Most Viewed Year 1949

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 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

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

The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Sinatra

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

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

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 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

Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944....

Genre: Action

Cast: Van Johnson

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

Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lizabeth Scott

A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Van Heflin

In a small town in occupied France in 1941, the German officer, Werner Von Ebrennac is billeted in the house of the uncle and his niece. The uncle...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Howard Vernon

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

A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of the man he was convicted on killing, set out to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ingrid Bergman

Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Tati

Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Edmond O'Brien

In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antonio Arcidiacono

Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane and the headless horseman is brought to life, narrated by Bing Crosby.

Genre: Family

Cast: Bing Crosby

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

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

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

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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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

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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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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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

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

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Cast: Ed Wynn

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

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

The Clock is a 30-minute American anthology television series based upon the American Broadcasting Company radio series which ran from 1946–48....

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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

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

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Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maurice Joyce

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Cast: Jackie Gleason

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

Genre: Mystery

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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

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

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Cast: Madoline Thomas