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 »
Tag Archives: 1940s
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 »
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 »
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 »
High Sierra (1941) Raoul Walsh, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
Roy ‘Mad Dog’ Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. Read More »
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) John Ford, Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine
The Joad clan, introduced to the world in John Steinbeck’s iconic novel, is looking for a better life in California. Read More »
The Kid from Cleveland (1949) Herbert Kline, George Brent, Lynn Bari, Russ Tamblyn
Teen baseball fan Johnny Barrows sneaks into the baseball stadium of the Cleveland Indians, then playing in the 1948 World Series Read More »
Around the World (1943) Allan Dwan, Kay Kyser, Mischa Auer, Joan Davis
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics Read More »
Grandmother (1940) Frantisek Cáp, Terezie Brzková, Svetla Svozilová, Karel Tresnák
“Grandmother” is a highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena Nemcova. Read More »
It Happened Tomorrow (1944) René Clair, Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie
In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Lawrence ‘Larry’ Stevens is an ambitious reporter of The Evening News. Read More »
Mighty Joe Young (1949) Ernest B. Schoedsack, Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong
In Africa, the girl Jill Young trades a baby gorilla with two natives and raises the animal. Read More »