1947 Archives - Page 3 of 3

The Guilt of Janet Ames

A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.

1947 Adventure 141 min Play

1947 Drama 83 min Play

Green Dolphin Street

Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and Edmund helps him flee to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a ...

6.6

They Made Me a Fugitive

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

6.6

1947 Crime 99 min Play

The Kneeling Goddess

Legendary superstar María Félix, stars in this melodrama noir playing the role of Raquel, a woman who has a passionate love affair with married aristocrat Antonio. However, a sensual sculpture untitled “The Kneeling Goddess” and modeled after Raquel will lead Antonio down a memory lane he'd rather soon forget.

1947 Crime 107 min Play

5.4

Phoenix

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

5.4

1947 Drama 82 min Play

7.6

Quai des Orfèvres

Jenny Lamour sings in a music hall in postwar Paris, accompanied by her husband, Maurice Martineau, on piano. When Martineau notices his wife flirting with an older businessman named Georges Brignon, he follows her to Brignon's house with the intent to kill him. At the house, Brignon is found murdered -- but by someone else. Inspector Antoine conducts an investigation that implicates Martineau, whose planned alibi comes loose.

7.6

1947 Crime 110 min Play

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

1947 Comedy 116 min Play

It Happened in Brooklyn

Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds that Brooklyn is not so nice after all. He is able to share a place with Nick, the janitor of his old High School, and get a job as a singer in a music store. He also meets Leo, a talented pianist and his teacher Anne, whose dream is to singing Opera. When Jamie arrives from England, Danny tries to show him the Brooklyn experience and help him compose ...

1947 Comedy 104 min Play

Mine Own Executioner

Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.

1947 Adventure 82 min Play

1947 Drama 108 min Play

6.1

Hue and Cry

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.

6.1

6.7

They Won’t Believe Me

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

6.7

1947 Drama 95 min Play

Humoresque

A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

1947 Drama 125 min Play

A Guest Is Coming

It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered.

1947 71 min Play

Desire Me

A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.

1947 Drama 91 min Play

7.3

Dark Passage

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

7.3

1947 Crime 106 min Play

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 ...

1947 Comedy 109 min Play

6.3

Buck Privates Come Home

Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.

6.3

1947 Comedy 77 min Play

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, but his troubled past follows him.

1947 Romance 100 min Play

The Egg and I

World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.