1949: Year's Best Movies

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.

A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.

Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.

During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective seeks advice from a seasoned colleague while trying to track down his stolen Colt pistol.

The rise and fall of a grass-roots rural politician who eventually becomes mired in the sort of political corruption he vehemently railed against on his way to the governor's mansion.

After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.

An armored truck driver and his ex-wife conspire with a gang to have his own truck robbed on the route.

Boxer Midge Kelly rises to fame...mainly by stepping on other people.

A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.

A singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.

A naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.

An attorney defends a young hoodlum charged with murdering a policeman using the oppressiveness of his client's upbringing in the slums to appeal to the sympathies of the jury.

Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.

Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.

Outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight.

Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

A village postman with no sense of humour delivers his mail via bicycle on the day the travelling fair comes to town. He is disrupted by a short film about US speed and efficiency and the playful teasing of the village folk.

A light-skinned black woman falls in love with a white doctor, though he is unaware of her true race.

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.