1947: Year's Best Movies

Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.

A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?

In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.

A talented boxer's young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.

A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.

A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.

A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.

After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.

The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.

A high school girl falls for a playboy artist, with screwball results.

A debonair angel comes to Earth to help an Episcopalian bishop and his wife in their quest to raise money for the new church.

A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.

The true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder.

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try to prove his innocence.

Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter.

A thief arrested for a jewelry heist initially refuses to give up his accomplices, but he changes his mind after his wife dies under mysterious circumstances.

At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.

Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.

A soldier spends the weekend with an actress after being stood up by her friend. Will he be able to change her cynical attitude towards love?

A clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy.

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.