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Title Director Cast Genre Notes Calamity Jane and Sam Bass: George Sherman: Yvonne De Carlo, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart: Western: Universal: Canadian Pacific: Edwin L. Marin: Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, J. Carrol Naish
Packard's new Ultramatic model introduced in the middle of the 1954 model year was officially called Gear-Start Ultramatic Drive, offering a new selector sequence on the column shift: 'D', for Drive, placed in between High and Low, with High now represented by a simple dot (PN•DLR). In this new DRIVE range, it would use the low ratio and ...
April 26 – June 21 – Ealing comedies Passport to Pimlico, Whisky Galore! and Kind Hearts and Coronets are released in the UK, leading to 1949 being remembered as one of the peak years of the Ealing comedies. November 15 – Following the prior year's Supreme Court decision in United States v.
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1949 per Variety's weekly National Boxoffice Survey. The results are based on a sample of 20-25 key cities and therefore, any box office amounts quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
Packard caught up with the Ultramatic, [47] offered on top models in 1949 and all models from 1950 onward, but its perceived market reputation now had it as a competitor to Buick. [46] Designed and built by Packard, the Ultramatic featured a lockup torque converter with two speeds. Early Ultramatics normally operated only in "high", with "low ...
The engine was supplied by Packard as part of George W. Mason's vision to have Packard join AMC to help achieve the economies of scale of the domestic Big Three automakers. The 320 cu in (5.2 L) V8 produced 120 hp (89 kW; 122 PS) and mated to Packard's Ultramatic automatic transmission.
A Dangerous Profession is a 1949 American film noir directed by Ted Tetzlaff, written by Warren Duff and Martin Rackin, and starring George Raft, Ella Raines and Pat O'Brien. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The film was one of a series of thrillers in which Raft appeared in the late 1940s, with decreasing commercial results.
September 30, 1949: Red Light [N 4] distribution only; produced by Roy Del Ruth Productions October 5, 1949: Under the Sun of Rome: October 7, 1949: Satan's Cradle: October 26, 1949: Without Honor: Just a Big Simple Life: November 4, 1949: The Big Wheel: November 8, 1949: The Great Dan Patch: November 25, 1949: A Kiss for Corliss: December 23 ...