Most Viewed Year 1949

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Joseph Cotten

When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hedy Lamarr

A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Terry Moore

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Burt Lancaster

Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Mitchum

The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Bing Crosby

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil...

Genre: Romance

Cast: June Allyson

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Cooper

A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Basehart

Inspired by a magazine ad, Goofy sends for a mail order body building course. First is weight lifting; after Goofy finally gets the weights up, a fly...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Pinto Colvig

Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Olivia de Havilland

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dennis Price

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After...

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Cagney

A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ann Sothern

After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cary Grant

Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vittorio Gassman

A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.

Genre: Western

Cast: Randolph Scott

The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The...

Genre: Western

Cast: Clayton Moore

Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the...

Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Cast: Jack La Rue

BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including children's entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los...

Genre: Reality

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Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same...

Genre: Drama

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Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gloria Winters

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maurice Joyce

A Woman to Remember is a soap opera which ran on the DuMont Television Network from February 21, 1949 to July 15, 1949. The show initially ran in...

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Cast: Frankie Thomas

Man Against Crime, one of the first television programs about private eyes, ran on CBS, the DuMont Television Network and NBC from October 7, 1949 to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ralph Bellamy

Fireside Theater is an American anthology drama series that ran on NBC from 1949 to 1958, and was the first successful filmed series on American...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gene Raymond

Martin Kane, Private Eye was an early radio series and television crime series sponsored by United States Tobacco Company.

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An annual awards ceremony honoring the best in U.S. prime time television programming as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

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Based on a popular radio series, each show tells a different reporter's Big Story, a true story selected from newspapers across the United States....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Burgess Meredith

The Silver Theatre is a television series that was broadcast on the CBS television network from 1949 to 1950. It was a live anthology series...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Conrad Nagel

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Cast: Ed Wynn

Family Affairs was the first television serial broadcast by BBC Television.

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Cast: Madoline Thomas

Hands of Murder was an American mystery/anthology series that aired on the DuMont Television Network.

Genre: Mystery

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Your Show Time is an American anthology drama series that debuted as a midseason replacement on NBC Television in January 1949. Hosted and narrated...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arthur Shields

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Cast: Jackie Gleason

The Voice of Firestone is a long-running radio and television program of classical music. The show featured leading singers in selections from opera...

Genre: Reality

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Starring Boris Karloff (also known as The Boris Karloff Mystery Playhouse) is an American radio and television anthology series broadcast for 13...

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Cast: Boris Karloff