1948 (Features/Shorts) Best to Worst
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1. Red River (1948)
Passed | 133 min | Drama, Western
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.
Directors: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson | Stars: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan
Votes: 34,413
10/10*
2. The Naked City (1948)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor
Votes: 15,510
10/10
3. 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: 6,826 | Gross: $0.22M
10/10
4. Key Largo (1948)
Approved | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A man visits his war buddy's family hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 43,995
10/10
5. Haredevil Hare (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Bugs is tricked into being the first rabbit shot into space. When he lands on the moon he finds Commander X-2 (later known as Marvin Martian) set to blow up planet Earth.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Stan Freberg, The Sportsmen Quartet
Votes: 2,112
10/10
6. The Truce Hurts (1948)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Tom, Jerry, and Butch sign a peace treaty.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: William Hanna, Billy Bletcher, Bob Laztny, Jack Sabel
Votes: 1,407
10/10
7. Buccaneer Bunny (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Bugs infuriates pirate Yosemite Sam by stealing his treasure and Yosemite chases Bugs onto the pirate ship.
Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,333
10/10
8. Rope (1948)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Dick Hogan
Votes: 153,752
9/10
9. Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Western, Animation
A western showdown of Bugs Bunny versus Yosemite Sam.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce, Michael Maltese, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 1,130
9/10
10. Scaredy Cat (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Porky and Sylvester spend the night in an old dark house where a cult of killer mice try to eliminate them both. Sylvester tries warning Porky, but he is convinced that Sylvester is a coward.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 2,029
9/10
11. Mouse Cleaning (1948)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mammy Two-Shoes threatens to throw Tom out of the house if he makes a mess. Jerry sees an opportunity to rid himself of his feline nemesis.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: William Hanna, Lillian Randolph
Votes: 1,074
9/10
12. The Stupor Salesman (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
When notorious bank robber Slug McSlug escapes the police dragnet by hiding out in an abandoned country house, he is visited by salesman Daffy Duck, who is absolutely determined to sell him something.
Director: Arthur Davis | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 558
9/10
13. Old Rockin' Chair Tom (1948)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mammy Two-Shoes replaces Tom with a younger cat who is a lightning-quick mouser. Tom and Jerry form an alliance in order to get rid of this dangerous newcomer.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: William Hanna, Lillian Randolph
Votes: 1,253
9/10
14. Rabbit Punch (1948)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Heckling the Champ gets Bugs into the world championship fight as the challenger.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher
Votes: 921
9/10
15. Force of Evil (1948)
Passed | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An unethical lawyer who wants to help his older brother becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket.
Director: Abraham Polonsky | Stars: John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Beatrice Pearson, Marie Windsor
Votes: 7,673
8/10
16. My Bunny Lies Over the Sea (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Bugs Bunny destroys a Scotsman's bagpipes and ends up challenging him at golf.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,293
9/10
17. Mouse Wreckers (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mice Hubie and Bertie try to remove Claude the Cat from his house by driving him insane.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Stan Freberg
Votes: 829
8/10
18. The Cat That Hated People (1948)
Passed | 7 min | Family, Animation, Comedy
A black cat explains reason after reason why he cannot stand people, and opts to relocate to the moon. When he does, he finds characters there that make him realize people aren't so bad anyway.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Paul Frees, Colleen Collins, Pinto Colvig, Pat McGeehan
Votes: 874
8/10
19. Kit for Cat (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Elmer Fudd takes in two cats during a cold night, but can only keep one. Both cats want to be chosen, so the battle is on.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Bea Benaderet
Votes: 819
8/10
20. Little 'Tinker (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
B.O. Skunk tries desperately to win the love of a girl, any girl, and goes to such lengths as imitating Frank Sinatra, vintage 1948.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Walter Craig, June Foray
Votes: 521
8/10
21. Daffy Duck Slept Here (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Porky Pig fights to get a room in the only vacant hotel in town. Unfortunately, he must share his room with Daffy Duck, who irritates Porky and makes the night uncomfortable for him.
Director: Robert McKimson | Stars: Mel Blanc, Frank Nelson
Votes: 756
8/10
22. The Paleface (1948)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Family, Western
Calamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian
Votes: 4,567
7/10
23. Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During the Cold War, at a California atomic research plant, an FBI agent and a Scotland Yard inspector join forces to eliminate a foreign atomic spy ring operating in the USA and the UK.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Louis Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, Louise Allbritton, Carl Esmond
Votes: 1,136
7/10
24. Road House (1948)
Passed | 95 min | Action, Drama, Film-Noir
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.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark
Votes: 3,162
7/10
25. The Street with No Name (1948)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
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.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan, Barbara Lawrence
Votes: 3,340
7/10
26. Professor Tom (1948)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Tom, complete with mortarboard, is teaching a kitten the basics: "cats chase mice." But Jerry keeps subverting this lesson at every opportunity, adding his own phrases, like "cats and mice ... See full summary »
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Diego Dames, William Hanna, Bob Laztny, Jack Sabel
Votes: 1,302
7/10
27. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
Directors: Charles Barton, Walter Lantz | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi
Votes: 19,576 | Gross: $4.80M
7/10
28. The Foghorn Leghorn (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Foghorn Leghorn tries indignantly to prove he is a chicken to Little Henry the Chicken Hawk who longs to prove himself.
Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,667
7/10
29. Hot Cross Bunny (1948)
7 min | Family, Animation, Comedy
At Eureka Experimental Hospital, a doctor plans to switch the characteristics of a chicken into the brain and a rabbit, into each other. Bugs Bunny was registered as the experimental rabbit, Number 46.
Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 655
7/10
30. Back Alley Oproar (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Sylvester sings opera and popular tunes while standing on a back alley fence; Elmer, who wants to sleep, tries to thwart him.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Gloria Curran, Tudor Williams
Votes: 997
7/10
31. Call Northside 777 (1948)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Film-Noir
Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker
Votes: 10,244
6/10
32. Inner Sanctum (1948)
Approved | 62 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery
A man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Charles Russell, Mary Beth Hughes, Billy House, Dale Belding
Votes: 1,165
6/10
33. Larceny (1948)
Approved | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
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.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea, Shelley Winters
Votes: 926
6/10
34. They Live by Night (1948)
Passed | 95 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Romance
An escaped convict injured during a robbery falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen
Votes: 9,359
6/10
35. Cry of the City (1948)
Passed | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Police Lieut. Candella, longtime friend of the Rome family, walks a tightrope in the case of cop-killer Martin Rome.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark, Shelley Winters
Votes: 3,735
6/10
36. He Walked by Night (1948)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann | Stars: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell
Votes: 6,713
6/10
37. Half-Pint Pygmy (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
George and Junior hunt for the world's smallest pygmy.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Roy Glenn, Pat McGeehan
Votes: 269
6/10
38. The Big Clock (1948)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Ray Milland, Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Laughton, George Macready
Votes: 9,540
6/10
39. The Time of Your Life (1948)
Approved | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
A wide variety of persons come into Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: James Cagney, William Bendix, Wayne Morris, Jeanne Cagney
Votes: 1,348
5/10
40. The Dark Past (1948)
Passed | 73 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
An escaped psychopathic killer who takes the family and neighbors of police psychologist hostage reveals a recurring nightmare to the doctor.
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: William Holden, Nina Foch, Lee J. Cobb, Adele Jergens
Votes: 2,146
5/10
41. I Love Trouble (1948)
Passed | 93 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
P.I. Stu is hired to investigate the past of a millionaire Johnson's wife who is missing. Stu finds that the wife had left her home town with an actor, went to college using a stolen identity and purloined $40,000 from a night club.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Franchot Tone, Janet Blair, Janis Carter, Adele Jergens
Votes: 1,044
5/10
42. A-Lad-in His Lamp (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Bugs Bunny finds and rubs Aladdin's lamp and decides to follow the genie to Baghdad, where they battle Mad Man Hassan.
Director: Robert McKimson | Stars: Mel Blanc, Jim Backus
Votes: 438
5/10
43. A Feather in His Hare (1948)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
A Native American goes hunting for Bugs
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Michael Maltese
Votes: 453
5/10
44. Blonde Ice (1948)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A society reporter keeps herself in the headlines by marrying a series of wealthy men, all of whom die under mysterious circumstances.
Director: Jack Bernhard | Stars: Robert Paige, Leslie Brooks, Russ Vincent, Michael Whalen
Votes: 1,348
4/10
45. Pitfall (1948)
Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Married insurance adjuster John Forbes falls for femme fatale Mona Stevens while her boyfriend is in jail and all suffer serious consequences as a result.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr
Votes: 4,544
4/10
46. What Price Fleadom (1948)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A dog lives in harmony with Homer the flea. But Homer spots a lady flea on a passing dog, and soon he's being attacked by that dog. And he just can't leave the lady flea alone. Meanwhile, ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, William Hanna
Votes: 382
4/10
47. Hare Splitter (1948)
Not Rated | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
When Bugs arrives for his date with Daisy Lou and finds her out shopping, he puts on her clothes to fool his rival Casbah.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Sara Berner
Votes: 396
3/10
48. Melody Time (1948)
Approved | 75 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
An anthology of animated vignettes set to contemporary music.
Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dennis Day, Laverne Andrews
Votes: 6,948
2/10*
49. Camptown Races (1948)
7 min | Animation, Short, Music
Directors: Seymour Kneitel, Al Eugster | Stars: Jackson Beck, Jack Mercer
Votes: 35
1/10
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