Best Movies of 1949

These are the 8 best-rated movies released in 1949, led by Knights Must Fall, Blondie's Big Deal and Bye, Bye Bluebeard. Ranked by audience score, with cast, trailers and legal places to watch on every page.

1. Knights Must Fall (1949)

★ 7.2/10

Bugs must joust with Sir Pantsalot of Drop Seat Manor when he tosses a partially eaten carrot into a suit of armor.
2. Blondie's Big Deal (1949)

★ 7.0/10

Dagwood accidentally discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before he can give it to his boss Radcliffe. To show off his invention, Dagwood paints Radcliffe's house with it and is disgraced…
3. Bye, Bye Bluebeard (1949)

★ 6.9/10

Porky has a series of altercations with a mischievous mouse and a vicious serial killer.
4. The Bee-Deviled Bruin (1949)

★ 6.9/10

It's breakfast time, and Pa finds the honeypot empty. Literally risking life and limb, he has Junyer help him raid a nearby beehive. In the end, he finds he should have listened to Ma in the first place, rather than…
5. The Wind in the Willows (1949)

★ 6.7/10

This animated fairy tale for kids tells the classic story of a dapper, automobile loving fellow named Mr. Toad, whose passion becomes a problem when he's framed for stealing cars by a band of rogue weasels.
6. The Inspector General (1949)

★ 6.6/10

An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in…
7. White Paws (1949)

★ 5.1/10

An eccentric man endangers himself when he makes advances toward the girlfriend of a saloon keeper.
8. Riders of the Whistling Pines (1949)

★ 5.0/10

While trailing Forest Ranger Charles Carter, who is suspected of permitting lumber man Henry Mitchell to cut restricted timber, Gene fires at a dangerous mountain lion and apparently kills Carter. Actually, Bill…