Most Viewed Year 1949

When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hedy Lamarr

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Joseph Cotten

Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil...

Genre: Romance

Cast: June Allyson

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Cagney

A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of the man he was convicted on killing, set out to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ingrid Bergman

The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Bing Crosby

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Cooper

Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944....

Genre: Action

Cast: Van Johnson

After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sally Forrest

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kirk Douglas

In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Olivia de Havilland

A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Terry Moore

A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Ireland

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Crain

In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story...

Genre: War

Cast: Gregory Peck

Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Mason

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dennis Price

Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Mitchum

An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by...

Genre: Drama

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The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The...

Genre: Western

Cast: Clayton Moore

Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the...

Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Cast: Jack La Rue

Fireside Theater is an American anthology drama series that ran on NBC from 1949 to 1958, and was the first successful filmed series on American...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gene Raymond

BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including children's entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los...

Genre: Reality

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Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maurice Joyce

Family Affairs was the first television serial broadcast by BBC Television.

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Cast: Madoline Thomas

Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gloria Winters

The Plainclothesman was an American crime drama series broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network.

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Martin Kane, Private Eye was an early radio series and television crime series sponsored by United States Tobacco Company.

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An annual awards ceremony honoring the best in U.S. prime time television programming as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

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Man Against Crime, one of the first television programs about private eyes, ran on CBS, the DuMont Television Network and NBC from October 7, 1949 to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ralph Bellamy

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Cast: Ed Wynn

The Clock is a 30-minute American anthology television series based upon the American Broadcasting Company radio series which ran from 1946–48....

Genre: Crime

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Based on a popular radio series, each show tells a different reporter's Big Story, a true story selected from newspapers across the United States....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Burgess Meredith

A Woman to Remember is a soap opera which ran on the DuMont Television Network from February 21, 1949 to July 15, 1949. The show initially ran in...

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Cast: Frankie Thomas

The Silver Theatre is a television series that was broadcast on the CBS television network from 1949 to 1950. It was a live anthology series...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Conrad Nagel

Mama was a weekly Maxwell House and Post-sponsored CBS television comedy-drama series from July 1, 1949 until March 17, 1957.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dick Van Patten

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Cast: Jackie Gleason

Hands of Murder was an American mystery/anthology series that aired on the DuMont Television Network.

Genre: Mystery

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