1949 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner
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A Letter to Three Wives
A letter is addressed to three wives from their “best friend” Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands…but she does not say which one.
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Bicycle Thieves
In post-war Italy, a working-class man’s bicycle is stolen. He and his son set out to find it.
![Devil in the Flesh](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/devil-in-the-flesh-claude-autant-lara-image.jpg)
Devil in the Flesh
During World War I, the star-crossed affair of an underage French student with a woman engaged to a soldier.
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Germany Year Zero
A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post WWII Berlin.
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Home of the Brave
During WW2, a reconnaissance platoon is sent to map out a Japanese-held island but racial tensions arise between the white soldiers and the only black member of the group.
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Intruder in the Dust
In 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.
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Quartet
Four of Somerset Maugham’s short stories are brought to the screen with each introduced by the author himself. In the first story, The Facts of Life, a young man with great potential on the…
![The Fallen Idol](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-fallen-idol-carol-reed-image.jpg)
The Fallen Idol
A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.
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The Heiress
A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.
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The Quiet One
A documentary account of the rehabilitation at the Wiltwyck School of an emotionally disturbed Black boy who is unwanted, misunderstood, and inwardly tortured.