Here’s to 1947, a year inbetween other years. 1947 also happened to be the last year of the so-called Hollywood “golden age”, by which movie historians mean the period when the major studios could do whatever the hell they pleased, because they owned the stars and the movie theaters, and had no real competitors. In 1948 the studios lost an anti-trust suit and had to sell off their theaters, and then television took off, which eventually gave us MacGyver, the culmination of all entertainment history, but that’s all in the future. Here are my favorite movies from 1947, by category:
Wtf was that?!
Fun and dancing
English (and Irish) gangsters
Noir
First-person shooters
The funny humor
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Domo arigato, mr Kurosawa
Other