After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo (Jorge Negrete) assumes the business management. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Boomerang! (1947) Elia Kazan, Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb
Connecticut prosecutor Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews), faced with a political maelstrom in the wake of the shooting death of a Catholic priest on a city street corner Read More »
The Way to the Stars (1945) Anthony Asquith, Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. Read More »
Blonde Inspiration (1941) Busby Berkeley, John Shelton, Virginia Grey, Albert Dekker
Unknown writer Jonathan Briggs is tricked into buying in to a struggling western magazine only to find that all Is not as it appears. Read More »
Keeping Company (1940) S. Sylvan Simon, Frank Morgan, Ann Rutherford, John Shelton
A real estate agent and his wife try to advise their eldest daughter about marriage. Read More »
Counter-Espionage (1942) Edward Dmytryk, Warren William, Eric Blore, Hillary Brooke
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing. Read More »
Task Force (1949) Delmer Daves, Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris
On the day of his retirement, Rear Admiral Jonathan L. Scott reflects on his role in introducing aircraft carriers to the U.S. Navy. Read More »
The Strange Woman (1946) Edgar G. Ulmer, Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward
Beautiful Jenny Hager finds she can always get what she wants from the men in the 1820’s port of Bangor, Maine. Read More »
South of St. Louis (1949) Ray Enright, Joel McCrea, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott
Produced by Milton Sperling’s United States Pictures, South of St. Louis was given a widespread release by Warner Bros. Read More »
The Constant Nymph (1943) Edmund Goulding, Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Brenda Marshall
Fourteen-year-old Tessa is hopelessly in love with handsome composer Lewis Dodd, a family friend. Lewis adores Tessa, but has never shown any romantic feelings toward her. Read More »
The Weaker Sex (1948) Roy Ward Baker, Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Joan Hopkins
Life on the home front during World War 2. Martha Dacre tries to keep her home running as normal, during the run up to the D Day landings. Read More »
The Prime Minister (1941) Thorold Dickinson, John Gielgud, Diana Wynyard, Will Fyffe
A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria. Read More »
Juke Girl (1942) Curtis Bernhardt, Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Richard Whorf
Danny and Steve are migrant farm workers who wind up in Cat Tail, Florida. Read More »
Alias Nick Beal (1949) John Farrow, Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell
Righteous district attorney Joseph Foster’s main goal in life is to rid his city of the gangsters infesting it. Read More »
Road House (1948) Jean Negulesco, Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm
Jefty, owner of a roadhouse in a backwoods town, hires sultry, tough-talking torch singer Lily Stevens against the advice of his manager Pete Morgan. Read More »