Marcel De Lange is a struggling sculptor whose work and sanity are derided by the New York art critics. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
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 »
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 »
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 »
South of Pago Pago (1940) Alfred E. Green, Victor McLaglen, Jon Hall, Frances Farmer
In the 1890s, white-skinned Ruby Taylor (Frances Farmer) makes a strange journey from Singapore Read More »
The Paleface (1948) Norman Z. McLeod, Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong
Someone is selling guns to the Indians and in order to find the culprit Calamity Jane Read More »
Spitfire (1942) Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John
By the late 1920’s aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell feels he has achieved all he wants Read More »
Murderers Among Us (1946) Wolfgang Staudte, Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer
Susanne Wallner returns to the ruins of Berlin from a Concentration Camp after WW2 to discover Read More »
Klondike Kate (1943) William Castle, Ann Savage, Tom Neal, Glenda Farrell
Molly and her troupe of dancing girls and “entertainers”, sent for by saloon owner “Sometime” Smith Read More »
The Raven (1943) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey
A vicious series of poison-pen letters spreads rumours, suspicion and fear among the inhabitants of a small French town Read More »