Top 10 Films of 1947

1. "Monsieur Verdoux" (Charles Chaplin, USA)

2. "Song Of The South" (Walt Disney, USA)

3. "Out Of The Past" (Maurice Tourneur, USA)

4. "Record Of A Tenement Gentleman" (Yasujirô Ozu, Japan)

5. "Boomerang!" (Elia Kazan, USA)

6. "Kiss Of Death" (Henry Hathaway, USA)

7. "Pursued" (Raoul Walsh, USA)

8. "Dark Passage" (Delmer Daves, USA)

9. "Crossfire" (Edward Dmytryk, RKO)

10. "Black Narcissus" (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, UK)

Other great films:

Angelina (Italy)
Antoine et Antoinette (France)
The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer
Body And Soul
Brute Force
Call Northside 777

Dead Reckoning

Driftwood

Fun And Fancy Free
Gentlemen's Agreement
Good News

Gran Casino (Mexico)
It Happened In Brooklyn

Les Jeux sont faits (France)

Lady In The Lake
Life With Father
Miracle On 34th Street
Nicholas Nickleby (UK)
Nightmare Alley
Odd Man Out (UK)
One Wonderful Sunday (Japan)
The Paradine Case

Road To Rio
Secret Agent (Soviet Union)
Seven Journeys (Germany)

Ship To India (Sweden)
Le Silence est d'or (France)
The Sin Of Harold Diddlebock
Song Of The Thin Man
This Time For Keeps
T-Men
Unconquered
The Unsuspected

Woman On The Beach
Zakazane piosenki (Poland)

Short Top 3:

1. "Sauna" (Holger Harrivirta, Finland)

2. "Varala naisten paratiisi" (Aimo Jäderholm, Finland)

3. "The Cage" (Sidney Peterson, USA)

Other great shorts:

Brooklyn USA

Denmark Grows Up (Denmark)

Filmavisen 30 januar 1947 (Norway)

Fireworks

Goodbye Miss Turlock

Village Church (Denmark)

Top Commercial:

"Chiquita Banana" (Walt Disney, United Fruit Company)

Cartoon Top 10

1. "King-Size Canary" (Tex Avery, MGM)

2. "Clown Of The Jungle" (Jack Hannah, Disney)

3. "Tweetie Pie" (Friz Freleng, Warner)

4. "Pluto's Blue Note" (Charles Nichols, Disney)

5. "Chip 'n' Dale" (Jack Hannah, Disney)

6. "Foul Hunting" (Jack Hannah, Disney)

7. "Smoked Hams" (Dick Lundy, Universal)

8. "Rhapsody In Wood" (George Pal, Paramount)

9. Motion Painting #1 (Oskar Fischinger, USA)

10. "It's A Grand Old Nag" (Robert Clampett, Republic)

Other great cartoons:

Along Came Daffy
Birth Of A Notion
Catch As Cats Can
Crowing Pains
Doggone Cats
Donald's Dilemma
Enchanted Square 

Fiddle-De-Dee (Canada)  
The Gay Anties
Hobo Bobo
Hound Hunters
Little Orphan Airdale
Mexican Joyride
Musicalulu
One Meat Brawl
Part Time Pal
The Pest In The House
Rabbit Transit
Red Hot Rangers
Scent-imental Over You
Slick Hare
Stupidstitious Cat
Temptation Of Mr Prokouk (Czechoslovakia)
Uncle Tom's Cabana
The Up-Standing Sitter
Well Oiled

Weak films of 1947:

Along The Sungari River (China)
Angel And The Badman
Angel On My Shoulder
The Bishop's Wife
Cynthia
A Double Life
The Egg And I
The Farmer's Daughter
Forever Amber
The Ghost And Mrs Muir
Golden Earrings
Mother Wore Tights
Mourning Becomes Electra
Possessed
Scared To Death
Smash Up: The Story Of A Woman

Weak shorts:

Champagne For Two
So You Want To Be In Pictures 

Struggle Against Cancer (Denmark)  
Le Tempestaire (France)

Weak cartoons:

The Bandmaster
Bootle Beetle
A Bout With A Trout
Cad And Caddy
Cat Fishin'
Crazy With The Heat
Date With Duke
Dr Jekyll And Mr Mouse
Easter Yeggs
Figaro And Frankie
The Foxy Duckling
Goofy Gophers
A Hare Grows In Manhattan
Inki At The Circus
The Invisible Mouse
Mail Dog
Mickey's Delayed Date
A Mouse In The House
Naughty But Mice
Pluto's Housewarming
Rescue Dog
Salt Water Tabby
Slap-Happy Lion
Sleepy Time Donald
Solid Ivory
Straight Shooters
Tubby The Tuba
The Wee Men
Wide Open Spaces
Woody The Giant Killer

Top 3 Musicals of 1947

1. "Good News" (Charles Walters, MGM)

2. "This Time For Keeps" (Richard Thorpe, MGM)

3. "It Happened In Brooklyn" (Richard Whorf, MGM)

Song Of The South (1947) ****

Because of excessive political-correctness, this wonderful Disney classic is unavailable on DVD. Songs: 

"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" ****

Record Of A Tenement Gentleman (1947) ****

Neorealist "hahamono" film by Yasujiro Ozu, deeply touching.

Woman On The Beach (1947) ***

Unconquered (1947) ***

Epic western set in western Pennsylvania during the Indian Wars in the 18th century.

Ship To India (1947) ***

Probably the best among Ingmar Bergman's early melodramas (those made before 1949). A story of a very toxic relationship between a father and his son.

Seven Journeys (1947) ***

T-Men (1947) ***

Tense police drama about undercover Treasury agents exposing an international counterfeiting ring.

The Sin Of Harold Diddlebock (1947) ***

Also known as "Mad Wednesday". Preston Sturges' weakest film ever, and one of Harold Lloyd's least impressive efforts as well. Uneven, with the second half much better than the first. And a possible inspiration for "The Hangover" (2009).

Zakazane piosenki (1947) ***

Film about Polish songs forbidden during the Nazi occupation. A musical story of resistance.

Gran Casino (1947) ***

One Wonderful Sunday (1947) ***

Uneven, but interesting film by Akira Kurosawa.

This Time For Keeps (1947) ***

A typical Esther Williams picture. Musical numbers include:

"Agnus Dei"  *
"A Little Bit This And A Little Bit That"  *
"Easy To Love"  **
"I Love To Dance"  **
"Why Don't They Let Me Sing A Love Song?"  **
"M'Appari"  **
"Ten Per Cent Off"  **
"Inka Dinka Doo"  *
"I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time"  *
"No Wonder They Fall In Love"  **
"Ora è per sempre addio"  *
"The Man Who Found The Lost Chord"  *
"When It's Lilac Time On Mackinac Island"  *
"Un poquito de Amor"  **
"Chiquita Banana"  *
"Easy To Love"  (reprise)  *
"La Donna è mobile"  **
"Easy To Love" (reprise)  *

Secret Agent (1947) ***

Soviet spy drama.

Angelina (1947) ***

It Happened In Brooklyn (1947) ***

The story is weak, but there are some very good songs in this Frank Sinatra musical. Songs include:

"I Believe"  **
"Time After Time" **
"The Song's Gotta Come From The Heart" **

Driftwood (1947) ***

Les Jeux sont faits (1947) ***

Gentlemen's Agreement (1947) ***

Oscar-winning film about antisemitism.

Cynthia (1947) **

Elizabeth Taylor has some problems finding a date for her prom.

Forever Amber (1947) **

Over-the-top melodrama about an ambitious woman in 17th-century England.

The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947) **

Romantic drama about a widow and a ghost of a sea captain.

The Egg And I (1947) **

Claudette Colbert plays a chicken farmer in this moderately entertaining comedy.

Angel And The Badman (1947) **

Preachy western starring John Wayne as a gunfighter who abandons violence and becomes a Quaker.

Possessed (1947) **

Pretty ridiculous, but fascinating melodrama starring Joan Crawford as a rich man's mistress.

A Double Life (1947) **

A very weak beginning, but a strong second-half almost saves this psychological thriller about an actor playing Othello on stage who ends up killing in real life.

The Bishop's Wife (1947) *

Saccharine tale of an angel (Cary Grant) visiting a bishop and his wife. Hopelessly dated.

Golden Earrings (1947) *

Fairly unconvincing melodrama about a British spy in Germany who falls in love with a gypsy woman (Marlene Dietrich).

Scared To Death (1947) *

From a slab in the morgue, a dead young woman tells the bizarre tale of how she got there. Good premise, bad movie.

Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) *

Ridiculously over-the-top melodrama inspired by a Greek tragedy.

Varala naisten paratiisi (1947) ****

Wonderful documentary from Finland. It's available here.

The Cage (1947) ****

Fireworks (1947) ****

A nightmarish vision of a young man beaten by a gang of brutal sailors. An interesting use of off-screen space. Kenneth Anger's first film.

Sauna (1947) ****

Chiquita Banana (1947) ***

Made by Walt Disney for the United Fruit Company, a commercial for Chiquita Banana.

Goodbye Miss Turlock (1947) ***

Short film about a teacher.

Denmark Grows Up (1947) ***

The film is available here.

Village Church (1947) ***

Brooklyn USA (1947) ***

Filmavisen 30 januar 1947 (1947) ***

Monsieur Verdoux (1947) ****

Charles Chaplin's best sound movie. Based on an idea by Orson Welles.