In a flashback, late-Victorian beauty Ruby, a divorcee with a shady past, calculatingly marries rich Egyptologist Nigel, who installs her at his Cairo estate while he digs for mummies. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Tennessee Johnson (1942) William Dieterle, Van Heflin, Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Hussey, Biography, Drama
The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. Read More »
This Was Paris (1942) John Harlow, Ann Dvorak, Ben Lyon, Griffith Jones, War, Drama
On the eve of the Nazi occupation, spies in Paris try to outguess each other. Read More »
Honky Tonk (1941) Jack Conway, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Frank Morgan, Comedy, Crime, Drama
“Candy” Johnson, a excellent crook of the Wild West, decides to locate a city where he could grow to be a huge boss. Read More »
Range Beyond the Blue (1947) Ray Taylor, Eddie Dean, Flash, Roscoe Ates, Action, Drama, Western
Henry Rodgers is following Margie’s stage lineup. He’s her trouble with her golden imports robbed thereby forcing her insurance premiums into an unaffordable level. Read More »
Henry V (1944) Laurence Olivier, Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Biography, Drama, History
In the motivated Olivier notion, Shakespeare’s drama begins as a function at the Globe Theatre Read More »
Tall in the Saddle (1944) Edwin L. Marin, John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond, Mystery, Western, Romance
When a stranger arrives at a western city he discovers the rancher who sent him was killed. Read More »
Sing Your Worries Away (1942) A. Edward Sutherland, Bert Lahr, June Havoc, Buddy Ebsen, Comedy, Musical
This bundle for humor as well as the musical figures has Luke Brown being drugged from the gangster operators of this swank Boathouse Inn; most especially Roxie a hot pickpocket. Read More »
Moonrise (1948) Frank Borzage, Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
Danny Hawkins, who resides in a mental shadow because his dad died by a hangman’s noose, accidentally kills a guy in a fight over a woman Read More »
The Window (1949) Ted Tetzlaff, Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
In age 9, Tommy Woodry has a reputation for telling tall stories — the newest one being that his family is moving from Manhattan to a ranch out west. Read More »
Three Strangers (1946) Jean Negulesco, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
According to a legend, even if three strangers collect before an idol of Kwan Yin (the Chinese goddess of luck and fate ) at the night of this Chinese New Year and produce a frequent desire, Kwan Yin will open her eyes and her soul and also give the wish. Read More »
Strange Affair (1944) Alfred E. Green, Allyn Joslyn, Evelyn Keyes, Marguerite Chapman, Mystery
Eminent psychologist Dr. Brenner (Erwin Kalser) invites cartoonist Bill Harrison (Allyn Joslyn) along with his spouse, Jack (Evelyn Keyes), into a feast honoring war refugees. Read More »
Johnny Angel (1945) Edwin L. Marin, George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Johnny Angel sets out to find out who chased a gold shipment out of his dad’s boat and murdered his father, the captain. Read More »
Albuquerque (1948) Ray Enright, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Western
Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar who works an ore-hauling cargo line Read More »
Backlash (1947) Eugene Forde, Jean Rogers, Richard Travis, Larry J. Blake, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A body, considered to be of a criminal attorney, sends the authorities searching for the killer. Read More »