Arriving in Red River to join their friend Chet Andrews in the ownership of a cattle ranch Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Women in Bondage (1943) Steve Sekely, Gail Patrick, Nancy Kelly, William Henry, Drama, War
Margot Bracken returns home to Germany after several years of absence, and is horrified at the degraded status which has been forced on the women of her homeland. Read More »
Phantom of Chinatown (1940) Phil Rosen, Keye Luke, Lotus Long, Grant Withers, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton the famous explorer Read More »
Lady in the Lake (1947) Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
The camera shows Phillip Marlowe’s view from the first-person in this adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s book. Read More »
Hitlers Children (1943) Edward Dmytryk, Irving Reis, Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Drama, Romance
This propaganda piece starts in 1933. Prof. Nichols’ American school in Berlin is next door to a school for the Hitler Youth. Read More »
Mexicana (1945) Alfred Santell, Tito Guízar, Constance Moore, Leo Carrillo, Music, Romance
In this musical comedy, a popular Mexican singer finds himself tiring of the constant adulation of rabidly adoring females Read More »
Father Was a Fullback (1949) John M. Stahl, Fred MacMurray, Maureen O’Hara, Betty Lynn, Comedy, Sport
Coach George Copper’s college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-and-stuffy but influential alumni Roger Jessup Read More »
Flaxy Martin (1949) Richard L. Bare, Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Unscrupulous showgirl Flaxy Martin involves young attorney Walter Colby with mobster Hap Richie. Read More »
Escape (1940) Mervyn LeRoy, Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt, Drama
An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of a German countess he engineers her escape. Read More »
International Squadron (1941) Lothar Mendes, Lewis Seiler, Ronald Reagan, Olympe Bradna, James Stephenson, Adventure, Drama, War
The true story of the exploits of the RAF’s (Royal Air Force) foreign legion battling the German Luftwaffe Read More »
The Get-Away (1941) Edward Buzzell, Richard Rosson, Robert Sterling, Charles Winninger, Donna Reed, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
A government agent goes under cover in prison to gain confidence with a wanted criminal and get information regarding his gang. Read More »
Shockproof (1949) Douglas Sirk, Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, John Baragrey, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Jenny Marsh, still dangerously attractive after 5 years in prison for killing a man in defense of her shady lover Harry Read More »
A Tragedy at Midnight (1942) Joseph Santley, John Howard, Margaret Lindsay, Roscoe Karns, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
This Republic murder mystery starts with a radio broadcast by Greg Sherman who solves cases on the air that the local police cannot solve. Read More »
Possessed (1947) Curtis Bernhardt, Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A woman wanders the streets of Los Angeles in some sort of emotional distress. She is also under some delusion as she approaches many men, strangers who she calls “David”. Read More »
Lady with Red Hair (1940) Curtis Bernhardt, Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains, Richard Ainley, Biography, Drama
A messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. Read More »