Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Key Largo (1948) John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
Frank McCloud travels to a run-down hotel on Key Largo to honor the memory of a friend who died bravely in his unit during WW II. Read More »
Escape Me Never (1947) Peter Godfrey, Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker
It is Venice, 1900, and Fenella is engaged to composer Caryl Dubrok until she hears that an unmarried woman Read More »
Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood (1942) Michael Gordon, Chester Morris, William Wright, Constance Worth
Boston Blackie and his pal, The Runt, are ready to board a train for Florida when Blackie gets a telegram Read More »
Bandit Ranger (1942) Lesley Selander, Tim Holt, Cliff Edwards, Joan Barclay
Rancher Clay Travers finds and brings in the body of ranger Frank Mattison, murdered on the road to Trail City Read More »
The Man from Dakota (1940) Leslie Fenton, Wallace Beery, John Howard, Dolores del Rio
During the Civil War a beautiful woman helps two Union spies cross into the Confederacy and gather information. Read More »
Woman of the Year (1942) George Stevens, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter
Tess and Sam work on the same newspaper and don’t like each other very much. Read More »
Initiation of the Two-Sword Style (1943) Daisuke Itô, Jun Fujikawa, Sannosuke Fujikawa, Kensaku Hara
From the deepest archives of Japanese film history comes this superbly restored edition of one of the epic adventures Read More »
Crime Doctor (1943) Michael Gordon, Warner Baxter, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel
Amnesia victim, Robert Ordway, becomes the country’s leading criminal psychologist. Read More »
The Crime Doctor’s Diary (1949) Seymour Friedman, Warner Baxter, Stephen Dunne, Lois Maxwell
Dr. Ordway tries to prove that his patient was framed for arson. Read More »
Hullabaloo (1940) Edwin L. Marin, Frank Morgan, Virginia Grey, Dan Dailey
A movie musical centered on merrily befogged Merriweather’s attempt to restore his career Read More »
Opened by Mistake (1940) George Archainbaud, Charles Ruggles, Janice Logan, Robert Paige
This zany comedy-mystery gets under way when wiseguy reporter Jimmie Daniels (Robert Paige) Read More »
North to the Klondike (1942) Erle C. Kenton, Broderick Crawford, Evelyn Ankers, Andy Devine
Nate Carson (Lon Chaney, Jr.) plans to run off the group of homesteaders out of the valley Read More »
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Frank Capra, Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
Mortimer Brewster is a newspaperman and author known for his diatribes against marriage. Read More »
The Judge Steps Out (1948) Boris Ingster, Alexander Knox, Ann Sothern, George Tobias
A Boston judge bored with his life leaves his family and heads off for adventure. Read More »