All Films

A Ham in a Role

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

A dog decides to quit the slapstick comedy of cartoons and go to his country home to concentrate on Shakespeare, but two troublesome yet polite gophers foil his grand plans.

Pioneer Marshal

1949 • 60 min

Monte Hale is cast as Ted Post, a Texas marshal who's on the trail of embezzler Larry Forester (Myron Healey). His search takes him to a remote frontier town that serves as an outlaw hideaway. All previous lawmen have been disposed of by town boss Bruce Burnett (Damian O'Flynn), who demands a hefty price for his services.

Cinderella Horse

1949 • 10 min • United States of America

A 1948 English language short film written and directed by De Leon Anthony, Harry O. Hoyt, and Edwin E. Olsen, starring Art Gilmore. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, One-Reel.

Doggone Tired

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

A rabbit tries all he can to keep a hunting dog awake before tomorrow's big hunt.

Law of the West

1949 • 54 min • United States of America

With the railroad coming, Nixon is after the ranchers land. Using a stooge land agent, his method is to claim the person they bought their ranches from never had title to the land and their deeds are worthless. Fereral Agent Johnny Mack arrives posing as a gunman. He is quickly onto the henchman and Land Agent and eventually suspects Nixon is the big boss. But he needs the help of ventriloquist Alibi to bring them in.

Powder River Rustlers

1949 • 60 min • United States of America

Powder River Rustlers is a western film directed by Philip Ford in 1949. The railroad is coming and to get the townspeople's money. Shears Williams brings in a fake Agent who tells them they must raise $50,000 as their share of a railroad bridge. Railroad Agent Rocky Lane arrives and immediately spots the fake. A phony telegram assures Rocky his friend is still alive and he sets out to find him and his abductor.

Cowboy and the Prizefighter

1949 • 59 min • United States of America

Red Ryder KO's a fight racket with sidekick Little Beaver (Little Brown Jug) and a new friend.

Bad Luck Blackie

1949 • 8 min • United States of America

A kitten who is being tormented by a bulldog finds a savior in a black cat (from the "Black Cat Bad Luck Company") who merely has to cross the dog's path for something very unlucky to happen to the bully.

Horsemen of the Sierras

1949 • 56 min • United States of America

When Robin Grant inherits a valuable range, certain evil interests try their best to kill off Robin and claim the land for themselves. US Marshall Steve Saunders comes to the boy's rescue.

West of El Dorado

1949 • 58 min • United States of America

Johnny and Alibi try to straighten out a hostile young boy whose older brother was a notorious stagecoach bandit. When a gang of thieves try to strong-arm the kid into revealing the whereabouts of the stolen loot, Johnny and Alibi come to the rescue. There's a cursory romantic subplot involving heroine Mary and Barstow.

Satan's Cradle

1949 • 60 min • United States of America

Satan's Cradle was the fourth of producer Phil Krasne's "Cisco Kid" programmers for United Artists. This time, Cisco takes on a frontier megalomaniac, shyster lawyer Steve Gentry, who has taken over a mining town. Gentry's confederate is dancehall girl Lil who is as deadly as she is beautiful. When itinerant preacher Henry Lane is beaten to a pulp by Gentry's goons, Cisco and Pancho move in for the kill.

Pluto's Surprise Package

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

Pluto tries to bring in the mail, which gets more difficult when a package sprouts legs and tries to go swimming. Between the wandering turtle and the wind blowing the other mail around, Pluto's got quite a task ahead. And it's not made easier when both the letters and the turtle go off a large cliff.

Flame of Youth

1949 • 60 min • United States of America

Outside the Wolf Club, wayward high school student Geraldine “Jerry” Briggs waits in the parking lot, while her partner in crime, Al, steals hubcaps from parked cars. When a patron named Steve Miller notices his hubcaps missing, he phones the police, and Jerry is apprehended.

Inspiration

1949 • 12 min • Czechoslovakia

A glass blower imagines that his creations come to life. A story of love contained within a single drop of rain. A voyage into ethereal beauty.

Oil's Well That Ends Well

1949 • 20 min • United States of America

Leon Errol needs to keep his guests apart at dinner.

Marriage Wows

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

There's a wedding in the forest and all the animals are getting ready.

The Pecos Pistol

1949 • 26 min • United States of America

A partial remake of and using footage from 1941's "Rawhide Rangers" this Western short is about a ranger who pretends to turn outlaw in order to track down the gang who killed his brother, also a ranger.

Lysis

1949 • 30 min • United States of America

Markopoulos called Lysis “a study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost, wandering, homosexual soul” and felt that the film foreshadowed The Illiac Passion.

Radio Riot

1949 • 18 min • United States of America

Harry tries to entertain a family of rich hillbillies.

Bear Feat

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

The three bears try to train to become vaudeville stars, but things do not go well for Pa Bear.

A Mutt in a Rut

1949 • 8 min • United States of America

A new kitten is brought home and the family dog "Dogface" isn't happy.

Snow Carnival

1949 • 20 min • United States of America

Snow Carnival is a 1949 short documentary film narrated by Gary Cooper, and supervised by Gordon Hollingshead. It is about the snowy attractions of mid-twentieth century Aspen, Colorado. The film was nominated for an Oscar nominated for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel.

Charmides

1949 • 15 min • United States of America

Based on Plato's dialogue Charmides.

All in a Nutshell

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

Donald steals Chip and Dale's nuts for his nut-butter shop, which is shaped like a giant walnut, Chip and Dale, roll and "shoot" Donald into a nearby lake.