List of American films of 1949: Difference between revisions

|''[[The Accused (1949 film)|The Accused]]''|| [[William Dieterle]] || [[Loretta Young]], [[Robert Cummings]], [[Wendell Corey]] || [[Film noir]] || [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]

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|''[[Adventure in Baltimore]]''|| [[Richard Wallace (director)|Richard Wallace]]|| [[Shirley Temple]], [[Robert Young (actor)|Robert Young]]|| Drama || [[RKO Pictures|RKO]]

|''[[Africa Screams]]''||[[Charles Barton (director)|Charles Barton]] ||[[Bud Abbott]], [[Lou Costello]], [[Clyde Beatty]], [[Frank Buck (animal collector)|Frank Buck]] ||Comedy || [[United Artists]]

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|''[[Alias the Champ]]'' || [[George Blair (director)|George Blair]] || [[Audrey Long]], [[Gorgeous George]] || Mystery || [[Republic Pictures|Republic]]

|''[[And Baby Makes Three]]'' || [[Henry Levin (film director)|Henry Levin]] || [[Barbara Hale]], [[Robert Young (actor)|Robert Young]] || Comedy || [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]

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|''[[Anna Lucasta (1949 film)|Anna Lucasta]]'' || [[Irving Rapper]] || [[Paulette Goddard]], [[Gale Page]] || Drama || [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]

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|''[[Arctic Manhunt]]'' || [[Ewing Scott]] || [[Mikel Conrad]], [[Carol Thurston]] || Adventure || [[Universal Pictures|Universal]]

|''[[Bandit King of Texas]]'' || [[Fred C. Brannon]] || [[Allan Lane]], [[Helene Stanley]] || Western || [[Republic Pictures|Republic]]

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|''[[Barbary Pirate (film)|Barbary Pirate]]'' || [[Lew Landers]] || [[Donald Woods (actor)|Donald Woods]], [[Trudy Marshall]] || Adventure || [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]

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|''[[Batman and Robin (serial)|Batman and Robin]]''|| [[Spencer Gordon Bennet|S.G. Bennet]] || [[Robert Lowery (actor)|Robert Lowery]], [[Johnny Duncan (actor)|Johnny Duncan]], [[Poni Adams|Jane Adams]] || Serial ||

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|''[[The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend]]''||[[Preston Sturges]]||[[Betty Grable]], [[Cesar Romero]], [[Rudy Vallée]] ||Western||[[20th Century Fox]]

|''[[The Big Cat (1949 film)|The Big Cat]]''|| [[Phil Karlson]] || [[Lon McCallister]], [[Peggy Ann Garner]], [[Preston Foster]] || Adventure || [[Eagle-Lion Films]]

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|''[[The Big Sombrero (film)|The Big Sombrero]]'' || [[Frank McDonald (director)|Frank McDonald]] || [[Gene Autry]], [[Elena Verdugo]] || Western || [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]

|''[[Black Midnight (1949 film)|Black Midnight]]'' || [[Budd Boetticher]] || [[Roddy McDowall]], [[Damian O'Flynn]] || Western || [[Monogram Pictures|Monogram]]. Boetticher's 1st western<ref>http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/68905/Black-Midnight/</ref>

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|''[[The Bribe]]''|| [[Robert Z. Leonard]]|| [[Robert Taylor (actor)|Robert Taylor]], [[Ava Gardner]], [[Charles Laughton]], [[Vincent Price]]||[[Film noir]] ||[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]]

|''[[Brimstone (1949 film)|Brimstone]]'' || [[Joseph Kane]] || [[Rod Cameron (actor)|Rod Cameron]], [[Walter Brennan]], [[Lorna Gray]] || Western || [[Republic Pictures|Republic]]

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|''[[Bruce Gentry]]''|| [[Spencer Gordon Bennet|Spencer Bennet]] ||[[Tom Neal]], [[Judy Clark]] || Serial ||[[Republic Pictures|Republic]]

|''[[The Cat and the Mermouse]]''|| ||[[Tom and Jerry]] ||[[Animated]] ||

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|''[[Champion (1949 film)|Champion]]''||[[Mark Robson]] ||[[Kirk Douglas]], [[Arthur Kennedy (actor)|Arthur Kennedy]], [[Marilyn Maxwell]] ||[[Film noir]] || [[United Artists]]; 6 [[Academy Award|Oscar]] nominations

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|''[[Chicken Every Sunday]]''|| [[George Seaton]] || [[Dan Dailey]], [[Celeste Holm]], [[Colleen Townsend]] || Comedy || [[20th Century Fox]]

|''[[Cover Up (1949 film)|Cover Up]]''|| [[Alfred E. Green]] ||[[William Bendix]], [[Dennis O'Keefe]] ||[[Film noir]] || [[United Artists]]

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|''[[The Crime Doctor's Diary]]'' || [[Seymour Friedman]] || [[Warner Baxter]], [[Lois Maxwell]] || Mystery || [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]. Last of [[Crime Doctor (character)|series]]

|''[[A Dangerous Profession]]''|| [[Ted Tetzlaff]] || [[George Raft]], [[Ella Raines]], [[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]] || [[Film noir]] || [[RKO Pictures|RKO]]

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|''[[Dating Do's and Don'ts]]''|| || || ||

|''[[Daughter of the Jungle]]'' || [[George Blair (director)|George Blair]] || [[Lois Hall]], [[Sheldon Leonard]] || Adventure || [[Republic Pictures|Republic]]

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|''[[Dear Wife]]'' || [[Richard Haydn]] || [[William Holden]], [[Joan Caulfield]] || Comedy || [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]

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|''[[The Devil's Henchman]]''|| [[Seymour Friedman]] ||[[Warner Baxter]], [[Mary Beth Hughes]] ||Drama || [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]

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|''[[Down to the Sea in Ships (1949 film)|Down to the Sea in Ships]]''||[[Henry Hathaway]] ||[[Richard Widmark]], [[Lionel Barrymore]] ||Adventure || [[20th Century Fox]]; remake of [[Down to the Sea in Ships (1922 film)|1922 silent film]]

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|''[[Dunked in the Deep]]''|| [[Jules White]] ||[[The Three Stooges]] ||[[Short subject]] ||

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|''[[Easy Living (1949 film)|Easy Living]]''|| [[Jacques Tourneur]] || [[Victor Mature]], [[Lucille Ball]], [[Lizabeth Scott]] || Drama || [[RKO Pictures|RKO]]

|''[[Edward, My Son]]''||[[George Cukor]] ||[[Spencer Tracy]], [[Deborah Kerr]], [[Ian Hunter (actor)|Ian Hunter]] ||Drama || [[MGM-British]]. Oscar nomination for Kerr

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|''[[Family Honeymoon]]''||[[Claude Binyon]] ||[[Claudette Colbert]], [[Fred MacMurray]] ||Comedy || [[Universal Pictures|Universal]]

|''[[Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc]]''|| || [[Kirk Alyn]], [[Rosemary LaPlanche]] || Serial ||

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|''[[The Fighting Kentuckian]]''||[[George Waggner]] ||[[John Wayne]], [[Oliver Hardy]], [[Vera Ralston]] ||Western ||[[Republic Pictures|Republic]]

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|''[[The Fighting O'Flynn]]'' || Arthur Pierson || [[Douglas Fairbanks Jr.]], [[Helena Carter]] || Adventure || [[Universal Pictures|Universal]]

|''[[Flame of Youth]]'' || [[R. G. Springsteen]] || [[Barbra Fuller]], [[Danny Sue Nolan]] || Drama || [[Republic Pictures|Republic]]

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|''[[Flamingo Road (1949 film)|Flamingo Road]]''||[[Michael Curtiz]] ||[[Joan Crawford]], [[Zachary Scott]], [[Sydney Greenstreet]] ||Drama || [[Warner Bros.]]; based on the play

|''[[For Scent-imental Reasons]]''|| || ||[[Animated]] ||

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|''[[The Fountainhead (film)|The Fountainhead]]''||[[King Vidor]] ||[[Gary Cooper]], [[Patricia Neal]], [[Raymond Massey]] ||Drama || [[Warner Bros.]]; based on [[Ayn Rand]] novel

|''[[Frigid Hare]]''|| ||[[Bugs Bunny]] ||[[Animated]] ||

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|''[[The Gal Who Took the West]]'' || [[Frederick de Cordova]] || [[Yvonne De Carlo]], [[Scott Brady]] || Western || [[Universal Pictures|Universal]]

|''[[The Great Lover (1949 film)|The Great Lover]]'' || [[Alexander Hall]] || [[Bob Hope]], [[Rhonda Fleming]] || Comedy || [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]

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|''[[The Hasty Heart]]''||[[Vincent Sherman]] ||[[Ronald Reagan]], [[Patricia Neal]], [[Richard Todd]] ||Drama || [[Warner Bros.]]

|''[[High Diving Hare]]''|| ||[[Bugs Bunny]] ||[[Animated]] ||

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|''[[Holiday Affair]]''||Don Hartman ||[[Robert Mitchum]], [[Janet Leigh]] ||Romantic comedy ||[[RKO Pictures|RKO]]

|''[[Holiday in Havana]]''|| [[Jean Yarborough]] || [[Desi Arnaz]], [[Mary Hatcher]], [[Ann Doran]] ||Musical comedy ||[[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]

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|''[[Home of the Brave (1949 film)|Home of the Brave]]''||[[Mark Robson]] ||[[Jeff Corey]], [[Lloyd Bridges]] ||Drama || [[United Artists]]

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|''[[House of Strangers]]''||[[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]]||[[Edward G. Robinson]], [[Susan Hayward]], [[Richard Conte]], [[Efrem Zimbalist Jr.]] ||Crime drama ||[[20th Century Fox]]

|''[[Incident (film)|Incident]]'' || [[William Beaudine]] || [[Jane Frazee]], [[Joyce Compton]] || Crime || [[Monogram Pictures|Monogram]]

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|''[[The Inspector General (film)|The Inspector General]]''||[[Henry Koster]] ||[[Danny Kaye]], [[Walter Slezak]], [[Barbara Bates]] ||Musical comedy || [[Warner Bros.]] [[Golden Globe]] Best Original Score

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|''[[It Happens Every Spring]]''||[[Lloyd Bacon]] ||[[Ray Milland]], [[Jean Peters]], [[Paul Douglas (actor)|Paul Douglas]] ||Comedy ||[[20th Century Fox]]

|''[[Jigsaw (1949 film)|Jigsaw]]''||[[Fletcher Markle]] ||[[Franchot Tone]], [[Jean Wallace]] || [[Film noir]] || [[United Artists]]

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|''[[Johnny Allegro]]'' || Ted Tetzlaff || [[George Raft]], [[George Macready]], [[Nina Foch]] || Crime || [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]

| ''[[Kazan (1949 film)|Kazan]]'' || [[Will Jason]] || [[Stephen Dunne (actor)|Stephen Dunne]], [[Lois Maxwell]] || Western || [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]

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|''[[King of the Rocket Men]]''||[[Fred C. Brannon]] || [[Tris Coffin]], [[Mae Clarke]] ||Serial ||

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|''[[A Kiss in the Dark (1949 film)|A Kiss in the Dark]]'' || [[Delmer Daves]] || [[Jane Wyman]], [[David Niven]] || Comedy || [[Warner Bros.]]

|''[[Knock on Any Door]]''||[[Nicholas Ray]] ||[[Humphrey Bogart]], [[John Derek]], [[George Macready]] ||Drama ||[[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]; from [[Willard Motley]] novel

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|''[[The Lady Takes a Sailor]]'' || [[Michael Curtiz]] || [[Jane Wyman]], [[Dennis Morgan]] || Comedy || [[Warner Bros.]]

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|''[[The Lone Wolf and His Lady]]'' || John Hoffman || [[Ron Randell]], [[June Vincent]] || Mystery || [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]. Last of [[Lone Wolf (character)|series]]

|''[[Ma and Pa Kettle (film)|Ma and Pa Kettle]]''|| [[Charles Lamont]] || [[Marjorie Main]], [[Percy Kilbride]] || Comedy || [[Universal Pictures|Universal]]. ''[[The Egg and I]]'' sequel

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|''[[Make Believe Ballroom]]'' || [[Joseph Santley]] || [[Ruth Warrick]], [[Ron Randell]] || Drama || [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]

|''[[Make Mine Laughs]]'' || [[Richard Fleischer]] || [[Ray Bolger]], [[Joan Davis]], [[Dennis Day]] || Musical || [[RKO Pictures|RKO]]

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|''[[Malice in the Palace]]''||[[Jules White]] ||[[The Three Stooges]] ||[[Slapstick]] ||

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|''[[Manhandled (1949 film)|Manhandled]]''||[[Lewis R. Foster]] ||[[Dorothy Lamour]], [[Dan Duryea]], [[Sterling Hayden]] ||[[Film noir]] ||[[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]

|''[[My Own True Love]]'' || [[Compton Bennett]] || [[Phyllis Calvert]], [[Melvyn Douglas]], [[Wanda Hendrix]] || Drama || [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]

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|''[[Never Fear]]'' || [[Ida Lupino]] || [[Sally Forrest]], [[Hugh O'Brian]] || Drama || [[Eagle-Lion Films|Eagle-Lion]]

|''[[One Last Fling]]'' || [[Peter Godfrey (director)|Peter Godfrey]] || [[Alexis Smith]] || Comedy || [[Warner Bros.]]

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|''[[Outpost in Morocco]]'' || [[Robert Florey]] || [[George Raft]], [[Marie Windsor]] || Adventure || [[United Artists]]

|''[[Pinky (1949 film)|Pinky]]''||[[Elia Kazan]] ||[[Jeanne Crain]], [[Ethel Barrymore]], [[Ethel Waters]] ||Drama || [[20th Century Fox]]. 3 [[Academy Award|Oscar]] nominations

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|''[[The Pirates of Capri]]'' || [[Edgar G. Ulmer]] || [[Louis Hayward]], [[Binnie Barnes]], [[Mariella Lotti]] || Adventure || [[Film Classics]]

|''[[Port of New York (film)|Port of New York]]''|| [[László Benedek]] ||[[Scott Brady]], [[K. T. Stevens]], [[Yul Brynner]] ||[[Film noir]] || [[Eagle-Lion Films|Eagle-Lion]]

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|''[[Prince of Foxes (film)|Prince of Foxes]]''||[[Henry King (director)|Henry King]] ||[[Tyrone Power]], [[Orson Welles]] ||Drama || [[20th Century Fox]]

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|''[[Rabbit Hood]]''|| ||[[Bugs Bunny]] ||[[Animated]] ||

|''[[Radar Patrol vs Spy King]]''|| || [[Kirk Alyn]] ||Serial ||

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|''[[Rebel Rabbit]]''|| ||[[Bugs Bunny]] ||[[Animated]] ||

|''[[Red Canyon (1949 film)|Red Canyon]]'' || [[George Sherman]] || [[Ann Blyth]], [[Howard Duff]], [[George Brent]] || Western || [[Universal Pictures|Universal]]

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|''[[Red, Hot and Blue (film)|Red, Hot and Blue]]''|| [[John Farrow]] || [[Betty Hutton]], [[Victor Mature]], [[William Demarest]] || Musical comedy || [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]

|''[[Reign of Terror (film)|Reign of Terror]]'' || [[Anthony Mann]] || [[Robert Cummings]], [[Arlene Dahl]] || Suspense || [[Eagle-Lion Films|Eagle-Lion]]

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|''[[Riders of the Whistling Pines]]'' || [[John English (director)|John English]] || [[Gene Autry]], [[Patricia Barry]] || Western || [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]

|''[[Rimfire (film)|Rimfire]]'' || B. Reeves Eason || [[Mary Beth Hughes]], [[James Millican]] || Western || [[Lippert Pictures|Lippert]]

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|''[[Rope of Sand]]''|| [[William Dieterle]] || [[Burt Lancaster]], [[Paul Henreid]], [[Claude Rains]] || Adventure || [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]

|''[[Rose of the Yukon]]'' || [[George Blair (director)|George Blair]] || [[Myrna Dell]], [[Steve Brodie (actor)|Steve Brodie]] || Western || [[Republic Pictures|Republic]]

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|''[[Rustlers (1949 film)|Rustlers]]''|| [[Lesley Selander]] || [[Tim Holt]], [[Richard Martin (RKO actor)|Richard Martin]], [[Martha Hyer]] || Western || [[RKO Pictures|RKO]]

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|''[[Samson and Delilah (1949 film)|Samson and Delilah]]''||[[Cecil B. DeMille]] ||[[Hedy Lamarr]], [[Victor Mature]], [[Angela Lansbury]] ||[[Biblical]] [[drama]] || [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]. 5 [[Academy Award|Oscar]] nominations

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|''[[Sand (1949 film)|Sand]]'' || [[Henry King (director)|Henry King]] || [[Coleen Gray]], [[Mark Stevens (actor)|Mark Stevens]] || Western || [[20th Century Fox]]. [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-nominated

|''[[Satan's Cradle]]'' || [[Ford Beebe]] || [[Duncan Renaldo]], [[Ann Savage]] || Western || [[United Artists]]. [[Cisco Kid]]

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|''[[Search for Danger]]''||[[Jack Bernhard]]||[[John Calvert (magician)|John Calvert]], [[Albert Dekker]]||Crime|| [[Film Classics]]

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|''[[The Secret of St. Ives]]'' || [[Phil Rosen]] || [[Richard Ney]], [[Vanessa Brown]] || Historical || [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]

|''[[She Wore a Yellow Ribbon]]''||[[John Ford]] ||[[John Wayne]], [[Joanne Dru]], [[Ben Johnson (actor)|Ben Johnson]] ||Western || [[RKO Pictures|RKO]]. [[Academy Award|Oscar]] for cinematography

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|''[[Shockproof]]''|| [[Douglas Sirk]] || [[Cornel Wilde]], [[Patricia Knight]] || Drama || [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]

|''[[So Dear to My Heart]]'' || [[Harold D. Schuster]] || [[Burl Ives]], [[Beulah Bondi]], [[Harry Carey (actor)|Harry Carey]] || Family || [[Walt Disney Productions|Disney]]

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|''[[Song of Surrender]]'' || [[Mitchell Leisen]] || [[Wanda Hendrix]], [[Claude Rains]] || Drama || [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]

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|''[[Sorrowful Jones]]''|| [[Sidney Lanfield]] ||[[Bob Hope]], [[Lucille Ball]] ||Comedy || [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]. [[Damon Runyon]] story; remake of [[Little Miss Marker|1934 film]]

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|''[[South of St. Louis]]''|| [[Ray Enright]] || [[Joel McCrea]], [[Zachary Scott]], [[Victor Jory]] || Western || [[Warner Bros.]]

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|''[[Stampede (film)|Stampede]]'' || [[Lesley Selander]] || [[Rod Cameron (actor)|Rod Cameron]], [[Gale Storm]] || Western || [[Allied Artists Pictures Corporation|Allied Artists]]

|''[[Strange Bargain]]'' || Will Price || [[Martha Scott]], [[Jeffrey Lynn]] || Film noir || [[RKO Pictures|RKO]]

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|''[[Streets of Laredo (film)|Streets of Laredo]]''|| [[Leslie Fenton]] || [[William Holden]], [[William Bendix]], [[Macdonald Carey]], [[Mona Freeman]] || Western || [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]; remake of ''[[The Texas Rangers (1936 film)|The Texas Rangers]]''

|''[[The Story of Seabiscuit]]'' || [[David Butler (director)|David Butler]] || [[Shirley Temple]], [[Barry Fitzgerald]] || Biographical || [[Warner Bros.]]

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|''[[Sword in the Desert]]'' || [[George Sherman]] || [[Dana Andrews]], [[Märta Torén]] || War || [[Universal Pictures|Universal]]

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|''[[Take One False Step]]'' || [[Chester Erskine]] || [[Shelley Winters]], [[William Powell]] || [[Film noir]] || [[Universal Pictures|Universal]]

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|''[[Task Force (film)|Task Force]]''||[[Delmer Daves]] ||[[Gary Cooper]], [[Jane Wyatt]], [[Walter Brennan]] ||War || [[Warner Bros.]] 8th Cooper-Brennan pairing

|''[[Tennis Chumps]]''||[[Hanna-Barbera]] ||[[Tom and Jerry]] ||[[Animated]] ||

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|''[[They Live by Night]]''||[[Nicholas Ray]] ||[[Farley Granger]], [[Cathy O'Donnell]], [[Howard Da Silva]] ||[[Film noir]] || [[RKO Pictures|RKO]]; Ray's 1st film; from novel ''Thieves Like Us''

|''[[The Threat (1949 film)|The Threat]]'' || [[Felix E. Feist]] || [[Michael O'Shea (actor)|Michael O'Shea]], [[Virginia Grey]] || Crime || [[RKO Pictures|RKO]]

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|''[[Tokyo Joe (1949 film)|Tokyo Joe]]''||[[Stuart Heisler]] ||[[Humphrey Bogart]], [[Sessue Hayakawa]] ||War ||[[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]

|''[[Trail of the Yukon]]''||[[William Beaudine]]||[[Kirby Grant]], [[Suzanne Dalbert]]||Western|| [[Monogram Pictures|Monogram]]; [[Corporal Rod Webb (film series)|Corporal Rod Webb]] series

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|''[[Trapped (1949 film)|Trapped]]''||[[Richard Fleischer]] ||[[Lloyd Bridges]], [[John Hoyt]] ||[[Film noir]] || [[Eagle-Lion Films|Eagle-Lion]]

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|''[[Tulsa (film)|Tulsa]]''||[[Stuart Heisler]] ||[[Susan Hayward]], [[Robert Preston (actor)|Robert Preston]] ||Drama || [[Eagle-Lion Films|Eagle-Lion]]

|''[[We Were Strangers]]''|| [[John Huston]] || [[Jennifer Jones]], [[John Garfield]], [[Pedro Armendáriz]] || Adventure || [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]

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|''[[Which Is Witch]]''||[[Friz Freleng]] ||[[Bugs Bunny]] ||[[Animated]] ||

|''[[A Woman's Secret]]''|| [[Nicholas Ray]]|| [[Maureen O'Hara]], [[Melvyn Douglas]], [[Gloria Grahame]]||[[Film noir]] || [[RKO Pictures|RKO]]

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|''[[Yes Sir, That's My Baby (film)|Yes Sir, That's My Baby]]''|| [[George Sherman]] || [[Donald O'Connor]], [[Gloria DeHaven]] || Musical || [[Universal Pictures|Universal]]