A renowned and relentless Paris detective takes his first vacation in eleven years at a small inn in the French countryside. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Her Kind of Man (1946) Frederick De Cordova, Dane Clark, Janis Paige, Zachary Scott
A nightclub singer is caught between a big-time gangster and a tough Broadway columnist. Read More »
Penny and the Pownall Case (1948) Slim Hand, Ralph Michael, Peggy Evans, Christopher Lee
An artist’s model, with aspirations to be an amateur detective Read More »
Ride ‘Em Cowboy (1942) Arthur Lubin, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Foran
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. Read More »
Champion (1949) Mark Robson, Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell
Midge Kelly, hitchhiking west with lame brother Connie, is hustled unprepared into a pro boxing match. Read More »
Shadows Over Chinatown (1946) Terry O. Morse, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Victor Sen Yung
Chinese detective Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is on his way to San Francisco to take over a murder case when he meets a woman Read More »
Shanghai Chest (1948) William Beaudine, Roland Winters, Mantan Moreland, Tim Ryan
Vic Armstrong arrives at his Uncle Judge Armstrong’s home just in time to answer the telephone. Read More »
Cabin in the Sky (1943) Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley, Ethel Waters, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Lena Horne
Chronic gambler and carouser “Little” Joe Jackson is shot by Domino Johnson at Jim Henry’s gambling club over an outstanding gambling debt. Read More »
Tough Assignment (1949) William Beaudine, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Marjorie Steele, Steve Brodie
Don Reilly, a Los Angeles newspaper reporter in 1949, recently married to Margie Read More »
Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949) John M. Stahl, Mark Stevens, June Haver, S.Z. Sakall
In the early 1900s, song plugger Larry Kelly chances to meet Alfred Breitenbach Read More »
Jassy (1947) Bernard Knowles, Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc, Dennis Price
In 17th. century England, Jassy is believed a witch because she has sometimes visions of approaching disasters. Read More »
Bombay Clipper (1942) John Rawlins, William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Charles Lang
An American Foreign Correspodent, Jim Wilson, and his wife Frankie Read More »
Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942) Ray Enright, Constance Bennett, Bruce Cabot, Warren William
The bullets fly fast and thick in this rip-roaring shoot-’em-up starring Constance Bennett, Bruce Cabot and Warren William. Read More »
Esther Waters (1948) Ian Dalrymple, Peter Proud, Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde, Cyril Cusack
Esther (Kathleen Ryan) goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William (Sir Dirk Bogarde) Read More »
Three’s a Crowd (1945) Lesley Selander, Pamela Blake, Charles Gordon, Gertrude Michael
A woman suspected of murdering her fiancée becomes married to a man who is, ironically, the other suspect in the same murder. Read More »