.2

The Pirate

1948

What the critics kept

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Letter from an Unknown Woman

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.

3.9

Letter from an Unknown Woman

1948

Germany, Year Zero

In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.

3.8

Germany, Year Zero

1948

Drunken Angel

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward the swampy underworld he can’t escape.

3.8

Drunken Angel

1948

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.

3.6

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

1948

Hidden gems of 1948loved by the few who found them

Los tres huastecos

This is the story of three brothers - a priest, a soldier, and an outlaw - that are raised separately by their godfathers once their mother dies. They cross their paths again when the soldier and the priest move into two towns near the town the outlaw lives in. The drama will unfold once the three brothers meet each other.

4.1

Los tres huastecos

1948

We the Poor

Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.

4.1

We the Poor

1948

You the Rich

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.

3.9

You the Rich

1948

Scaredy Cat

Porky Pig and Sylvester the Cat spend the night in an old dark house, whose horrors only Sylvester sees.

3.8

Scaredy Cat

1948

The Big Clock

George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.

3.6

The Big Clock

1948

Unfaithfully Yours

Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his young wife, Daphne, during his absence. August has hired a private detective to keep tabs on her. But when the private eye's report suggests Daphne might have been canoodling with his secretary, Sir Alfred begins to imagine how he might take his revenge.

3.6

Unfaithfully Yours

1948

I Remember Mama

Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.

3.6

I Remember Mama

1948

The Fallen Idol

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His perception of the man changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.

3.6

The Fallen Idol

1948

On the page

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The Bell Jar

women college students · summer

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

1948

El túnel

Spanish fiction · Spanish language

El túnel

Ernesto Sabato

1948

Llana of Gathol (Mars #10)

John Carter (Fictitious character) · Fiction

Llana of Gathol (Mars #10)

Edgar Rice Burroughs

1948

The Franchise Affair (Inspector Alan Grant #3)

Fiction · mystery

The Franchise Affair (Inspector Alan Grant #3)

Josephine Tey

1948

The Loved One

British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author) · Fiction, humorous

The Loved One

Evelyn Waugh

1948

El Señor Presidente

Fiction · Politics and government

El Señor Presidente

Miguel Ángel Asturias

1948

Marc Chagall

collectionID:EarlyArt · Catalogues raisonnés

Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall

1948

The heart of the matter

Fiction · West africa in fiction

The heart of the matter

Graham Greene

1948

Taken at the Flood

Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character) · Fiction

Taken at the Flood

Agatha Christie

1948

Nine Stories

Fiction · Water Microbiology

Nine Stories

J. D. Salinger

1948

I Capture the Castle

Fiction · Castles

I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith

1948

Economics, an introductory analysis

Economics · Économie politique

Economics, an introductory analysis

Paul Anthony Samuelson

1948

Triplanetary

Fiction, general · Science fiction

Triplanetary

Edward E. Smith

1948

The gutter in the sky

Fiction · Gay men

The gutter in the sky

Jean Genet

1948

The Second World War, Vol. I

World War, 1939-1945 · Causes

The Second World War, Vol. I

Winston S. Churchill

1948

The magic of believing

Self-Help · Nonfiction

The magic of believing

Claude M. Bristol

1948

The black flame

American Science fiction · War and civilization

The black flame

Stanley G. Weinbaum

1948

No Highway

Aviation · Fiction

No Highway

Nevil Shute

1948

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