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Tag: 1949

Film Review Retrospective

ADAM’S RIB (1949)

A woman's attempted murder of her husband results in quarrels in the lives of a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.

by Conall McManus 15th November 202415th November 2024
Film Review Retrospective

STRAY DOG (1949)

A rookie homicide detective tries to find his stolen Colt pistol during a sweltering summer.

by Conall McManus 17th October 202417th October 2024
Film Review Retrospective

LATE SPRING (1949)

Several people try to talk a 27-year-old woman into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.

by Conall McManus 23rd September 202423rd September 2024
Film Review Retrospective

THE THIRD MAN (1949)

A pulp novelist travels to shadowy, post-war Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend...

by Conall McManus 2nd September 20242nd September 2024
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THE SMALL BACK ROOM (1949)

A troubled scientist in wartime England has to contend with his personal demons at the same time as a mysterious new German weapon

by Barnaby Page 8th June 20248th June 2024
champion (1949)
Film Review Physical Media

CHAMPION (1949)

In the USA of the 1940s, a boxer’s rise to success in the ring is paralleled by increasing conflict in his private life

by Barnaby Page 6th December 202112th December 2021
invisible man appears / vs. the human fly
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THE INVISIBLE MAN APPEARS (1949) • THE INVISIBLE MAN vs. THE HUMAN FLY (1957)

Two unique Japanese riffs on H.G Wells’ classic character, also indebted to Universal’s iconic film series...

by Devon Elson 12th March 202115th March 2021
criss cross (1949)
Film Review

CRISS CROSS (1949)

An armoured truck driver and his ex-wife conspire with a gang to have his own truck robbed.

by Tom Trott 25th June 202012th February 2021
Film Review Retrospective

WHITE HEAT (1949)

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist...

by Remy Dean 31st August 201925th March 2025
kind hearts and coronets
Film Review

KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (1949)

A distant poor relative of the Duke of D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

by Frank Collins 30th June 20194th August 2019
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