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3. The BBC Television Newsreel (1948–1954)

15 min | News

BBC Television's first presentation of news items on the pattern of cinema newsreels.

Stars: Richard Baker, Edward Halliday

5. Brighton Rock (1948)

Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

In Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses, and a rival gang.

Director: John Boulting | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Harcourt Williams

Votes: 6,825 | Gross: $0.22M

9. The Winslow Boy (1948 TV Movie)

150 min | Drama

A young naval cadet is expelled for stealing. This will disgrace him for life in Edwardian England unless his family can clear his name. Based on true events.

Stars: Ann Castle, Alan Gordon, Ernest Haines, Winifred Hindle

10. The Adding Machine (1948 TV Movie)

105 min | Drama

After 25 years at his job, an accountant discovers that he will be replaced by an adding machine.

Stars: Stanley Maxted, Joan Young, Cecilia Eddy, Launce Maraschal

12. Short Commons (1948)

30 min | Talk-Show

A short series of three episodes dealing with austerity in post-war Britain.

14. Easy Money (1948)

Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

An anthology of four short stories centered around the topic of honestly--or dishonestly--winning the pools in postwar Britain.

Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Jack Warner, Marjorie Fielding, Yvonne Owen, Jack Watling

Votes: 217

15. Anna Karenina (1948)

Approved | 139 min | Drama, Romance

A married woman's affair with a dashing young officer has tragic results.

Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Hugh Dempster

Votes: 2,945

17. Daughter of Darkness (1948)

91 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Emily, a pretty young Irish girl, gets a job on an English farm owned by the Tallent family. The local men take to her but the women don't, objecting to her flirtatious nature with their ... See full summary »

Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Anne Crawford, Siobhan McKenna, Maxwell Reed, George Thorpe

Votes: 352

19. This Was a Woman (1948)

Passed | 102 min | Crime, Drama

A wife whose goal is power begins a game of manipulation that insidiously destroys her family.

Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Sonia Dresdel, Barbara White, Walter Fitzgerald, Cyril Raymond

Votes: 204

20. Vice Versa (1948)

Not Rated | 111 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Paul is sending his son Dick to boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other.

Director: Peter Ustinov | Stars: Roger Livesey, Kay Walsh, Petula Clark, David Hutcheson

Votes: 402

23. The Only Way (1948 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay who's hiding his true identity and purpose.

Stars: Andrew Osborn, Roger Snowdon, Harold Scott, Alan Judd

24. Who Killed Van Loon? (1948)

48 min | Crime, Drama

A man searching for a cache of diamonds rescues a Dutch cutter from a concentration camp and murders his partner, throwing the blame on the former's daughter.

Directors: Gordon Kyle, Lionel Tomlinson | Stars: Raymond Lovell, Kay Bannerman, Robert Wyndham, John Dodsworth

27. Pygmalion (1948 TV Movie)

150 min | Comedy, Drama

Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?

Stars: Ralph Michael, Margaret Lockwood, Arthur Wontner, Gordon Harker

Votes: 7

29. Gas Light (1948 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama, Thriller

A controlling husband tries to drive his wife mad, but why?

Stars: Sebastian Shaw, Angela Baddeley, Margaret Boyd, Jennifer Gray

30. Death in the Hand (1948)

43 min | Short, Mystery

A pianist aboard a train reads the palms of passengers and predicts their deaths. Soon those deaths begin to happen.

Director: A. Barr-Smith | Stars: Esme Percy, Ernest Jay, Cecile Chevreau, Carleton Hobbs

33. Blanche Fury (1948)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The childless widow of Allan Fury bequeaths the Fury estate to her Fuller relatives, but Allan's illegitimate son who masquerades as a servant hopes to grab the estate for himself.

Director: Marc Allégret | Stars: Stewart Granger, Valerie Hobson, Walter Fitzgerald, Michael Gough

Votes: 1,018

34. The Monkey's Paw (1948 TV Movie)

30 min | Drama, Thriller

The monkey's paw can make wishes come true. But not in the ways people expect.

Stars: Jack Livesey, Ronan O'Casey, Beatrice Varley, Finlay Currie

35. Castle Sinister (1948)

49 min | Horror, Thriller

1947. Drama. During the war, a British agent travels to the remote Glennye Castle in the wilds of Scotland to investigate a mysterious murder by a masked phantom. Directed by Oscar Burn.

Director: Oscar Burn | Stars: Mara Russell-Tavernan, Robert Essex, Karl Meir, James Liggat

Votes: 199

39. Corridor of Mirrors (1948)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Mystery

A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

Director: Terence Young | Stars: Eric Portman, Edana Romney, Barbara Mullen, Hugh Sinclair

Votes: 805

42. Turochamp (1948)

E | Sport

Turochamp is the first video game ever made in history.

Votes: 24

43. The Three Weird Sisters (1948)

Not Rated | 82 min | Crime, Drama

A secretary suspects that her employer's three elderly sisters are plotting to kill him after he announces he'll no longer finance their philanthropic endeavors.

Director: Daniel Birt | Stars: Nancy Price, Mary Clare, Mary Merrall, Nova Pilbeam

Votes: 185

46. Dick Barton, Detective (1948)

70 min | Action, Crime

Government agent Dick Barton battles a ring of Nazi spies who are planning to poison the entire London water supply.

Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Don Stannard, George Ford, Jack Shaw, Gillian Maude

Votes: 190

47. R.U.R. (1948 TV Movie)

60 min | Sci-Fi

A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explored dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologically driven utopia.

Director: Jan Bussell | Stars: Anthony Eustrel, Eugene Leahy, Derek Tansley, Maurice Bannister

49. Wuthering Heights (1948 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

Tale of love and revenge set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors.

Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Kieron Moore, Katharine Blake, Christine Lindsay, Patrick Macnee

Votes: 14

51. The Duke in Darkness (1948 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

A live television play set in 16th century France.

Stars: Archie Angus, Philip Ashley, Patrick Boxill, Edward Chaffers

52. I Killed the Count (1948 TV Movie)

Comedy, Thriller

Well, who did kill the Count? So very many people want to 'fess up to the dirty deed.

Stars: Frank Foster, Freda Bamford, Philip Leaver, Frederick Bradshaw

53. Affairs of a Rogue (1948)

91 min | Drama, History

The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.

Director: Alberto Cavalcanti | Stars: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Joan Hopkins, Cecil Parker, Margaretta Scott

Votes: 57

54. Spring in Park Lane (1948)

100 min | Comedy

A diamond merchant's niece falls for his new footman who is really an impoverished aristocrat.

Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Tom Walls, Peter Graves

Votes: 283

55. Holiday's with Pay (1948)

115 min | Comedy

The Rogers family head off by car to Blackpool where, after a musical interlude and fun on the prom, they have an adventure in a haunted house.

Director: John E. Blakeley | Stars: Frank Randle, Tessie O'Shea, Dan Young, Josef Locke

Votes: 41

56. The Shadow of the Glen (1948 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

On a dark and stormy night in County Wicklow a Tramp, seeking shelter from the wind and rain, knocks on the door of the loneliest cottage in Glen Malure, and finds himself at an impromptu wake.

Stars: E.J. Kennedy, Joyce Chancellor, Cyril Cusack

57. Cup-Tie Honeymoon (1948)

93 min | Comedy

Filmed in Rusholme, Manchester, for the great Mancunian Film Corporation, Cup-tie Honeymoon is a riotous post-war comedy from the North of England where the gags come quicker than the team's wingers!

Director: John E. Blakeley | Stars: Sandy Powell, Dan Young, Betty Jumel, Pat McGrath

Votes: 25

60. The Grand National (1948– )

Sport

The Grand National is a National Hunt horse race held annually at Aintree Racecourse, near Liverpool, England.

Stars: Clare Balding, Sue Barker, Ian Barlett, Ian Bartlett

Votes: 10

63. Scenes from Twelfth Night and Macbeth (1948 TV Movie)

60 min | Drama, Family

Film ''Scenes from Twelfth Night and Macbeth'' based on the novel by William Shakespeare

Director: Michael Barry | Stars: Robert Atkins, Patricia Neal, John Harris, Eric Lander

Votes: 8

64. Just William's Luck (1948)

92 min | Comedy

William and "the Nites of the Square Table" haunt a house - the plan is complicated by fur rustlers.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: John Powe, Muriel Aked, Hugh Cross, Kathleen Stuart

Votes: 116

65. Escape (1948)

Approved | 78 min | Thriller

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Rex Harrison, Peggy Cummins, William Hartnell, Norman Wooland

Votes: 426

66. Horror Maniacs (1948)

80 min | Drama, Horror

A story of body snatchers in Edinburgh, based on Burke and Hare.

Director: Oswald Mitchell | Stars: Tod Slaughter, Henry Oscar, Jenny Lynn, Winifred Melville

Votes: 235

67. Snowbound (1948)

Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A group of people search for Nazi treasure hidden in the Alps. From "The Lonely Skier" by Hammond Innes.

Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Robert Newton, Dennis Price, Stanley Holloway, Herbert Lom

Votes: 334

70. Against the Wind (1948)

Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama, War

A secret London school trains a motley group of men and women for sabotage work in German occupied Belgium during World War II. When one of them is captured by the Germans, five others are parachuted in to rescue him.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson

Votes: 747

71. My Brother Jonathan (1948)

Approved | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War

Doctor Jonathan Dakers in flashback tells his son Tony - a World War II veteran - about his life, dating from the 1900s. Whilst a medical student, he meets and falls for Edie. Before they ... See full summary »

Director: Harold French | Stars: Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Ronald Howard, Stephen Murray

Votes: 193

81. The Fatal Night (1948)

50 min | Thriller

A young American accepts a bet to spend a night in a haunted house in Mayfair.

Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: Lester Ferguson, Jean Short, Leslie Armstrong, Brenda Hogan

Votes: 28

83. No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948)

Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

John Blandish is worth $100 million. His heiress daughter is soon to be wed to Foster Harvey, who believes she's a cold, unfeeling woman, despite loving her. Her cold emotional state is in ... See full summary »

Director: St. John Legh Clowes | Stars: Jack La Rue, Hugh McDermott, Linden Travers, Walter Crisham

Votes: 761

87. Thark (1948 TV Movie)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

Mrs Frush complains to Sir Hector Benbow that Thark, the large country house she has bought from him, is haunted. Investigators and occupants spend a tense night searching for the spook.

Stars: Erik Chitty, Joan Mundy, Eleanor Summerfield, Kenneth Kove

88. One Night with You (1948)

Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Musical

Two strangers meet after they miss their trains, and end up spending a penniless day and night together. A British version of "It Happened One Night" (1934).

Director: Terence Young | Stars: Nino Martini, Patricia Roc, Bonar Colleano, Hugh Wakefield

Votes: 96

90. Idol of Paris (1948)

106 min | Drama

The story of the journey of a poor rag-man's daughter all the way to the Paris high-life.

Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: Michael Rennie, Beryl Baxter, Christine Norden, Miles Malleson

Votes: 22

95. An Inspector Calls (1948 TV Movie)

105 min | Drama

Another adaptation of J.B. Priestly's well-known drawing room play about a well-to-do family are about to sit down for a celebratory dinner, when a police understood arrives and informs ... See full summary »

Stars: Julien Mitchell, Mary Merrall, Joy Shelton, Derek Blomfield

96. Hamlet (1948)

Approved | 154 min | Drama

82 Metascore

Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.

Director: Laurence Olivier | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, John Laurie, Esmond Knight

Votes: 18,408 | Gross: $7.09M

97. The Boltons Revue (1948 TV Special)

45 min | Comedy, Music

An intimate revue, as played at the Boltons Theatre and the St. James's Theatre.

Director: Billy Milton | Stars: Daphne Anderson, Billy Milton, Rosaline Haddon, Donald Reed



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