1949 Movies

Released a few months after the Italian The Passion According to St. Mathew, this Austrian film is, like the earlier effort, based on a theatre piece....

Biography of the famous saint of Portuguese origin recalled from the readings of a young boy who one day goes to church with his mother to pray for th...

Two lovers are separated by the girl's conniving uncle, who marries her off to another man. Heartbroken, the man wanders around aimlessly until a comm...

Living a life of privilege in post-colonial India, wealthy young Prem Shankar faces a crisis when his businessman father insists on an arranged marria...

This entry of Screen Snapshots travels to Las Vegas, Nevada, and Ralph Staub visits and talks to many Hollywood notables as they arrive at the famed g...

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Luis el Roto is a laborer who, due to a lack of money, cannot marry his girlfriend Rosa; they live in a poor alleyway with their respective mothers. L...

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

On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb. Locals heard a roar, followed by the earth shaking, the walls of clay houses breaki...

A documentary that follows the flight of a BOAC Lancastrian airliner travelling from London to Sydney that offers some observations from the passenger...

Armande, the wife of surgeon Colbert, has numerous love affairs and pursues Jacques, whom Armande’s girlfriend Liliane has in her sights.

Project X was one of a cycle of anti-Red films produced in the late 1940s. Keith Andes plays an ex-Communist who is strongarmed into cooperating with...

Hoda, a student, lives in Port Said with her widowed father, Fathy Al-Mahdawi, the owner of a supply and export company. Naima, an employee in the com...

The three bears try to train to become vaudeville stars, but things do not go well for Pa Bear.

The first of Monogram's "Father" series was Henry, the Rainmaker, assembled in a fast seven days. Henry Latham is an average family man who is galvani...

Snow Carnival is a 1949 short documentary film narrated by Gary Cooper, and supervised by Gordon Hollingshead. It is about the snowy attractions of mi...

Two friends with opposite personalities, the rich but sensitive Pran and the womanizing Gopal both have affairs with two mountain girls while holidayi...

Adaptation of LYSISTRATA by Aristophanes

An embezzler is implicated in his girlfriend’s murder.