The Best Movies Of 1946

Jim Stewart comes to Mesa City and buys a ranch from publisher Matt Edwards, who is confined to a wheelchair. The area is terrorized by an outlaw gang known as The Phantoms. When Jim's cattle herd is ...

A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.

Regina Linnanheimo plays Sylvi, whose child is run over by a bus, prompting her to drink poison. She goes blind in the process, causing her husband to lust after her much younger sister. After undergo...

The case of missing jewels, murder and plastics is cracked by The Shadow.

After the victory on Napoleon a hussar returns to Moscow. He is met by a desperate man who offers him a deal: marry his daughter before she turns 18 and inherit a huge fortune from her rich, eccentric...

Yukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved of his post for his political teachings during a purge of anti-militarism in pre-war Kyoto. She is court...

It's a holiday favourite for a long time. George Bailey has been giving to the people of the Falls for a long time. Rich skinflint Mr is prevented by all of that. George's modest building and loan com...

Two young men set out on a fishing trip. They run into a gang of criminals who are menacing two young women.

Charlie became suspicious after three men were convicted of bank robberies. Charlie discovered that the fingerprints used to convict the men had been forged. Charlie searches for the true bank robbers...

A convicted thief hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. The innocent buyers of the boxes start to be murdered.

The Allied invasion from July 1943 to the winter of 1944 was followed by six vignettes.

A society sleuth is looking for a society matron's lost jewels.

This Warner Bros. The Sports Parade series short chronicles the attempt by a group of men to navigate the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to Lake Mead. Led by Norman D. Nevills, nine men under...

The train wreck that George Steele experienced never happened. Is he cracking up or is he the victim of a plot?

A man working for the War Crimes Commission believes that an important Nazi official has moved to Connecticut.

An aspiring singer tries to break into films during the early talkie era. She is hired to dub the singing and speaking voice of a silent-movie favorite. Sworn to secrecy, the fill-in must stand by in ...

Live footage from concentration camps after the liberation, and the complex transport and lodging of masses of prisoners of war and other deported people back to their home countries, at the end of Wo...

Shown in Cannes 1946.

The trilogy of films was produced for the U.S. John Huston wrote the government. Some combat veterans have scars that are more psychological than physical. The film follows patients and staff. At the ...

The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) sets out on a double mission of rescuing a girl from forsaking her true love by marrying a supposedly wealthy suitor to save the old family hacienda, and he is also afte...

A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.

The movie follows the clock round as music hall clown Beby takes off his make up, goes home for a meal, looks at photos and goes to bed to rise, spend a day in the village and perform with his new par...

A schooner disappears at sea without a trace. Years later, evidence of possible survivors prompts the mother of the schooner's mate Jose to hire a tuna boat to investigate. They discover the lad livin...

Ex con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into ...

It is the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI, the dream of the day when he will finally return home. The day has arrived for three World War II veterans. For each man, the dream is about to bec...

Robert, an upper-class officer, meets and falls in love with Iris, a house maid. His family will do anything to stop her from marrying him.

Sally Warren is rich and beautiful but her husband doesn't like four-legged mammals. A popular lecturer on the ladies club circuit, Jeff Warren is a successful author and Civil War scholar. It's obvio...

Jane Budden went to the big city to find and marry a wealthy man. She met and married a struggling inventor.

The Martins and the Coys are two feuding clans. One day, Grandpa Coy gets caught in the Martin henhouse, and a massive battle erupts, leaving only a Martin girl and a Coy boy. Love conquers all for a ...

A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.

A new town doctor arrives at the same time as local Indians needprotection from troublemaking looters.

Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps where, along with the mentally ill, are also hiding a Jewish girl and a Swiss doctor who might be a...

The Shadow vows to track down the real killer after being accused of murdering a crooked newspaper reporter.

Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

An orphan Irish boy is taken in by his mother's Scottish relatives.

A country girl, wanting to break into show-business, comes to New York City and, by her actions, manages to restore the optimism of a jaded and disillusioned nightclub owner. Eventually, she marries t...

Johnny Mack Brown stars in the formula oater Shadows on the Range. The film was made at a time when Monogram was experimenting with the notion of passing Brown off as a singing cowboy. While his voice...

In this Western, Ken Curtis, Columbia Pictures' low-budget answer to Gene Autry, romanced one of the studio's most beautiful starlets, Rita Hayworth-lookalike Dusty Anderson. She played Helen Wyatt, w...

A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.

A sculptor saved a madman from drown. He tricked the psycho into murdering his critics.

Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house and build a new and modern house instead.

Cultures clash when a Jewish boy wants to marry an Irish girl.

This was the only documentary made in the aftermath of the atomic bombings of 1945. Japanese filmmakers entered the two cities intent on making an appeal to the International Red Cross, but were promp...

Christine Evans, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the widowed American ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Evans, believes that she is no longer a young girl and that she has fully matured into adulthood. Ea...

A (male?!) mosquito army prepares for the attack. We see basic training, which includes an obstacle course (slapping hands, fly swatters), target practice on stuffed dummy human forms, and training fo...

The Duchess, the aunt of Red Ryder, comes to town to protect her property. Crawford, a town big-shot behind an outlaw gang, tries to prevent her from reaching her destination, but the attack is thwart...

Take-off on the "Duffy's Tavern" radio program, with tough-guy Eddie G. Robincat demanding a meal of mouse knuckles, "of which we ain't got none," waiter Filligan informs his absentee boss on the phon...