The ethicist, Placido Mesquita, coming to Lisbon to visit his nephew Edward to rescue him from a damnable life of bad habits Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Sand (1949) Louis King, Mark Stevens, Coleen Gray, Rory Calhoun
Jeff Keane’s expensive showhorse escapes from a train and runs wild in the Colorado wilderness. Read More »
I See a Dark Stranger (1946) Frank Launder, Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley
Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Read More »
Escape in the Desert (1945) Edward A. Blatt, Jean Sullivan, Philip Dorn, Irene Manning
Escape in the Desert is a thinly disguised remake of The Petrified Forest (1936), updated with a WW II angle. Read More »
Good-Time Girl (1948) David MacDonald, Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Herbert Lom
A young girl from the ghetto gets involved with some criminals. Driving while drunk, she knocks down and kills a policeman. Read More »
I Walk Alone (1948) Byron Haskin, Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas
Frankie Madison returns to New York after 14 years in prison. Noll Turner, Frankie’s former partner in bootlegging Read More »
I’ll Turn to You (1946) Geoffrey Faithfull, Terry Randall, Don Stannard, Harry Welchman
When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home. Read More »
The Lady from Shanghai (1947) Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane
Michael O’Hara, against his better judgement, hires on as a crew member of Arthur Bannister’s yacht, sailing to San Francisco. Read More »
So Evil My Love (1948) Lewis Allen, Ray Milland, Ann Todd, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Olivia Harwood, missionary’s widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. Read More »
The Body Disappears (1941) D. Ross Lederman, Jeffrey Lynn, Jane Wyman, Edward Everett Horton
Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford Read More »
Somewhere I’ll Find You (1942) Wesley Ruggles, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Robert Sterling
Two brothers, both war correspondents, vie for the affection of the same girl at the beginning of World War II Read More »
The Crimson Ghost (1946) Fred C. Brannon, William Witney, Charles Quigley, Linda Stirling, Clayton Moore
The Crimson Ghost—attired in black hood and cloak, skull mask and surgical gloves—skulks Read More »
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948) Irving Pichel, William Powell, Ann Blyth, Irene Hervey
As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean Read More »
Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) Harry Joe Brown, Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn, Constance Dowling
The wild and woolly early days of New York — when it was still known as New Amsterdam Read More »
Criminal Investigator (1942) Jean Yarbrough, Robert Lowery, Edith Fellows, John Miljan
A reporter investigates the murder of a showgirl, who was the widow of a millionaire. Read More »