1947

Film Decades: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

  • 13 Rue Madeleine – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring James Cagney
  • Admiral Nakhimov – (USSR)
  • Along the Sungari River (Songhua-jiang shang) – (China)
  • Angel and the Badman – starring John Wayne and Gail Russell
  • The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer – starring Cary Grant, Shirley Temple, Myrna Loy
  • Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, starring Hildegard Knef – (Germany)
  • The Big Fix, starring Sheila Ryan
  • The Bishop’s Wife – starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
  • Black Narcissus, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, Jean Simmons – (GB)
  • Body and Soul – directed by Robert Rossen, starring John Garfield & Lilli Palmer
  • Boomerang! – directed by Elia Kazan, starring Dana Andrews
  • Born to Kill, starring Claire Trevor and Lawrence Tierney
  • The Brasher Doubloon, starring George Montgomery
  • Brighton Rock, a Boulting Brothers film, starring Richard Attenborough – (GB)
  • Brute Force, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Burt Lancaster
  • Buck Privates Come Home, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
  • Bury Me Dead, starring June Lockhart and Hugh Beaumont
  • California – directed by John Farrow, starring Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck, & Barry Fitzgerald
  • Captain Boycott, directed by Frank Launder, starring Stewart Granger – (GB)
  • Captain from Castile, starring Tyrone Power
  • Carnegie Hall, starring Marsha Hunt
  • Cass Timberlane – starring Spencer Tracy & Lana Turner
  • Cinderella (Zolushka) – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Copacabana, starring Groucho Marx and Carmen Miranda
  • Crime Doctor’s Gamble – directed by William Castle
  • Crossfire, starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame
  • Cry Wolf – directed by Peter Godfrey, starring Errol Flynn & Barbara Stanwyck
  • Cynthia – starring Elizabeth Taylor & George Murphy
  • Daisy Kenyon – directed by Otto Preminger, starring Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews
  • Dancing with Crime, starring Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim – (GB)
  • Dark Passage – directed by Delmar Daves, starring Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall
  • Dead Reckoning – directed by John Cromwell, starring Humphrey Bogart & Lizabeth Scott
  • Deep Valley – directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Ida Lupino
  • Desert Fury, starring John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott
  • Desperate – directed by Anthony Mann, starring Steve Brodie and Raymond Burr
  • Devil in the Flesh (Diable au corps) – (France)
  • The Devil Thumbs a Ride, starring Lawrence Tierney
  • Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome, starring Boris Karloff and Ralph Byrd
  • Driftwood, starring Walter Brennan and Natalie Wood
  • A Double Life, starring Ronald Colman and Shelley Winters
  • Down to Earth – starring Rita Hayworth & Larry Parks
  • Dreams That Money Can Buy, directed by Hans Richter
  • The Egg and I – starring Claudette Colbert & Fred MacMurray
  • Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon (Ba qian li lu yun he yue) – (China)
  • Escape Me Never – directed by Peter Godfrey, starring Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker, & Gig Young
  • The Exile, directed by Max Ophuls, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Maria Montez
  • Fame is the Spur, a Boulting Brothers film, with Michael Redgrave – (GB)
  • Far Away Love, directed by Chen Liting, starring Zhao Dan and Qin Yi – (China)
  • The Farmer’s Daughter, starring Loretta Young and Joseph Cotten
  • Fear in the Night, starring DeForest Kelley
  • Fireworks, directed by Kenneth Anger
  • The Flame, starring Vera Ralston and Broderick Crawford
  • Flesh Will Surrender (Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo), starring Aldo Fabrizi – (Italy)
  • Forever Amber – directed by Otto Preminger, starring Linda Darnell
  • The Foxes of Harrow – directed by John M. Stahl, starring Rex Harrison & Maureen O’Hara – GB/US
  • Framed, directed by Richard Wallace, starring Glenn Ford
  • Frieda, directed by Basil Dearden, starring David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Mai Zetterling – (GB)
  • The Fugitive – directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda & Dolores del Río
  • Fun and Fancy Free, an animated film from Disney and RKO
  • The Garcias Return! (¡Vuelven los Garcia!), starring Pedro Infante – (Mexico)
  • Gentleman’s Agreement – directed by Elia Kazan, starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, Celeste Holm, John Garfield
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir – directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Gene Tierney & Rex Harrison
  • Golden Earrings – starring Ray Milland & Marlene Dietrich
  • Good News, starring June Allyson and Peter Lawford
  • Green Dolphin Street, starring Lana Turner and Donna Reed
  • The Guilt of Janet Ames, starring Rosalind Russell
  • The Guilty, starring Bonita Granville
  • Heaven Only Knows, starring Robert Cummings
  • Hi-De-Ho, starring Cab Calloway
  • High Barbaree, starring Van Johnson and June Allyson
  • High Wall, starring Robert Taylor
  • Honeymoon – directed by William Keighley, starring Shirley Temple, Guy Madison and Franchot Tone
  • The Hucksters – directed by Jack Conway, starring Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet, Adolphe Menjou, Ava Gardner, Keenan Wynn, Edward Arnold
  • Hue and Cry, the first Ealing comedy, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alastair Sim – (GB)
  • The Humpbacked Horse (Konyok Gorbunok) – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Hungry Hill, starring Margaret Lockwood and Dennis Price – (GB)
  • An Ideal Husband, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Michael Wilding and Paulette Goddard – (GB)
  • If Winter Comes, starring Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Angela Lansbury
  • In Those Days (In jenen Tagen) – (Germany)
  • It Always Rains on Sunday, starring Googie Withers and Jack Warner – (GB)
  • It Happened on Fifth Avenue, starring Victor Moore, Don DeFore, Gale Storm, Charlie Ruggles
  • Jenny and the Soldier (Soldaten og Jenny) – (Denmark)
  • Johnny O’Clock – directed by Robert Rossen, starring Dick Powell
  • Killer Dill, starring Stuart Erwin and Anne Gwynne
  • Kiss of Death, starring Victor Mature and Richard Widmark
  • The Lady from Shanghai – directed by and starring Orson Welles, with Rita Hayworth
  • Lady in the Lake, directed by and starring Robert Montgomery
  • Last of the Redskins, starring Michael O’Shea
  • The Last Stage (Ostatni etap) – (Poland)
  • The Late George Apley, starring Ronald Colman
  • Law of the Lash, starring Lash LaRue
  • Life with Father, starring William Powell and Elizabeth Taylor
  • A Likely Story, starring Barbara Hale and Bill Williams
  • Living in a Big Way – starring Gene Kelly & Marie McDonald
  • The Long Night – directed by Anatole Litvak, starring Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price
  • Lost Honeymoon, starring Franchot Tone and Ann Richards
  • The Lost Moment, starring Robert Cummings and Susan Hayward
  • Lost Youth (Gioventù perduta), directed by Pietro Germi – (Italy)
  • Love from a Stranger, starring John Hodiak
  • Lured, starring George Sanders and Lucille Ball
  • The Macomber Affair, starring Gregory Peck and Joan Bennett
  • The Man I Love, starring Ida Lupino and Robert Alda
  • The Mark of Cain, directed by Brian Desmond Hurst (GB)
  • Marriage in the Shadows (Ehe im Schatten) – (East Germany)
  • Mine Own Executioner, starring Burgess Meredith – (GB)
  • Miracle on 34th Street – directed by George Seaton, starring Edmund Gwenn, John Payne, Maureen O’Hara, & Natalie Wood
  • Monsieur Verdoux – directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
  • Monsieur Vincent, starring Pierre Fresnay – (France)
  • Moss Rose – directed by Gregory Ratoff, starring Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, Ethel Barrymore, Vincent Price
  • Mother Wore Tights, starring Betty Grable
  • Mourning Becomes Electra, starring Rosalind Russell and Michael Redgrave
  • My Brother Talks to Horses – directed by Fred Zinnermann
  • My Favourite Brunette, starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour
  • My Wild Irish Rose, a biopic starring Dennis Morgan (as Chauncey Olcott)
  • Nicholas Nickleby, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Stanley Holloway – (GB)
  • Nightmare Alley, starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell
  • Nora Prentiss, starring Ann Sheridan
  • The October Man, starring John Mills and Joan Greenwood – (GB)
  • Odd Man Out, directed by Carol Reed, starring James Mason and Robert Newton – (GB)
  • One Wonderful Sunday – directed by Akira Kurosawa – Japan
  • L’onorevole Angelina (Parliamentarian Angelina), directed by Luigi Zampa, starring Anna Magnani – (Italy)
  • The Other Love – directed by Andre DeToth, starring Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven, & Richard Conte
  • Out of the Blue, starring Virginia Mayo and George Brent
  • Out of the Past, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas
  • The Paradine Case – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Gregory Peck, Alida Valli, Ann Todd, Louis Jourdan, Charles Laughton
  • The Pearl (La Perla), starring Pedro Armendáriz – (Mexico)
  • The Perils of Pauline, starring Betty Hutton
  • Pirates of Monterey, starring Rod Cameron and Maria Montez
  • Possessed, starring Joan Crawford and Van Heflin
  • Pursued, starring Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright
  • Quai des Orfèvres, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Louis Jouvet – (France)
  • Railroaded! – directed by Anthony Mann, starring John Ireland & Hugh Beaumont
  • Ramrod, starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake
  • The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Nagaya shinshiroku), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
  • The Red House – starring Edward G. Robinson & Judith Anderson
  • Repeat Performance, starring Louis Hayward and Joan Leslie
  • Ride the Pink Horse – directed by and starring Robert Montgomery
  • Riffraff, starring Pat O’Brien and Anne Jeffreys
  • Road to Rio, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope
  • The Romance of Rosy Ridge, starring Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh
  • The Root of All Evil, starring Phyllis Calvert and Michael Rennie – (GB)
  • Roses Are Red, starring Peggy Knudsen
  • Scared to Death – starring Bela Lugosi & George Zucco
  • School for Postmen (L’École des facteurs), a comedy short directed by and starring Jacques Tati – (France)
  • The Sea of Grass – directed by Elia Kazan, starring Katharine Hepburn & Spencer Tracy
  • Secret Agent (Podvig razvedchika), directed by Boris Barnet – (U.S.S.R.)
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty – directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter, & Ann Rutherford
  • The Senator Was Indiscreet, starring William Powell
  • A Ship to India (Skepp till India land) – directed by Ingmar Bergman – (Sweden)
  • The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, starring Betty Grable
  • Sinbad the Sailor – directed by Richard Wallace, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Maureen O’Hara, Walter Slezak, and Anthony Quinn
  • Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman, starring Susan Hayward
  • Snow Trail (Ginrei no hate) – starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
  • So Well Remembered, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring John Mills and Martha Scott – (GB)
  • Something in the Wind, starring Deanna Durbin and Donald O’Connor
  • Song of Scheherazade, starring Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Brian Donlevy
  • Song of the Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
  • The Spring River Flows East (Yi jiang chun shui xiang dong liu) – (China)
  • Story of a Bad Woman (Historia de una mala mujer) – (Argentina)
  • T-Men – directed by Anthony Mann, starring Dennis O’Keefe
  • Temptation Harbour, starring Robert Newton and Simone Simon – (GB)
  • That Way with Women – directed by Frederick de Cordova, starring Dane Clark, Martha Vickers, Sydney Greenstreet, Alan Hale, Sr., Craig Stevens, Barbara Brown
  • They Made Me a Fugitive, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Trevor Howard – (GB)
  • They Won’t Believe Me, starring Robert Young and Susan Hayward
  • This Time for Keeps, starring Esther Williams and Jimmy Durante
  • The Three Garcias (Los tres García), starring Pedro Infante – (Mexico)
  • To Live in Peace (Vivere in pace) – (Italy)
  • The Two Mrs. Carrolls – directed by Peter Godfrey, starring Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, & Alexis Smith
  • Trail Street – starring Randolph Scott
  • Uncle Silas, starring Jean Simmons – (GB)
  • Unconquered – directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Gary Cooper & Paulette Goddard
  • The Unfaithful, starring Ann Sheridan and Lew Ayres
  • The Unsuspected, starring Claude Rains and Joan Caulfield
  • Variety Girl – directed by George Marshall
  • The Voice of the Turtle, starring Ronald Reagan
  • The Web – directed by Michael Gordon, starring Ella Raines, Edmond O’Brien, William Bendix, Vincent Price
  • Welcome Stranger, starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald
  • Whispering City, starring Paul Lukas – (Canada)
  • The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
  • The Woman on the Beach, starring Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan
  • Wyoming, starring Wild Bill Elliott