1947 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1947

Notable Films Released in 1947

U.S.A. unless stated

• 13 Rue Madeleine, starring James Cagney

A

• Along the Sungari River (Songhua-jiang shang) - (China)
• Angel and the Badman, starring John Wayne and Gail Russell

B

• The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, starring Cary Grant, Shirley Temple, Myrna Loy
• 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 - (Britain)
• Body and Soul, directed by Robert Rossen, starring John Garfield and Lilli Palmer
• Boomerang, 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 - (Britain)
• 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

C

• Captain Boycott, directed by Frank Launder, starring Stewart Granger - (Britain)
• Captain from Castile, starring Tyrone Power
• Cinderella (Zolushka) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Crossfire, starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame

D

• Daisy Kenyon, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews
• Dark Passage, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall`
• Dead Reckoning, starring Humphrey Bogart and 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
• A Double Life, starring Ronald Colman and Shelley Winters
• Down to Earth, starring Rita Hayworth and Larry Parks

E

• The Egg and I, starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray
• Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon (Ba qian li lu yun he yue) - (China)
• Escape Me Never, starring Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker, Errol Flynn
• The Exile, directed by Max Ophuls, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Maria Montez

F

• Fame is the Spur, a Boulting Brothers film, with Michael Redgrave - (Britain)
• The Farmer's Daughter, starring Loretta Young
• Fear in the Night, starring DeForest Kelley
• Fireworks, directed by Kenneth Anger
• Flesh Will Surrender (Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo), starring Aldo Fabrizi - (Italy)
• Forever Amber, starring Linda Darnell
• The Foxes of Harrow, starring Rex Harrison and Maureen O'Hara - (Britain/U.S.)
• Framed, starring Glenn Ford
• Frieda, directed by Basil Dearden, starring David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Mai Zetterling - (Britain)
• The Fugitive, starring Henry Fonda and Dolores del Río
• Fun and Fancy Free, an animated film from Disney and RKO

G

• The Garcias Return! (¡Vuelven los Garcia!), starring Pedro Infante - (Mexico)
• Gentleman's Agreement, starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, Celeste Holm, John Garfield
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison
• 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

HIJ

• Hi-De-Ho, starring Cab Calloway
• High Wall, starring Robert Taylor
• Honeymoon, starring Shirley Temple
• Hue and Cry, the first Ealing comedy, directed by Charles Crichton - (Britain)
• The Humpbacked Horse (Konyok Gorbunok) - (U.S.S.R.)
• An Ideal Husband, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Michael Wilding and Paulette Goddard - (Britain)
• If Winter Comes, starring Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Angela Lansbury
• It Always Rains on Sunday, starring Googie Withers and Jack Warner - (Britain)
• 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, starring Dick Powell

KL

• 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
• The Last Stage (Ostatni etap) - (Poland)
• 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 and Marie McDonald
• The Long Night, starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Bel Geddes
• The Lost Moment, starring Robert Cummings and Susan Hayward
• Lost Youth (Gioventù perduta), directed by Pietro Germi - (Italy)
• Lured, starring George Sanders and Lucille Ball

M

• The Macomber Affair, starring Gregory Peck and Joan Bennett
• Marriage in the Shadows (Ehe im Schatten) - (East Germany)
• Mine Own Executioner, starring Burgess Meredith - (Britain)
• Miracle on 34th Street, starring Edmund Gwenn, John Payne, Maureen O'Hara
• Monsieur Verdoux, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin
• Monsieur Vincent, starring Pierre Fresnay - (France)
• Moss Rose, starring Peggy Cummins and Victor Mature
• Mother Wore Tights, starring Betty Grable
• Mourning Becomes Electra, starring Rosalind Russell and Michael Redgrave
• My Favourite Brunette, starring Bob Hope
• My Wild Irish Rose, a biopic starring Dennis Morgan (as Chancellor Olcott)

N

• Nicholas Nickleby, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Stanley Holloway - (Britain)
• Nightmare Alley, starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell
• Nora Prentiss, starring Ann Sheridan

O

• Odd Man Out, directed by Carol Reed, starring James Mason and Robert Newton - (Britain)
• One Wonderful Sunday (Subarashiki Nichiyōbi), directed by Akira Kurosawa - (Japan)
• L'onorevole Angelina (Parliamentarian Angelina), directed by Luigi Zampa, starring Anna Magnani - (Italy)
• Out of the Past, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas

PQ

• 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)

R

• Railroaded!, directed by Anthony Mann, starring John Ireland and 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 and Judith Anderson
• 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

S

• 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 and Spencer Tracy
• Secret Agent (Podvig razvedchika), directed by Boris Barnet - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo
• A Ship to India (Skepp till India land), directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
• The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, starring Betty Grable
• Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman, starring Susan Hayward
• Snow Trail (Ginrei no hate), starring Toshirō Mifune - (Japan)
• Song of Scheherazade, starring Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Brian Donlevy
• So Well Remembered, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring John Mills and Martha Scott
• The Spring River Flows East (Yi jiang chun shui xiang dong liu) - (China)
• Story of a Bad Woman (Historia de una mala mujer) - (Argentina)

TUV

• T-Men, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Dennis O'Keefe
• They Made Me a Fugitive, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Trevor Howard - (Britain)
• They Won't Believe Me, starring Robert Young and Susan Hayward
• This Time for Keeps, starring Esther Williams and Jimmy Durante
• To Live in Peace (Vivere in pace) - (Italy)
• The Two Mrs. Carrolls, starring Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
• Uncle Silas, starring Jean Simmons - (Britain)
• Unconquered, starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard
• The Unfaithful, starring Ann Sheridan and Lew Ayres
• The Unsuspected, starring Claude Rains and Joan Caulfield
• The Voice of the Turtle, starring Ronald Reagan

WXYZ

• The Web, starring Ella Raines and Edmond O'Brien
• The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• The Woman on the Beach, starring Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan
• A Woman's Vengeance, starring Charles Boyer and Ann Blyth