The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
Angelic Intervention
A typical entry in the 1940s fad for light fantasy films in which Cary Grant plays an angel who comes down to Earth to assist poor overworked bishop David Niven
Films of 1947
The Black Widow (1947)
Serial/Deadly Female Spy
A rather dull fifteen-chapter serial about the efforts a detective who sets out to stop Sombra, an Asian spy intent on stealing US atomic rocket secrets
Dick Tracy’s Dilemma (1947)
Comic-Book Detective
The third of the films based on the famous comic-book detective Dick Tracy, this is far more successful at obtaining the larger-than-life feel of the comic-book than earlier entries
A Double Life (1947)
Mad Shakespearean Actor
George Cukor was one of the legendary Hollywood directors. Here he dives into film noir with Ronald Colman as a stage actor who psychopathically over-identifies with Shakespeare’s Othello
Down to Earth (1947)
Greek Muse Comes Down to Earth
This was a semi-sequel to Here Comes Mr Jordan featuring Rita Hayworth as the goddess Terpsichore descended to Earth to inspire a Broadway producer
Fun & Fancy Free (1947)
Disney Animation Anthology
One of the Disney animated portmanteaus of the 1940s featuring stories about a circus bear and a retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk starring Donald, Mickey and Goofy
The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947)
Ghost-Mortal Friendship
One of the most beautiful of all 1940s light fantasy films about the sweet and tender relationship between widow Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison as the ghost of the sea captain in the house she moves into
Heaven Only Knows (1947)
Angel Visits Out West
A 1940s light fantasy with Robert Cummings as an angel comes down in a Western town to help bad guy outlaw Brian Donlevy redeem his ways
House of Darkness (1947)
Haunting
A minor British ghost story about a composer who looks in and sees the lives of the inhabitants of a haunted house replayed. This comes with some modest effect
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Santa in Court
Classic Christmas film with Edmund Gwenn as a man who is placed on trial after he insists he is the real Santa Claus
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Fake Clairvoyant/Predestination
Classic film starring Tyrone Power as an ambitious carnival barker who has success with a mind-reader act. Filled with great film noir atmosphere and a doomed sense of fate at play
Personal Column (1947)
Psycho-Thriller
Psycho-thriller with an unknown Lucille Ball as a showgirl used by Scotland Yard as a lure to trap a maniac killer
Repeat Performance (1947)
Personal Past Revisited
Unusual fantasy film where a woman is allowed to replay the last year again and tries to prevent it ending in her shooting her husband
Scared to Death (1947)
Old Dark House/Sinister Hypnotist
Bela Lugosi poverty row cheapie where he plays a sinister hypnotist. The only film Lugosi made in colour
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Daydreamer's Fantasies
A light whimsical short story about a daydreamer is turned into a bloated and ponderous vehicle for the musical and comedy set-pieces of the perpetually wet-eared Danny Kaye
Sinbad the Sailor (1947)
Arabian Nights Adventure
The very first Sinbad film. Douglas Fairbanks Jr is cast to capitalise on the swashbuckling name of his father. It is odd seeing a Sinbad film that eliminates fantasy adventure in favour of talk, although it eventually mounts a likeably energetic show