During WWII, in France, Jean Picard is a criminal who is about to be executed via the guillotine, but an air raid interrupts it and allows him to escape. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Stallion Road (1947) James V. Kern, Raoul Walsh, Ronald Reagan, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott
A veterinarian and rancher (Ronald Reagan) and a novelist (Zachery Scott) compete for the affections of a horse breeder (Alexis Smith) during an outbreak of anthrax. Read More »
The Wolf Man (1941) George Waggner, Claude Rains, Warren William, Lon Chaney Jr.
Upon the death of his brother, Larry Talbot returns from America to his ancestral home in Wales. Read More »
Spy Ship (1942) B. Reeves Eason, Craig Stevens, Irene Manning, Maris Wrixon
A radio repoter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. Read More »
Kiss of Death (1947) Henry Hathaway, Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray
Small-time crook Nick Bianco gets caught in a jewel heist and despite urgings from well-meaning district attorney D’Angelo Read More »
Two Guys from Texas (1948) David Butler, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Dorothy Malone
In this western-musical comedy, a remake of Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938), two vaudevillians find themselves stranded on a Texas dude ranch. Read More »
Moss Rose (1947) Gregory Ratoff, Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, Ethel Barrymore
Set in turn-of-the-century London, a woman trying to solve the mystery of a friend’s murder finds that she may be the next victim. Read More »
Dangerous Blondes (1943) Leigh Jason, Allyn Joslyn, Evelyn Keyes, Edmund Lowe
Mystery writer Barry Craig and his wife Jane prefer solving crimes to writing about them, and they get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick. Read More »
The Three Musketeers (1948) George Sidney, Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson
The hectic adventures of D’Artagnan, a young provincial noble who just comes to Paris to enter the musketeers. Read More »
Flame of Barbary Coast (1945) Joseph Kane, John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut
Duke falls for Flaxen in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Read More »
Operette (1940) Willi Forst, Maria Holst, Dora Komar
The first film of Willi Forst’s legendary Viennese trilogy is essentially a condensed history of the golden age of Viennese operetta mirrored in the fictive love story Read More »
Enchantment (1948) Irving Reis, David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes
Uncle Rollo finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love, Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. Read More »
June Bride (1948) Bretaigne Windust, Bette Davis, Robert Montgomery, Fay Bainter
Foreign correspondent Carey Jackson is offered a job on Home Life, a “women’s” magazine; he accepts when he finds the editor is his old flame Linda Gilman. Read More »
Man from Frisco (1944) Robert Florey, Michael O’Shea, Anne Shirley, Gene Lockhart
Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Read More »
Beat the Band (1947) John H. Auer, Frances Langford, Ralph Edwards, Phillip Terry
Based on a Broadway musical, the story has Damon Dillingham, newly-discharged from the Army following WW II Read More »