Movie Theatrical Release Schedule for 1949

Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
to Date
January 1949
January 1 I Was a Male War Bride (Wide) $7,750,000
Neptune's Daughter (Wide) $3,450,000
On the Town (Wide) $2,900,000
February 1949
February 4 Criss Cross (Limited) Universal  
 
February 11 Riders of the Range (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
February 13 It Always Rains on Sunday (Wide) Rialto Pictures $7,176
March 1949
March 1 Wake of the Red Witch (Limited) Republic Pictures  
 
March 4 Alias Nick Beal (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
March 10 Blondies Big Deal (Limited) Columbia  
Little Women (Limited)  
 
March 18 The Queen of Spades (Wide) Monogram Pictures  
 
March 23 El Paso (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
April 1949
April 1 Impact (Limited)  
 
April 16 My Dream is Yours (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
April 22 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court (Limited)  
Portrait of Jennie (Limited) Selznick Releasing Organization  
 
April 29 The Set Up (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
April 30 The Secret Garden (Limited)  
 
April TBD Take Me Out To The Ball Game (Limited) MGM  
May 1949
May 1 Stampede (Limited) Allied Artists  
 
May 5 Red Canyon (Limited) Universal  
 
May 19 Canadian Pacific (Limited)  
 
May 27 Africa Screams (Limited) United Artists  
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (Limited)  
The Doolins of Oklahoma (Limited)  
 
 
May TBD The Window (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
June 1949
June 8 Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (Limited) Universal  
 
June 16 Roughshod (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
June 26 Massacre River (Limited) Allied Artists  
 
June 27 Stagecoach Kid (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
July 1949
July 13 The Great Gatsby (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
July 26 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Limited) $5,400,000
 
July 27 Come to the Stable (Limited) $8,000,000
 
July 28 Scene of the Crime (Limited)  
 
July 29 In the Good Old Summertime (Wide) $3,400,000
August 1949
August 25 Madame Bovary (Limited)  
 
August 30 Task Force (Limited) Warner Bros.  
September 1949
September 8 Blondie Hits the Jackpot (Limited) Columbia  
Under Capricorn (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
September 22 That Midnight Kiss (Limited) MGM  
 
September 23 Goofy Gymnastics (Limited)  
 
September 29 Pinky (Wide) $8,400,000
 
September 30 Red Light (Limited) United Artists  
October 1949
October 1 Trapped (Limited)  
 
October 5 The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Wide) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
October 6 The Heiress (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
October 10 Intruder in the Dust (Limited) MGM  
Thieves’ Highway (Limited) 20th Century Fox  
 
October 31 Samson and Delilah (Wide) $28,800,000
November 1949
November 3 That Forsyth Woman (Limited)  
 
November 5 They Live by Night (Limited)  
 
November 15 The Fallen Idol (Wide) Rialto Pictures $198,324
 
November 25 Tension (Limited) MGM  
 
 
November TBD Tokyo Joe (Limited)  
December 1949
December 1 The Threat (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
December 12 The Bicycle Thief (Wide) $361,712
 
December 14 Sands of Iwo Jima (Limited) $7,800,000
 
December 21 Twelve O'Clock High (Limited) $6,450,000
 
December 24 Holiday Affair (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures