The Best of 1947

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A young married couple flee both the police and a gangster out for revenge.

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

Romantic comedy about a high school girl who falls in love with a playboy artist. The girl's older sister, who's a judge, does not approve of the relationship.

A high-class crook gets in trouble with the law.

In British East Africa, a fatal triangle develops involving a frustrated wife, a weak and cowardly husband, and an English big-game hunter who comes between the couple.

Frankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex-partner. But Prohibition bootlegging didn't prepare Frankie for Big Business.

A commercial artist having an affair with a married attorney becomes involved with a returning soldier and must choose between the two.

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

Two U.S. Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.

A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.

Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.

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

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

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.