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Hillbilly Hare (1950)
, 7minutesDirected by Robert McKimson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Action, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Court métrage de Bugs Bunny, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Mel Blanc, Stan Freberg, Gérard Surugue
Bugs est en train de flâner dans les monts Ozarks quand un fusil extrêmement long appartenant à Barbe-Noire Martin (chapeau rouge, pantalon bleu et barbe noire) le pointe ; après avoir esquivé une première balle, Bugs noue le bout du fusil et court en voulant défaire ce nœud reçoit la balle en pleine figure. Bugs croyant avoir vaincu un chasseur idiot est mis en joue par le frère de Barbe-Noire : Barbe-Rousse (chapeau noir, pantalon vert et barbe rousse); ce dernier se fait rouler aussi par Bugs lorsque ce dernier change la crosse de place. Il est tout de même poursuivi par les deux chasseurs et les enferme dans une poudrière après leur avoir donné un briquet. Déguisé en séduisante fille, il attire les Martin dans un salon où bugs endosse un déguisement de musicien et commence alors un square dance burlesque : il fait tirer les deux frères par la barbe, les fait tomber dans une rivière, les fait danser dans une porcherie, les encourage à se donner des coups de poteaux de clôture sur la tête, les fait entrer dans une moissonneuse batteuse et enfin les fait chuter d'un précipice.
The Return of Jesse James (1950)
, 1h15Directed by Arthur Hilton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors John Ireland, Ann Dvorak, Henry Hull, Reed Hadley, Hugh O'Brian, Clifton Young
Frank James et supporte mal essaie d'arrêter un Drifter impitoyable qui a adopté le nom de son frère mort afin de reproduire ses crimes.
Hurdy-Gurdy Hare (1950)
Directed by Robert McKimson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Court métrage de Bugs Bunny, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Mel Blanc
Bugs apprend par un journal qu'un orgue mécanique et un petit singe sont à vendre. Il les achète puis se rend compte que le petit singe vole de la monnaie après une journée triomphale et le lapin l'expédie dare-dare. Pendant que Bugs essaye (en vain) de remplacer le singe, ce dernier raconte sa mésaventure à son père (Gruesome) qui décide de le venger et réussit à s'échapper. Après avoir rejoint Bugs, il se fait avoir 2 fois en essayant d'imiter Bugs : la première fois, Gruesome gonfle et tombe de l'hôtel où Bugs mendiait : la deuxième, en voulant rebondir sur le toit couvert de l'hôtel. Cependant Bugs le fait rechuter grâce à un déguisement de porteur. Après une course poursuite, Bugs immobilise le gorille avec des briques, du ciment et un cigare explosif. Ce dernier, très énervé, tombe et finit par être calmé par un air de violon que joue Bugs. Le lapin finit par se réconcilier avec le petit singe et tous deux gagnent une fortune en s'associant.
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
, 1h33Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about apes, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh, Douglas Fowley, Nestor Paiva
In 1937 Tanganyika Territory, Africa, eight-year-old Jill Young (Lora Lee Michel) is living with her father on his ranch. While in her yard, two Africans come by with an orphaned baby gorilla; Jill so wants a pet that she trades her toys and money for him, vowing to always care for the gorilla.
We Were Strangers (1949)
, 1h46Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendáriz, Gilbert Roland, Ramón Novarro, Wally Cassell
Based on the overthrow of Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado y Morales in 1933, the story is about a group of revolutionaries who plot to bring down their corrupt government. China (pronounced Cheena) Valdez (Jennifer Jones) witnesses her brother's murder after he distributes leftist pamphlets and vows that she will kill his assassin. At his funeral, however, she is persuaded to join an underground group whose moves are more carefully orchestrated. China's house is next door to a cemetery and the leader of the group John Fenner (John Garfield) devises a scheme to assassinate an official whose family plot is in the cemetery and detonate a bomb at the man's funeral thereby killing as many officials as possible. To do this, they must dig a tunnel from China's house to the cemetery. Much of the movie focuses on the digging of the tunnel while Garfield and Jones develop a romantic interest in each other. The film climaxes with a violent shoot-out sequence.
Battleground (1949)
, 1h58Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Van Johnson, John Hodiak, George Murphy, Ricardo Montalbán, James Whitmore, Don Taylor
In mid-December 1944 Pvt. Jim Layton (Marshall Thompson) and his buddy Pvt. William J. Hooper are fresh replacements assigned to separate companies in the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. As a newcomer Layton receives a chilly welcome. PFC Holley (Van Johnson) returns to the company after recuperating from a wound.
The Gal Who Took the West (1949)
, 1h24Directed by Frederick de Cordova
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Yvonne De Carlo, Charles Coburn, Scott Brady, John Russell, James Millican, Myrna Dell
- 1949 - Un journaliste enquête en Arizona sur l'histoire de la famille O'Hara; aux archives du musée local, il préfère des témoignages recueillis auprès de témoins de l'époque encore en vie, en l'occurrence trois vieillards portés sur la bouteille... dont les versions diffèrent quant aux motivations des protagonistes...
Christopher Columbus (1949)
, 1h39Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan, Kathleen Ryan, James Robertson Justice, Derek Bond
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
Rope of Sand (1949)
, 1h44Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Corinne Calvet, Peter Lorre, Sam Jaffe
Hunting guide Mike Davis (Burt Lancaster) comes across a cache of diamonds in a remote region of South West Africa, but refuses to reveal its location even under torture at the hand of the diamond company's security chief, Vogel.
Slattery's Hurricane (1949)
, 1h27Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Météorologie, Transport films, Aviation films, Catastrophe climatique, Children's films, Disaster films
Actors Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Veronica Lake, John Russell, Gary Merrill, Raymond Greenleaf
"...This is a hurricane. Hurricanes are windstorms of great violence several hundred miles in diameter, with a dead calm at the center called the eye. Like whirlpools, they spin rapidly, hurling great destruction in their paths. They're spawned in the doldrums, their father the heat of the sun, their mother the moisture of the sea. From July to December every year, the Caribbean crawls with these evil offspring of the elements..."
The Kid from Cleveland (1949)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors George Brent, Lynn Bari, Russ Tamblyn, Ann Doran, John Beradino, Tommy Cook
The Kid from Cleveland tells the story of a "troubled teenaged fan" being helped by his favorite baseball team - the Cleveland Indians. The Indians had just won the 1948 World Series and many of the team's players made appearances along with owner Bill Veeck, co-owner and former Major League Baseball star Hank Greenberg, and then current coach and Baseball Hall-of-Famer Tris Speaker. Also featured were the team's then current and former ballparks, Cleveland Municipal Stadium and League Park. Several Cleveland Indians and Boston Braves players also appear in the film in archive baseball footage segments from the 1948 World Series.
Criss Cross (1949)
, 1h24Directed by Robert Siodmak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Alan Napier, Percy Helton
Reuniting with director Siodmak after their success with Ernest Hemingway's The Killers, Burt Lancaster plays Steve Thompson, a man who seals his dark fate when he returns to Los Angeles to find his ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne DeCarlo) eager to rekindle their love against all better judgment.
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
, 2h12Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, Dean Jagger, Paul Stewart
In 1949, former U.S. Army Air Force officer Harvey Stovall (Dean Jagger) is vacationing in Great Britain when he spots a familiar Toby Jug in an antique shop window and is told that it came from Archbury, where Stovall served with the 918th Bomb Group during World War II. Convinced that it is the same jug, he buys it and journeys to the now-abandoned airfield.
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
, 1h43Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors John Wayne, Victor McLaglen, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, Jr.
On the verge of his retirement at Fort Starke, a one-troop cavalry post, aging US Cavalry Captain Nathan Cutting Brittles (John Wayne) is given one last mission: to take his troop and deal with a breakout from the reservation by the Cheyenne and Arapaho following the defeat of George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
White Heat (1949)
, 1h54Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Prison films, Films about psychiatry, Gangster films
Actors James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly, Steve Cochran, Ford Rainey
Arthur "Cody" Jarrett (James Cagney) is a ruthless, deranged criminal gang leader. Although married to Verna (Virginia Mayo), Cody is overly attached to his equally crooked and determined mother, "Ma" Jarrett (Margaret Wycherly), his only real confidante (Cody's father died in an insane asylum). Cody suffers from debilitating headaches, and Ma consoles him--even sitting him on her lap and giving him a shot of whiskey with the toast, "Top of the world," an expression she uses more than once.