1949 Movies

"Il demoniaco nell'arte" is a 1949 short documentary film directed by Carlo Castelli Gattinara, with cinematography by a young Mario Bava and text and supervision by the philosopher of religion Enrico Castelli.

Harry tries to entertain a family of rich hillbillies.

This Traveltalk series short visits several points of interest in England, including the port of Liverpool, war destruction at Coventry, the historic Warwick Castle, and Stratford-on-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare.

Old short about the importance of good platform posture and how we can improve it through the simple knee test.

Mobster Thomas Nagle and his gang take over a ship to use running guns and counterfeit money into Lisbon.

This overlooked, if not almost forgotten romantic melodrama from Director Juan Jose Ortega, features a South American-born beauty named Lenora Amar, (whom the Mexican press quickly dubbed "The Brazilian Beauty"),in the title role. Although her acting career w...

A puppet animation.

A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.

Little Henery the Chicken Hawk goes hunting chickens with a hammer and clunks Foghorn Leghorn on the noggin. Foghorn sends Henery after the barnyard dog by misleading him into thinking the dog is a chicken. The dog sets Henery straight and helps him build a tr...

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

A thief commits several misdeeds and, to mislead the police, keeps jewelry in the house of his fiancée, whom he seduces to prevent her from discovering the theft.

This documentary was made by the American Dodge Company in 1948-49 in order to promote the toughness of their trucks to North American, South American and Australian viewers. We see here rare scenes of Cuzco, Sacsayhuaman and other megalithic areas of Peru, Bo...

Germany, 1914: The bourgeois austerity of the small, northern German town in which Ulyssa lives conflicts sharply with her desire to flirt with and be ensnared by charming, young men. That she's married is irrelevant; it's a marriage which exists only on pap...

Businessman Karel Bočan is a swindler who writes down the debts of his victims in a green notebook. He is stopped by an observant boy who reveals the fraudster and dealer in stolen goods in it.

Monogram's Whip Wilson western series occasionally produced a better-than-average entry. In Range Land, Wilson and saddle pal Andy Clyde try to get the goods on a gang of stagecoach bandits.

Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters, seeking out jobs elsewhere. During their travels, they come across beautiful girls as well as jobs in different ironw...