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Tag Archives: 1940s
Powder Town (1942) Rowland V. Lee, Victor McLaglen, Edmond O’Brien, June Havoc
Absent-minded professor Quincey Pennant creates a formula to transmit the impact of explosives over greater distances. 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 Pride of the Yankees (1942) Sam Wood, Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth
Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games Read More »
Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949) Godfrey Grayson, Don Stannard, Bruce Walker, Sebastian Cabot
Special Agent Dick Barton uncovers a ring of international psychopathic criminals Read More »
Devil Bat’s Daughter (1946) Frank Wisbar, Rosemary La Planche, John James, Michael Hale
Wishing to dispose of his wife, psychiatrist Doctor Elliott makes his patient Nina think that she suffers from a compulsion to kill. Read More »
Out of the Fog (1941) Anatole Litvak, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Thomas Mitchell
In Brooklyn, fishing is the hobby of the workers Jonah Goodwin and Olaf Johnson and they use to fish every night in their old boat. 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 Rake’s Progress (1945) Sidney Gilliat, Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Godfrey Tearle
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford 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 »
Dressed to Kill (1946) Roy William Neill, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison
Sherlock Holmes is intrigued when Dr. Watson’s friend, Julian ‘Stinky’ Emery 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 »
The Woman in Green (1945) Roy William Neill, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke
Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. Read More »
The Pearl of Death (1944) Roy William Neill, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey
When a pearl with a sinister reputation for causing misfortune to its owners is stolen from a museum Read More »
The Scarlet Claw (1944) Roy William Neill, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer
While attending a conference in Quebec City, Sherlock Holmes and his good friend Read More »