Watch Your Meters (1947)

Read Any Good Meters Lately?

1947 | UK | Richard Massingham | ★★★

Directed by John Waterhouse, doctor turned actor and film-maker Richard Massingham's Watch Your Meters is an undistinguished but nevertheless mildly amusing public information film, produced for the Ministry of Fuel.

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"Richard Massingham stars in an educational short about ways of conserving household energy." TMDb

Hue and Cry (1947)

1947 | UK | Charles Crichton | ★★★

The first of the Ealing Comedies, Charles Crichton's Hue and Cry is a gently amusing Boy's Own-style adventure with added post-war realism, featuring a criminally underused Alastair Sim and a juvenile cast headed by Harry Fowler.

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"First of the Ealing comedies. A bunch of crooks use a comic paper, featuring stories penned by Felix H. Wilkinson (Alastair Sim), to pass on coded messages for robberies. When the comic's readership, a bunch of East End boys, discover what's going on they go to the police. The local constabulary, however, are no help, and so the plucky lads set out to foil the robbers themselves." Studiocanal

Build My Gallows High (1947)

Out of the Past

1947 | USA | Jacques Tourneur | ★★★★★

Based on Daniel Mainwaring's 1946 novel, Jacques Tourneur's thoroughly gripping Build My Gallows High is an incredibly dark thriller about one man's inability to escape his troubled past, featuring a decidedly excellent central performance from Robert Mitchum.

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"Private detective Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) is hired by gambler Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas) to find Sterling's girlfriend after she shoots him and takes off with $40,000 of his money. Bailey tracks the woman, Kathie Moffett (Jane Greer) to Mexico, only to fall for her charms. When Kathie convinces Bailey that she is innocent, he tells Sterling that he has been unable to find her - unaware that he is becoming trapped in a tangled web of deceit, murder and blackmail." Universal

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Stotty's 1940s Favourites