Movie Theatrical Release Schedule for 1948

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January 1948
January 8 The Paradine Case (Limited)  
 
January 17 The Prince of Thieves (Limited)  
 
January 24 Check Your Guns (Limited)  
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Limited)  
February 1948
February 15 Stage To Mesa City (Limited) Producers Releasing Corporation  
 
February 16 The Bishop's Wife (Limited)  
 
February 21 Tornado Range (Limited)  
 
February 23 Le Corbeau (Limited) Westport International $36,089
March 1948
March 3 The Bride Goes Wild (Limited)  
 
March 4 The Naked City (Limited) Universal  
 
March 6 They Made Me a Fugitive (Limited)  
 
March 13 The Westward Trail (Limited) Producers Releasing Corporation  
 
March 17 I Remember Mama (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
March 23 The Search (Limited) MGM  
April 1948
April 2 B.F.'s Daughter (Limited)  
 
April 7 Winter Meeting (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
April 9 The Big Clock (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
April 10 The Hawk of Powder River (Limited)  
 
April 19 A.J. Cronin’s Hatter’s Castle (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
April 20 Arch of Triumph (Wide) United Artists $1,400,000
 
April 23 Dreams That Money Can Buy (Limited)  
 
April 24 Day of Wrath (Limited) Janus Films $7,642
 
April 28 Letter From an Unknown Woman (Limited)  
 
April 30 State of the Union (Limited)  
May 1948
May 3 On an Island with You (Wide) $3,200,000
 
May 15 The Woman in White (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
May 18 Silver River (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
May 20 The Pirate (Limited) $2,956,000
 
May 23 I Wouldn’t Be In Your Shoes (Limited) Monogram Pictures  
 
May 27 Melody Time (Wide)  
June 1948
June 4 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
June 15 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Limited) Universal  
 
June 17 The Tioga Kid (Limited) Eagle-Lion Classics  
 
June 24 Fort Apache (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
June 25 Romance on the High Seas (Limited) Warner Bros.  
July 1948
July 1 Man-Eater of Kumaon (Limited)  
 
July 2 The Emperor Waltz (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
July 8 Easter Parade (Wide) $6,800,000
 
July 15 Key Largo (Limited) $8,125,000
 
July 21 So Evil My Love (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
July 24 Blonde Ice (Limited)  
 
July 26 The Babe Ruth Story (Limited) Allied Artists  
 
July 29 A Date with Judy (Wide) $3,700,000
August 1948
August 8 Julia Misbehaves (Limited)  
 
August 20 A Foreign Affair (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
August 24 Pitfall (Limited)  
 
August 26 Red River (Limited) $9,012,000
September 1948
September 1 For the Love of Mary (Limited) Universal  
Sorry, Wrong Number (Limited) $5,700,000
 
September 3 Larceny (Limited) Universal  
 
September 12 Rope (Limited)  
 
September 18 Rachel and the Stranger (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
October 1948
October 1 Moonrise (Limited) Republic Pictures  
 
October 19 Station West (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
October 20 The Three Musketeers (Wide) MGM $8,000,000
 
October 22 The Red Shoes (Wide) Distributor Unknown  
 
October 29 June Bride (Limited)  
 
October 30 Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (Limited) Universal  
November 1948
November 4 Road House (Limited)  
The Snake Pit (Limited) $10,000,000
 
November 18 The Kissing Bandit (Limited) MGM  
 
November 21 Blood on the Moon (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
November 26 The Boy with Green Hair (Limited)  
December 1948
December 1 Adventures of Don Juan (Wide) Warner Bros.  
3 Godfathers (Limited)  
 
December 9 Whispering Smith (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
Words and Music (Limited) $3,500,000
 
December 21 Act of Violence (Wide)  
 
December 22 Joan of Arc (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
December 23 Blondies Secret (Limited) Columbia  
 
December 24 The Paleface (Limited)  
 
December 25 Every Girl Should Be Married (Limited)  
Force of Evil (Limited) MGM  
Yellow Sky (Limited) $5,600,000