On a lecture/vacation visit to Paris, Dr. Ordway drops in on his friend, the Prefecture of Police. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Assigned to Danger (1948) Budd Boetticher, Gene Raymond, Noreen Nash, Robert Bice
A gang of ex-convicts pull and holdup in an office building and the night-watchman is killed. Read More »
One Night in the Tropics (1940) A. Edward Sutherland, Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Robert Cummings
Jim “Lucky” Moore (Allan Jones), an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend Read More »
You Were Never Lovelier (1942) William A. Seiter, Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou
The Acunas, a rich Argentine family, have the tradition that the daughters have to get married in order, oldest first. Read More »
Meet John Doe (1941) Frank Capra, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed “John Doe,” Read More »
I Take This Woman (1940) W.S. Van Dyke, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, Verree Teasdale
Georgi has attempted suicide in reaction to an earlier love affair. Now that Dr. Decker has married her he sets out to get her to love him. Read More »
The Phantom Speaks (1945) John English, Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges, Lynne Roberts
The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician Read More »
The Desert Song (1943) Robert Florey, Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad. Read More »
Bahama Passage (1941) Edward H. Griffith, Madeleine Carroll, Sterling Hayden, Flora Robson
A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed “has been around,” Read More »
You’ll Find Out (1940) David Butler, Kay Kyser, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
Kay Kyser and his orchestra are hired to entertain at the birthday party of a young heiress at a creepy old mansion Read More »
Monsieur Beaucaire (1946) George Marshall, Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield, Patric Knowles
Beaucaire is a barber for the Royal French court who becomes a real “royal pain” for the king. Read More »
The Impatient Years (1944) Irving Cummings, Jean Arthur, Lee Bowman, Charles Coburn
Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him to dissolve their marriage. Read More »
Arabian Nights (1942) John Rawlins, Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu
Dancer Sherazade was told by the stars that she will become wife of the kalif in Bagdad. Read More »
Stagecoach Kid (1949) Lew Landers, Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Jeff Donnell
Crooked ranch foreman Thatcher sends his two henchmen, Parnell and Clint, out to murder his boss Read More »
The Naughty Nineties (1945) Jean Yarbrough, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis
In the gay ’90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Read More »