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

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 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

A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be...

Genre: Western

Cast: John Wayne

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

Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.

Genre: Music

Cast: Gene Kelly

At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Farrar

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

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Ryan

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

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

The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his son...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernando Soler

A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Ireland

When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stanley Holloway

A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spencer Tracy

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

John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the...

Genre: Western

Cast: John Wayne

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

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

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

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

Cast:

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maurice Joyce

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

Cast:

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

Genre: Mystery

Cast:

Genre:

Cast: Ed Wynn

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

Genre:

Cast:

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...

Genre:

Cast: Frankie Thomas

Genre:

Cast: Jackie Gleason

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

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

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

Genre:

Cast:

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

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

Cast:

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 Admiral Broadway Revue is an American variety show that ran from January 28 to June 3, 1949. The show was broadcast live on Fridays, 8-9 pm...

Genre:

Cast: Imogene Coca

Arthur Godfrey and His Friends is an American television variety show hosted by Arthur Godfrey. The hour-long series aired on CBS Television from...

Genre:

Cast: Arthur Godfrey

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

Genre:

Cast: Boris Karloff