Vittorio De Sica - Sciuscià aka Shoeshine (DVD) (1946)

Bert Cardullo, Masters of Cinema Essay, 2006 wrote:Bert Cardullo on ShoeshineShoeshine was conceived out of the experiences of vagrant orphans in povertystricken, postwar Rome, where they organised their enterprises (many of them illegal) in the wake of the Allied liberation. Often these youngsters were seen trailing after American soldiers calling out, “Sciuscià, Gio? – their phonetic equivalent

Lewis Milestone - The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

Amazon editorial review:Barbara Stanwyck mesmerizes as a woman with a past, bound by a crime to a husband she despises. Kirk Douglas quickens our collective pulses in his film debut as her disappointing, dipsomaniac spouse, while Van Heflin and Lizabeth Scott bring texture to supporting roles. Everything about this 1946 film noir is intriguing, from Lewis Milestone's direction to Edith Head's