Movies 1948 Page 39

Directed by Wancang Bu.

The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother.

Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks.

The Stooges are janitors working in a newspaper office. When an anonymous caller phones in a tip about the theft of a famous diamond, the boys decide...

The story of an ex-sea captain who uses devious means to make his salvage company a success. Based on Longfellow's famous poem.

The Italian Communist Party in 1948: a force for progress and reform or the last refuge of a desperate population and a threat to the rest of Europe?

Distinctive sales training film on the hierarchy of human needs, starring a young John Forsythe.

Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for...

A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.

Story of a farmer's wife waiting for her husband to return home from the war.

Seal Island is a 1948 American documentary film directed by James Algar. It won an Academy Award in 1949 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).

In this psychological thriller, an avaricious man covets his stepbrother's home. The greedy fellow knows that his stepbrother has a heart condition...

A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past.

A gang of bank robbers is pursued by an insurance investigator.

The life of the legendary Texas cowboy with his horse, Widowmaker, and how his romance with Slue Foot Sue disrupted it.

Millions of years scroll by in 10 minutes, illustrated by ingenious designers: this is the geological history of Canada.

The misadventures of a woman and her failed relationships. Everything is represented through the tango mythology.

A factual reconstruction of the sabotage events which took place to prevent Hitler's Germany from getting the heavy water needed to make an atomic...

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.

At the race track, various spectators (all Goofy lookalikes) are playing the ponies. A posh rich Goofy bets on the equally posh Snapshot III while...

After studying in America, South Seas Prince Sigore returns home with plans to change things on his island. He's opposed by the sultan's...

Part of the BFI six-part series entitled "Your Children and You."

An animated short about Texas. Includes a sing-a-long of "Deep in the Heart of Texas."

A banker is trying to cheat people out of their silver-rich land. Hoppy learns that the banker is in league with an outlaw gang.

This time the Durango Kid confronts an expert gambler.

Cold War-era cartoon aimed at convincing workers that increased productivity brings about greater purchasing power. The second of seven...

St. Ives and the painters based in the town, and the surrounding areas, are showcased in this fascinating documentary.

Diving logs of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Documentary Maritime Resources of Mahdia, Tunisia. Selected for Canes International Film 1949 and 1951.

Popeye is Robin Hood; he's got a sidekick, Little John. Bluto is the tax collector, and Olive is the owner/barmaid at the local pub. Bluto comes to...

A comic short film by Riccardo Freda.

A film about the expansion of the Central Line beyond Stratford.

This silent film from 1948 "The Creation of Life" briefly demonstrates how a fetus forms and graphically shows different types of births. It was made...

Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is called in to solve the murder of a man from whom two lead soldiers were stolen. Drummond learns that the two...

The Durango Kid, along with assistance from sidekick Smiley Burnett, investigates a pair of murders that threaten to fuel a range war.

Six-year-old Betty visits a poultry farm, where she helps feed the chickens, sees them at various stages of development, watches a boy clean the eggs...

"Clio Capers" is a short film about the Clio Club, the Latin club James Blue belonged to at Jefferson High School in Portland, Oregon. The film...

1948 ARC Identifier 46998 / Local Identifier 306.131. FEATURES THE PERSONALITY, PHILOSOPHY, TECHNIQUES AND ARTISTRY OF EDWARD WESTON, AS SHOWN...

A mother turtle buries her eggs in the sand. While she is away, one of the egg partly hatches and begins roaming the countryside trying to finish...

A starving wolf tries to find something to eat but keeps striking out. He even tries to cook a turtle.

Oil Can Harry captures Mighty Mouse and traps him in the Mohave desert about to be eaten by vultures. Harry kidnaps Pearl Pureheart's father, the...