Henry Stephenson stars as a retired Scotland Yard detective. He is regarded as an icon because he has written volumes of books on the art of detection. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Great Sacrifice (1944) Veit Harlan, Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff
Albrecht is a son in a family of wealthy intellectuals that has a seaside estate near Hamburg. Read More »
Duel in the Sun (1946) King Vidor, Otto Brower, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck
When her father is hanged for shooting his wife and her lover, half-breed Pearl Chavez goes to live with distant relatives in Texas. Read More »
Queen of the Amazons (1947) Edward Finney, Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison, J. Edward Bromberg
Jean Preston leads a party to India to investigate the disappearance of her fiance, Greg Jones, but someone manages to thwart their efforts through lies and murder. Read More »
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) Norman Z. McLeod, Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff
In New York the clumsy Walter Mitty is the publisher of pulp fiction at the Pierce Publishing house owned by Bruce Pierce. Read More »
Holiday Affair (1949) Don Hartman, Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
The Christmas-season romance of a young widow and a sales clerk who (thanks to her) is unemployed. Read More »
Enemy of Women (1944) Alfred Zeisler, Claudia Drake, Wolfgang Zilzer, Donald Woods
Young Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, an unsuccessful playwright, is forced, in order to support himself, to take a position as tutor in the household of Herr Quandt. Read More »
Bury Me Dead (1947) Bernard Vorhaus, Cathy O’Donnell, June Lockhart, Hugh Beaumont
Barbara Carlin attends her own funeral and returns home suspecting that her husband, Rod Carlin Read More »
Violence (1947) Jack Bernhard, Nancy Coleman, Michael O’Shea, Sheldon Leonard
Undersover magazine reporter Ann Mason is able to infiltrate a neo-facist organization that recruits disgruntled war veterans Read More »
Lady Scarface (1941) Frank Woodruff, Dennis O’Keefe, Judith Anderson, Frances E. Neal
A Chicago gang led by scar-cheeked Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Read More »
Dead of Night (1945) Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Read More »
The Affairs of Martha (1942) Jules Dassin, Marsha Hunt, Richard Carlson, Marjorie Main
The town gossips are reporting that a household servant in exclusive Rocky Point is writing an expose of the colony. Read More »
A-Haunting We Will Go (1942) Alfred L. Werker, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dante
The boys are recruited by a gang of thugs to get a coffin containing one of their far from dead colleagues to Dayton to try and get at an inheritance. Read More »
It Happens Every Spring (1949) Lloyd Bacon, Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas
A college professor is working on a long term experiment when a baseball comes through the window destroying all his glassware. Read More »
Criminal Court (1946) Robert Wise, Tom Conway, Martha O’Driscoll, June Clayworth
A lawyer who is planning to run for District Attorney accidentally kills a gangster who owns the nightclub where the attorney’s girlfriend is a singer. Read More »