Movies 1949 Page 44

Tomoraka Tasaka's first postwar work.

An heiress suddenly vanishes! A detective comes to the forlorn mansion of the missing heiress's wheel-chair-ridden uncle to discover the secret...

Overly proper family man Walter Brinkmann is coaxed to a cabaret by free‐spirited friend Bernd. After a spoof of himself, Walter decides to embrace...

All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up, it is discovered that a quarter-million dollars is...

Directed by S.F. Hasnain, Duniya (1949) is a classic social drama from the golden era of Indian cinema. It explores themes of justice, class...

A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.

Hervé Montagne, a famous but awfully self-satisfied playwright, is furious when he learns that the actress signed to lead in his latest play will...

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...

Despite the title, the vehicles here are airplanes, not balloons. Bluto and Popeye are racing around the world; Bluto's got a sort of rocket plane,...

Everyone in Paris thinks Fantomas is dead. A wave of extortion, blackmail and murder all point to the master criminal. Inspector Juve and his...

A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.

Joe comes up with a complicated scheme to bilk his dead uncle out of an inheritance.

A film on family planning.

Failed TV pilot short which had an episode name of "Chapter One: The Lion Men of Tanganyika". The end of the short advertised another chapter, which...

A policeman infiltrates a gang of criminals.

A train journey from the Alps to the North Sea through post-war Germany.

Twin brothers separated at birth accidentally meet each other 25 years later. Girlfriends and coworkers are confounded, wacky hijinks!

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.

Redyk is a ceremonial exit of shepherds with sheep flocks to the mountains. The sheep graze there. The Great Redyk is a post-war propaganda film with...

Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is...

"They’re not so very different from our own people, are they?" A sensitive depiction of European workers in the UK.

Animated adaptation of "Twas the night before Christmas" by Clement Clarke Moore executed in a simple limited animation style including 3-D objects...

Produced by George Pal, "Birth of An Oil Field" was directed by Duke Goldstone and released in 1949 by the Shell Oil Company. This film, part of a...

Margie Blake, a young bride just back from her honeymoon, wants to impress her husband Tim by baking a delicious chocolate cake for his lunch. But...

Markopoulos called Lysis “a study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost, wandering, homosexual soul” and felt that the film foreshadowed...

Short documentary about the Voortrekker monument in Pretoria, South Africa. The film also tells the story of the Voortrekkers using clips from The...

Vignettes include "Man-Made Niagara", "Water on Dry Land", and "Under-Water Round-Up".

This Traveltalk series short begins with a look at Michigan's major educational institutions, which started as agricultural schools. We then visit...

How a child's emotional development normally keeps pace with his physical growth; the behaviour he exhibits at certain ages. This introductory film...

Winter comes to an end as a wood nymph plays his flute to Mendelsohn's "Spring Song".

An engineering feat: Second city civil engineers complete a new bridge to carry traffic over New Street's tangled railway intersections.

Cartoon on the fly nuisance, showing the dangers of food contamination and how the dangers can be minimised by food-protection and cleanliness that...

An African entourage makes a spectacular appearance in postwar London.

In this first short film magazine from Terrafilm, we get to take part in a powerful snowfall in the mountains and dramatic motorcyclists in...

A sing-song film, with the popular Four Gentlemen Quartet leading in four old favorites: Camptown Races, Bury Me Out on the Lone Prairie,...

This final John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short looks at a community, Mooseheart, in Illinois that orphaned children call home.

In the estuaries and lagoons of the Northern Territory, freshwater and saltwater crocodile are hunted for their hides by both Indigenous and...

Algernon Blackwood narrates his tale in this theatrical short film. Presumably lost.

The magpies decide to stow away aboard a luxury flight to Africa, and of course mayhem ensues.

Dick York plays a high-school track star whose running lags because of his lack of sleep.