5 Off My Head - Siri Says 1949

Every week (or every week I get to it) on a Tuesday (or some other day if I feel like it) I take to my cellular telephone and I ask it to choose a number between one and one hundred, and then I list my five (or thereabouts) favorite movies from the year that corresponds with the number I have been given. It's true! I have done this several times now and you can scroll down and through them right here at this link here. And well, since it's Tuesday and all, I have done it again. Today my phone (or "cellular telephone" if that makes you more comfortable) has given me the number 49, and so here I give you in return...

(dir. Yasujirô Ozu)

-- released on September 13th 1949 --

(dir. William Wyler)

-- released on October 6th 1949 --

(dir. George Cukor)

-- released on November 18th 1949 --

(dir. Max Ophüls)

-- released on December 29th 1949 --

-----------------------

I don't really have any runners-up because 1949 

was not the greatest year for the movies,
but hey it did give us this gif...

... of Shelley Winters being hit by a car 
in The Great Gatsby, and that's not nothing.