1. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Huston
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Bruce Bennett, Tim Holt, Arturo Soto Rangel
Plot: Two poor men meet up with a man in Mexico as he convinces them to search for gold. They all start off as friends, will they return home that way?
2. Rope
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: James Stewart, John Dall, Cedric Hardwicke, Farley Granger, Constance Collier, Douglas Dick
Plot: A group of men strangle one of their friends and hide him in a closet, then invite guest over to test how well they committed the crime - think they had achieved the perfect crime.
3. Red River
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, Coleen Gray
Plot: A cattle drive turns sour when the family begins to fight. They fight off other enemies including nature and humans.
4. The Red Shoes
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Actors: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Jean Short, Gordon Littmann
Plot: A young ballerina is torn between her professional life and love life.
5. Key Largo
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Huston
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, Harry Lewis
Plot: A hurricane is coming into the Florida Keys. Which is where a former soldier is looking for his dead friend's family.
6. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Barton
Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange, Lenore Aubert
Plot: Two freight handlers Wilbur Grey and Chick Young (Abbot and Costello) find themselves in deep trouble when Dracula and a weakened Frankenstein escape on route to a house of horrors exhibit. When the Wolfman comes calling to stop Dracula - who is after Wilbur's brain to revitalize his monster - things seem to be going better... until the full moon arrives.
7. Letter from an Unknown Woman
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Max Ophüls
Actors: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith, Carol Yorke
Plot: A former concert pianist, Stefan Brand, plans to flee his Vienna home in order to avoid a duel. Yet a letter from an unknown woman holds the key to his current predicament: through flashbacks we see their interactions, from a young neighbor, to a sudden pregnancy to a older woman willing to leave her family to be with him. Despite having forgotten her time and time again - she has never forgotten him.
8. Sorry, Wrong Number
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anatole Litvak
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Ed Begley, William Conrad, Wendell Corey
Plot: A woman, sick and confined to bed, picks up the phone only to overhear what she thinks is a plot to murder. She becomes increasingly desperate in her quest to find out who the victim is going to be and how to stop the plot from being carried out.
9. Day of Wrath ( Vredens dag )
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Actors: Lisbeth Movin, Thorkild Roose, Anna Svierkier, Sigrid Neiiendam, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Olaf Ussing
Plot: In 17th-century Denmark, a village is in the midst of witch-hunt. During this time the young wife of the town's aged pastor finds herself falling for his son and begins an affair. When the pastor finds out, it leads to his death and his mother accuses the young woman of being a witch herself.
10. The Naked City
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jules Dassin
Actors: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy, Ted de Corsia
Plot: A blond model was murdered. Lt. Dan Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) was given the assignment of the case. Detective Jimmy Halloran (Don Taylor) aids with the legwork. They investigate a myriad of people to resolve the difficult case including a friend of the victim Ruth Morrison (Dorothy Hart).
