The Paradine Case (1947)

Director Hitchcock and Producer Selznick's third collaboration, the rather conventional courtroom thriller The Paradine Case, based on a Robert H Hitchens book, may not soar to the heights that Rebecca and Spellbound did (their previous works together) but it is a grand and engrossing melodrama, so well-acted, directed, and staged that you can revel in it despite the ludicrousness of the central court case and despite the fact climactic scenes of Gregory Peck's lawyer's reckoning don't quite hit the nail on the head.

★★★★☆

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Hue and Cry (1947)

In this first Ealing comedy, a mystery adventure set in post-war London and full of derringdo, a young ragamuffin is surprised one day to stumble into a panel come-to-life from his favourite newspaper detective comic strip, but this is not Walter Mitty fantasy: the would-be sleuth and his extensive network of 'Blood and Thunder Boys' make it their duty to investigate and foil what turns out to be a criminal mastermind's nefarious plot.  

★★★★☆

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The Unsuspected (1947)

The slightly mindbending title, a negated past participle typically used as an adjective but used with the definite article as a noun, hints at the greater convolutions to come in this noirish 1947 suspense thriller that involves - wait for it - not just a love-triangle but a love-pentagon, a shipwreck, a murder made to look like suicide, the return to life of someone presumed dead, a fake husband gaslighting a fake wife suffering amnesia, a hired hitman, blackmail, and a diabolical plot to commit a string of murders that might be the perfect crime except for the fact it almost leaves everyone but the culprit dead.

★★★☆☆

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