FR #684 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, Dutch
Director
George Seaton
Writer
George Seaton, Valentine Davies
Cast
Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Gene Lockhart, Jerome Cowan
Plot
After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mis...
A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.
Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons
Plot
A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.
FR #4212 | Movie | Comedy, Short | France | French
Director
Jacques Tati
Writer
Jacques Tati
Cast
Jacques Tati, Paul Demange
Plot
School for Postmen" is a 1947 short film directed and starring Jacques Tati, playing a French postman adamant to prove he can be just as fast as American postmen at delivering mail.
FR #4440 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts
Writer
Joe Rinaldi, Bill Peet, Homer Brightman
Cast
Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig, Paul Frees, James Macdonald
Plot
A mysterious thief has stolen the prosperous Happy Valley's most prized possession: the musical Singing Harp. Can Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find the answer in the irritable Willie the Giant's magnificent castle up in the blue sky?
Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark, Karl Malden
Plot
A thief arrested for a jewelry heist initially refuses to give up his accomplices, but he changes his mind after his wife dies under mysterious circumstances.
FR #5389 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Japan | Japanese
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Writer
Akira Kurosawa, Keinosuke Uekusa
Cast
Isao Numasaki, Chieko Nakakita, Atsushi Watanabe
Plot
During a Sunday trip into war-ravaged Tokyo, despairing Yuzo and optimistic Masako look for work and lodging, as well as affordable entertainments to pass the time.
Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger, Alan Hale
Plot
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.
FR #5716 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Mexico, USA | Spanish; Castilian, Spanish
Director
Ismael Rodriguez
Writer
Rogelio A. Gonzalez, Fernando Mendez, Carlos Orellana
Cast
Sara Garcia, Pedro Infante, Abel Salazar
Plot
Ruled by a tough grandma (Sara GarcÃa), the GarcÃas (Infante, Salazar and Mendoza) are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita (Marga López) and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
FR #5958 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Portugal | Portuguese
Director
Arthur Duarte
Writer
Joao Bastos, Felix Bermudes, Ernesto Rodrigues
Cast
Antonio Silva, Milu, Maria Eugenia
Plot
Anastácio lives in Lisbon and is fanatic for Sporting, one of the city's football teams. When the team travels to face Porto, he follows it with the family, staying in house of his friend, Mr. Barata, pretending to be rich.
FR #7211 | Movie | Animation, Adventure | USA | English
Director
Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, William Morgan
Writer
Homer Brightman, Harry Reeves, Ted Sears
Cast
Edgar Bergen, Dinah Shore, Luana Patten, Clarence Nash, Clarence Nash
Plot
Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: "Bongo," about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and "Mickey and the Beanstalk," a take on the famous fairy tale.
FR #7219 | Movie | Biography, Drama | France, Mexico | French, Spanish
Director
Maurice Cloche
Writer
Jean Bernard-Luc, Jean Anouilh, Maurice Cloche
Cast
Pierre Fresnay, Aime Clariond, Jean Debucourt
Plot
St. Vincent de Paul struggles to bring about peace and harmony among peasants and nobles in the midst of the Black Death in Europe, carrying on his charitable work in the face of all obstacles.
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell
Plot
Nick and Nora Charles are on a gambling boat when someone is murdered. The two main suspects are at large and come to Nick for help. Nick turns them in to the police but then sets out to figure out the mystery.
FR #7473 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France | French
Director
Jacques Becker
Writer
Jacques Becker, Maurice Griffe, Francoise Giroud
Cast
Roger Pigaut, Claire Maffei, Noel Roquevert
Plot
Working class couple Antoine and Antoinette dream of a better life. In the midst of constantly fending off the unwanted attention of men, especially the grocer Monsieur Roland, Antoinette purchases a winning lottery ticket. But wh...
FR #7702 | Movie | Drama | Hungary, USA | Hungarian, English
Director
Geza Von Radvanyi
Writer
Bela Balazs, Judit Fejer, Felix Mariassy
Cast
Artur Somlay, Miklos Gabor, Zsuzsa Banki
Plot
A band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. They invade and then taken in by a musician and former concert pianist who's hiding out in a ruined castle. After the initial altercati...
Quirt Evans, an all round bad guy, is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth, a Quaker girl. He eventually finds himself having to choose between his world and the world Penelope lives in.
In a village in Brittany, a young maid and an old woman are spinning while the wind blows threateningly outdoors. In spite of the bad omen, the young maid's boyfriend decides to sail away. Worried, the young maid ask for help to a...
In the royal court of Janakgarh Mangal Singh revolts against his sisters husband Maharana Pragat Singh they escape in a temple to save their lives.The prince and his wife is killed by Mangal while his elder daughter manages to esc...
Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Raskin, Moris Slobodskoy
Cast
Lyubov Orlova, Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolai Konovalov
Plot
A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer look-alike being courted to play her in a movie swap identities and find personal growth, professional success, love, and happiness.
Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce
Plot
An artist forms an attachment with a woman on holiday in the country. As the relationship develops, his behavior and information about his past cause her increasing concern.
FR #8949 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Irving Pichel
Writer
Jonathan Latimer, Gordon Mcdonell
Cast
Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer
Plot
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.
FR #9189 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | USA | English, Portuguese
Director
Norman Z. Mcleod
Writer
Edmund Beloin, Jack Rose, Barney Dean
Cast
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Barrat
Plot
Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter.
FR #9992 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Italy, UK | Italian, English
Director
Luigi Zampa
Writer
Piero Tellini, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Luigi Zampa
Cast
Anna Magnani, Nando Bruno, Ave Ninchi
Plot
A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and le...
FR #10193 | Movie | Crime, Action | USA, Mexico | English, Spanish
Director
John Ford, Emilio Fernandez
Writer
Dudley Nichols, Graham Greene, Louis Sauvat
Cast
Henry Fonda, Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendariz, J. Carrol Naish, Ward Bond, John Qualen
Plot
Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.
A dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a 'light' and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to bed less empty than before.
FR #10213 | Movie | Drama, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Shaukat Hussain Rizvi
Cast
Dilip Kumar, Noor Jehan, Shashikala Jawalkar, Agha
Plot
Suraj (Dilip Kumar) and Jugnu (Noor Jehan) study in the same college and fall in love. Jugnu's parents died when she was young, and her father's friend, whom she calls Chachaji, looks after her college and other expenses. Suraj be...
FR #10228 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA, France | French
Director
Rene Clair
Writer
Rene Clair
Cast
Maurice Chevalier, Francois Perier, Marcelle Derrien
Plot
1910. A friend leaves his daughter, Madeleine, with Emile a French film producer. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his young friend Jacques returns from military service complaining his misfortune with women. Onc...
FR #10444 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Robert Montgomery
Writer
Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer, Dorothy B. Hughes
Cast
Robert Montgomery, Thomas Gomez, Wanda Hendrix
Plot
WW2 veteran Lucky Gagin arrives in a New Mexico border-town intent on revenging against mobster Frank Hugo but FBI agent Bill Retz, who also wants Hugo, tries to keep Gagin out of trouble.
FR #10453 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
Director
Cecil B. Demille
Writer
Charles Bennett, Fredric M. Frank, Jesse Lasky Jr.
Cast
Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway, Ward Bond, C. Aubrey Smith
Plot
Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.
FR #10463 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA, India | English
Director
Tex Avery
Writer
Heck Allen
Cast
Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Pinto Colvig
Plot
A mangy cat on the verge of starvation finds a tiny canary and a bottle of 'Jumbo-Gro' fertilizer, which gives him an idea that leads to giant cats, dogs, mice and canaries chasing each other round Lilliputian towns and cities...
FR #10699 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Jack Hannah
Writer
Dick Kinney, Bob North
Cast
James Macdonald, Dessie Flynn, Clarence Nash
Plot
Donald needs a log for his fire. Unfortunately, the one he picks is occupied by a couple of chipmunks and their stash of acorns. When he cuts it down, Chip and Dale fall out, but their acorns stay behind, so they work at putting o...
FR #10709 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English
Director
Chester Erskine
Writer
Betty Macdonald, Chester Erskine, Fred F. Finklehoffe
Cast
Claudette Colbert, Fred Macmurray, Marjorie Main
Plot
On their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob.
Martin and Frida married solely because she was pregnant. Later he would have a passionate side-affair with Rut. Rut's sexual feelings were highly neurotic because she had been sexually abused by her stepfather. When the chimney s...
After WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black-market smugglers-thieves but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught , framed for a policeman's murder, and is sent to prison where he plots his escape and revenge.
FR #11961 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Delmer Daves
Writer
George Agnew Chamberlain, Delmer Daves, Albert Maltz
Cast
Edward G. Robinson, Lon Mccallister, Judith Anderson
Plot
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
FR #11986 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Mexico | Spanish, Spanish; Castilian
Director
Roberto Gavaldon
Writer
Edmundo Baez, Alfredo B. Crevenna, Tito Davison
Cast
Maria Felix, Arturo De Cordova, Rosario Granados
Plot
A artist model who leads the ever hapless Arturo de Córdova away from the arms of his innocent, blue-eyed wife and down, down, down into the ecstatic depths of degradation which include a stop at seedy Panamanian nightclub.
FR #12465 | Movie | Comedy, Action | USA | English
Director
Charles Barton
Writer
John Grant, Frederic I. Rinaldo, Robert Lees
Cast
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Tom Brown
Plot
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 ...
FR #12987 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, UK | French, English
Director
Henri Decoin
Writer
Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon
Cast
Michel Simon, Jany Holt, Jean Wall
Plot
An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he resolves to correct the miseries of his life.
FR #13186 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Cast
William Hanna
Plot
It's a grand day at the beach for Tom and his girlfriend Toots - that is, until Jerry shows up (and, for a while, gets a rather vicious crab involved as well).
FR #13192 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Vincent Sherman
Writer
N. Richard Nash, Paul Webster, Jack Sobell
Cast
Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett
Plot
A doctor spins an ever-growing web of lies after a taste of the excitement that he was missing in his conventional life, thanks to a chance meeting with a nightclub singer.
FR #13193 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English, French
Director
Henry Hathaway
Writer
John Monks Jr., Sy Bartlett
Cast
James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte
Plot
When spy chief Bob Sharkey finds out one of his agents-in-training is actually a Nazi double agent, his strategic decision not to arrest him results in tragedy.
FR #13716 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | India | Hindi
Director
Mohan Sinha
Writer
Y.N. Joshi, Munshi Khanjar, Mohan Sinha
Cast
Raj Kapoor, Madhubala, Shyam Sunder, Badri Prasad
Plot
A comic tale of a poet and his fan both in love with each other and relentless efforts by his would be father in law to not let them marry each other. Instead, he wants his daughter to be married to the poet's friend.
FR #14229 | Movie | War, Drama | Italy | English, German
Director
Luigi Zampa
Writer
Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Piero Tellini, Luigi Zampa
Cast
Aldo Fabrizi, Gar Moore, Mirella Monti
Plot
The peaceful, almost idyllic life of an Italian village is interrupted during the war by the appearance of two American soldiers who keep hiding in the house of one of the villagers.
After a brain-damaged war veteran confesses to murdering his wife and is sent to a psychiatric hospital, a sympathetic doctor tries to lead him to recover his memory of events as he begins to question his guilt.
Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field, Richard Basehart
Plot
On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she ant...
Thomas the cat finds Tweety in the snow, warming himself by a cigar butt. Thomas's mistress rescues the little yellow bird before her cat can devour him, but Thomas doesn't give up.
