Milestone 1949
Another milestone
... a new member of staff
It was the year that Sylvia Symmons
Notable films released in 1949
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Adam's Rib, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
- The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
- Africa Screams, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Alexander Popov
- All the King's Men, starring Broderick Crawford
- The Barkleys of Broadway, the last of 10 films starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
- Battleground
- The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, starring Betty Grable
- Beyond the Forest, starring Bette Davis
- The Bicycle Thief (U.S. release)
- The Big Steal, starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Patric Knowles
- Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro), starring Vittorio Gassman and Silvana Mangano
- Border Incident
- The Bribe, starring Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price and John Hodiak
- Champion, starring Kirk Douglas and Marilyn Maxwell
- City Across the River
- Come to the Stable, starring Loretta Young
- Criss Cross, starring Burt Lancaster and Yvonne De Carlo
- Edward, My Son, starring Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr
- The Fallen Idol (U.S. release)
- Father was a Fullback
- Flamingo Road, starring Joan Crawford
- The Fountainhead, starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal
- Give Us This Day
- The Hasty Heart, starring Ronald Reagan and Patricia Neal
- The Heiress, directed by William Wyler, starring Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift and Miriam Hopkins
- Holiday Affair
- House of Strangers
- I Shot Jesse James
- I Was a Male War Bride
- Impact
- In the Good Old Summertime
- In the Name of the Law (In nome della legge)
- The Inspector General
- The Interrupted Journey
- Intruder in the Dust
- It Happens Every Spring
- Jolson Sings Again
- Jour de fête, directed by and starring Jacques Tati
- Kind Hearts and Coronets, directed by Robert Hamer, starring Alec Guinness, Dennis Price and Valerie Hobson
- King of the Rocket Men
- Late Spring (Banshun), directed by Yasujiro Ozu
- A Letter to Three Wives, starring Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell and Ann Sothern
- Little Women, starring Elizabeth Taylor
- Ma and Pa Kettle -(film only mentioned in article)
- Madame Bovary, starring Jennifer Jones
- Malaya
- Manon
- Mighty Joe Young
- Mother Is a Freshman
- My Friend Irma, film debut of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
- My Foolish Heart, starring Susan Hayward and Dana Andrews
- Neptune's Daughter
- Obsession, starring Robert Newton
- On the Town, starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra
- Passport to Pimlico
- Pinky, starring Jeanne Crain
- Poet's Pub
- Prince of Foxes
- The Queen of Spades
- The Quiet Duel (Shizukanaru Ketto), starring Toshiro Mifune
- The Reckless Moment, starring James Mason and Joan Bennett
- The Red Pony
- Rotation
- Samson and Delilah, starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature
- Sands of Iwo Jima
- Saraband for Dead Lovers (U.S. release)
- The Secret Garden
- The Set-Up, starring Robert Ryan
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
- "She Shoulda Said 'No'!"
- Le Silence de la mer, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
- Slattery's Hurricane, starring Richard Widmark, Veronica Lake and Linda Darnell
- The Small Back Room
- So Dear to My Heart
- The Stratton Story
- Stray Dog (Nora inu), directed by Akira Kurosawa
- They Live by Night, starring Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell
- Thieves' Highway, directed by Jules Dassin
- The Third Man, directed by Carol Reed, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli and Orson Welles
- Too Late for Tears
- Tulsa
- Twelve O'Clock High, starring Gregory Peck
- Waga koi wa moenu, directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
- The Walls of Malapaga (Au-delà des grilles)
- The Window
- Under Capricorn, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Ingrid Bergman
- Where The Sidewalk Ends, starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney
- Whirlpool, starring Gene Tierney
- Whisky Galore!, starring Basil Radford and Joan Greenwood
- White Heat, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring James Cagney and Virginia Mayo
