Mild mannered Vern runs a pet store that seems to gather more pets than he sells. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All (1948) Reginald Le Borg, Joe Kirkwood Jr., Elyse Knox, William Frawley
The troubles begin for Joe Palooka, the heavyweight champion of the boxing-world, when his manager, Knobby Walsh Read More »
Camino del infierno (1946) Luis Saslavsky, Daniel Tinayre, Mecha Ortiz, Pedro López Lagar, Amelia Bence
Laura Sinrok, a rich and despotic woman domains her husband Alberto, pretending to commit suicide to retain him with her. Her ending will be tragic. Read More »
The Mantrap (1943) George Sherman, Henry Stephenson, Lloyd Corrigan, Joseph Allen
Henry Stephenson stars as a retired Scotland Yard detective. He is regarded as an icon because he has written volumes of books on the art of detection. Read More »
The Great Sacrifice (1944) Veit Harlan, Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff
Albrecht is a son in a family of wealthy intellectuals that has a seaside estate near Hamburg. Read More »
Im Still Alive (1940) Irving Reis, Kent Taylor, Linda Hayes, Howard Da Silva
Steve Bennett is a daring flier who crashes airplanes for the movies, and Laura Marley is an arrogant movie star who is transformed into a very likable woman when she marries Steve. Read More »
Lulu Belle (1948) Leslie Fenton, Dorothy Lamour, George Montgomery, Albert Dekker
Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900’s when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. Read More »
Duel in the Sun (1946) King Vidor, Otto Brower, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck
When her father is hanged for shooting his wife and her lover, half-breed Pearl Chavez goes to live with distant relatives in Texas. Read More »
Queen of the Amazons (1947) Edward Finney, Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison, J. Edward Bromberg
Jean Preston leads a party to India to investigate the disappearance of her fiance, Greg Jones, but someone manages to thwart their efforts through lies and murder. Read More »
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) Norman Z. McLeod, Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff
In New York the clumsy Walter Mitty is the publisher of pulp fiction at the Pierce Publishing house owned by Bruce Pierce. Read More »