An atomic scientist who was one of the brains behind the A-bomb is now working in private life Read More »
Film-Noir
Ladies in Retirement (1941) Charles Vidor, Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes
In the late nineteenth century, Ellen Creed works as the live-in companion to Miss Leonora Fiske Read More »
The Amazing Mr. X (1948) Bernard Vorhaus, Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O’Donnell
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow Read More »
The House on 92nd Street (1945) Henry Hathaway, William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso
Preface: a stentorian narrator tells us that the USA was flooded with Nazi spies in 1939-41. Read More »
All My Sons (1948) Irving Reis, Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians
All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing. Read More »
The Miami Story (1954) Fred F. Sears, Barry Sullivan, Luther Adler, John Baer
When Miamia, Florida became national headquarters for a ten billion dollar crime syndicate ruled by crime-czar Tomy Brill (Luther Adler) Read More »
Spellbound (1945) Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
The head of the Green Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be replaced by Dr. Edwardes, a famous psychiatrist. Read More »
Follow Me Quietly (1949) Richard Fleischer, William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey
For six months, a strangler has terrorized the city. Calling himself The Judge, he’s a self-appointed destroyer of ‘evil’ who only strikes on rainy nights. Read More »
The Desperate Hours (1955) William Wyler, Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy
After escaping from prison, Glenn Griffin, his brother Hal and a third inmate Sam Kobish randomly select a house Read More »
The Fatal Witness (1945) Lesley Selander, Evelyn Ankers, Richard Fraser, George Leigh
The young John Bedford fights with his wealthy old aunt Lady Elizabeth Ferguson. Read More »
The Brothers Rico (1957) Phil Karlson, Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant
Eddie Rico has been the book-keeper of an important Mafia boss but now he is an honest merchant and lives with his family in Florida. Read More »
World for Ransom (1954) Robert Aldrich, Dan Duryea, Gene Lockhart, Patric Knowles
Made by the same production set-up on the same lot that was producing the 1953-54 “China Smith/Captain China” TV series Read More »
The 39 Steps (1935) Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of “Mr Memory”‘s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. Read More »
The Lost Moment (1947) Martin Gabel, Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet Read More »
Terror by Night (1946) Roy William Neill, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray
Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond owned by Carstairs’ mother, Lady Margaret. Read More »