11. 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.
12. The Snake Pit
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anatole Litvak
Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan, Helen Craig
Plot: Virginia Cunningham wakes up in state mental asylum with no memory of how
she got there. Through flashbacks, we see her relationship with her
husband, Robert, and early symptoms to her current plight. Dr. Mark Kik
attempts to get the root of the problem while fear and the regimental
attitude keep Virginia in a constant state of misery.
13. The Lady from Shanghai
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Orson Welles
Actors: Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Ted de Corsia, Glenn Anders, Gus Schilling
Plot: A sailer gets mixed up with a gorgeous woman and a murder plot in which he may or may not be involved in.
14. Fort Apache
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendáriz, Ward Bond, George O'Brien
Plot: Owen Thursday is a man who believes he is destined for great things. Posted at the lonesome, desolate Fort Apache, his arrogance and obsession leads him to forming a plan to destroy the Apache chief Cochise across the Mexican border, against the better judgement of his subordinates.
15. Act of Violence
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter, Berry Kroeger
Plot: War veteran Frank Enley seems to be a happily married small-town citizen until he realises Joe Parkson is in town. It seems Parkson is out for revenge because of something that happened in a German POW camp, and when a frightened Enley suddenly leaves for a convention in L.A., Parkson is close behind.
16. Johnny Belinda
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Negulesco
Actors: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, Agnes Moorehead, Stephen McNally, Jan Sterling
Plot: A small-town doctor helps a deaf mute farm girl learn to communicate.
17. Hamlet
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Laurence Olivier
Actors: Laurence Olivier, Peter Cushing, Eileen Herlie, John Laurie, Basil Sydney, Russell Thorndike
Plot: Based on the Shakespeare play of the same name about a prince who seeks to avenge his fathers death.
18. Call Northside 777
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry Hathaway
Actors: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker, Betty Garde, Kasia Orzazewski
Plot: Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal reopens an eleven-year-old case after the victim's mother post and ad in the paper. While he at first initially supports the original findings, as he digs deeper, he comes up with another theory - and resistance from the authorities only makes him work that much harder to uncover the truth.
19. I Remember Mama
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Philip Dorn, Rudy Vallee, Peggy McIntyre, Oskar Homolka
20. The Search
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotna, Wendell Corey, Ivan Jandl, Mary Patton
Plot: An American G.I. finds a silent, 9-year-old Czech boy who has survived the horrors of Auschwitz. Meanwhile his mother, the only surviving member of his family, frantically searches for his son amidst the sea of refugees.
