Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1948

<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="25" leftmargin="50"> <TABLE> <TR bgcolor="#000000"><TD><img src=strip48banner.jpg width=100%> </TD></TR> <TR><TD> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Top Ten Films of 1948: World Premieres</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-1><br></Font> <Table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>1. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Bicycle Thieves</Font></b></Font> Dir. Vittorio de Sica. With Alessandro Cicognini, Enzo Staiola <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>2. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Letter from an Unknown Woman</Font></b></Font> Dir. Max Oph&#252ls. With Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>3. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">The Red Shoes</Font></b></Font> Dirs. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. With Anton Walbrook <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>4. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Red River</Font></b></Font> Dir. Howard Hawks. With Montgomery Clift, John Wayne, Joanne Dru <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>5. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=thsearch.html style="text-decoration:none">The Search</a></b></Font> Dir. Fred Zinnemann. With Ivan Jandl, Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> </Table> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Reviews from 1948</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1> <Font Color="#009900">★</Font> <b>= Full-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#0099CC">&#169</Font> <b> = Capsule-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#FF6600">★</Font> <b>&nbsp= Blog Review</b> (New Window) </Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">★</Font>   <b><a href=thsearch.html style="text-decoration:none">The Search</a></b></Font> Dir. Fred Zinnemann. With Ivan Jandl, Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1948</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>Unreviewed titles I have seen recently enough to grade</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>I Remember Mama</b></Font> Dir. George Stevens. With Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Philip Dorn <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b><a href=joanrc48.html style="text-decoration:none">Joan of Arc</a></b></Font> Dir. Victor Fleming. With Ingrid Bergman, Jos&#233 Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Rope</b></Font> Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. With John Dall, Farley Granger, James Stewart, Joan Chandler <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Also from 1948</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>The memories are fading, but they're somewhere in my brain</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Fetching</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Big Clock</b></Font> Dir. John Farrow. With Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Johnny Belinda</b></Font> Dir. Jean Negulesco. With Lew Ayres, Jane Wyman, Charles Bickford<br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Fair</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Fallen Idol</b></Font> Dir. Carol Reed. With Bobby Henrey, Ralph Richardson, Michele Morgan<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Hamlet</b></Font> Dir. Laurence Olivier. With Laurence Olivier, Eileen Herlie, Jean Simmons<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Snake Pit</b></Font> Dir. Anatole Litvak. With Olivia de Havilland, Leo Genn, Mark Stevens<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Treasure of the Sierra Madre</b></Font> Dir. John Huston. With Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt<br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Feh</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Key Largo</b></Font> Dir. John Huston. With Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Macbeth</b></Font> Dir. Orson Welles. With Orson Welles, Jeannette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy<br> <hr> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Still to Come from 1948</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Ten Most Enticing Prospects:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Arch of Triumph</b></Font> Dir. Lewis Milestone. With Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Boy with Green Hair</b></Font> Dir. Joseph Losey. With Dean Stockwell, Pat O'Brien<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Germany Year Zero</b></Font> Dir. Roberto Rossellini. With Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Louisiana Story</b></Font> Dir. Robert J. Flaherty. Documentary about the Louisiana bayou<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Moonrise</b></Font> Dir. Frank Borzage. With Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Naked City</b></Font> Dir. Jules Dassin. With Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Secret Beyond the Door</b></Font> Dir. Fritz Lang. With Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Sorry, Wrong Number</b></Font> Dir. Anatole Litvak. With Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>They Live by Night</b></Font> Dir. Nicholas Ray. With Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Unfaithfully Yours</b></Font> Dir. Preston Sturges. With Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell<br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Further Research:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>3 Godfathers</b></Font> Dir. John Ford. With John Wayne, Pedro Armend&#225riz, Harry Carey, Jr.<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein</b></Font> Dir. Charles Barton. With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Act of Violence</b></Font> Dir. Fred Zinnemann. With Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>All My Sons</b></Font> Dir. Irving Reis. With Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Anna Karenina</b></Font> Dir. Julien Duvivier. With Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Call Northside 777</b></Font> Dir. Henry Hathaway. With James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Drunken Angel</b></Font> Dir. Akira Kurosawa. With Takashi Shimura, Toshir&#244 Mifune<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Easter Parade</b></Font> Dir. Charles Walters. With Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Ann Miller<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Emperor Waltz</b></Font> Dir. Billy Wilder. With Bing Crosby, Joan Fontaine, Ronald Culver<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Every Girl Should Be Married</b></Font> Dir. Don Hartman. With Cary Grant, Diana Lynn<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Force of Evil</b></Font> Dir. Abraham Polonsky. With John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>A Foreign Affair</b></Font> Dir. Billy Wilder. With Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Fort Apache</b></Font> Dir. John Ford. With John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Ward Bond<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>I Walk Alone</b></Font> Dir. Byron Haskin. With Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Julia Misbehaves</b></Font> Dir. Jack Conway. With Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Elizabeth Taylor<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Loves of Carmen</b></Font> Dir. Charles Vidor. With Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Ron Randell<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Luck of the Irish</b></Font> Dir. Henry Koster. With Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Cecil Kellaway<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Man from Colorado</b></Font> Dir. Henry Levin. With Glenn Ford, William Holden, Ellen Drew<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House</b></Font> Dir. H.C. Potter. With Cary Grant, Myrna Loy<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Oliver Twist</b></Font> Dir. David Lean. With John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Alec Guinness<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Paleface</b></Font> Dir. Norman Z. McLeod. With Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Pirate</b></Font> Dir. Vincente Minnelli. With Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Walter Slezak<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Port of Call</b></Font> Dir. Ingmar Bergman. With Nine-Christine J&#246nsson, Bengt Eklund, Mimi Nelson<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Portrait of Jennie</b></Font> Dir. William Dieterle. With Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Rachel and the Stranger</b></Font> Dir. Norman Foster. With Loretta Young, William Holden<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Raw Deal</b></Font> Dir. Anthony Mann. With Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Road House</b></Font> Dir. Jean Negulesco. With Ida Lupino, Richard Widmark, Cornel Wilde<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Sitting Pretty</b></Font> Dir. Walter Lang. With Clifton Webb, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Young<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>A Song Is Born</b></Font> Dir. Howard Hawks. With Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Springtime in a Small Town</b></Font> Dir. Fei Mu. With Cui Chaoming, Li Wei, Shi Yu, Wei Wei<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>State of the Union</b></Font> Dir. Frank Capra. With Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>La Terra Trema, Part II</b></Font> Dir. Luchino Visconti. With Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Time of Your Life</b></Font> Dir. H.C. Potter. With James Cagney, William Bendix<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>When My Baby Smiles at Me</b></Font> Dir. Walter Lang. With Betty Grable, Dan Dailey<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Winslow Boy</b></Font> Dir. Anthony Asquith. With Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Woman in White</b></Font> Dir. Peter Godfrey. 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