25 Favorite Films - 1948

A kind doctor volunteers to tutor a deaf-mute woman, but scandal starts to swirl when his pupil is raped and falls pregnant.

A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.

A family that hires a live-in babysitter is surprised when he turns out to be a man who's a quirky genius.

Police Lieut. Candella, longtime friend of the Rome family, walks a tightrope in the case of cop-killer Martin Rome.

Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.

Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.

A drifter visits the family hotel of a war buddy who was killed in action only to find that a Chicago mobster and his gang have taken over the place. As a hurricane approaches, a confrontation ensues.

A young writer recalls her ups and downs of growing up as one of four children to Norwegian immigrant parents in 1910s San Francisco.

Romantic misunderstandings abound when spouses suspect each other of being unfaithful, and a nightclub singer takes a cruise under a false identity.

A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.

A man and his wife decide that they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It's a lot more trouble than they think.

During WW2, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever but years later his sin comes back to haunt him when Joe's son plans to marry Deever's daughter.

In post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother.

A con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money she's received to build a memorial to her war hero husband, but winds up falling in love with her instead.

A nightclub performer hires a naive chorus girl to become his new dance partner to make his former partner jealous and to prove he can make any partner a star.

Spurned by the married county attorney she loves, the wife of a newspaperman tries every trick to lift her husband into a political career at the expense of her would-be lover and the she-lawyer he illicitly falls for.

An escaped psychopathic killer who takes the family and neighbors of police psychologist hostage reveals a recurring nightmare to the doctor.

Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.

A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.

A covert FBI agent infiltrates a ruthless gangster mob, but his life is at risk from a mysterious informant who funnels inside information to the hoodlums.

The great lover Don Juan comes to the assistance of his queen.

Spurned by the married county attorney she loves, the wife of a newspaperman tries every trick to lift her husband into a political career at the expense of her would-be lover and the she-lawyer he illicitly falls for.

A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.

When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely claiming that they're married.

The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.