When a dead body turns up in the home of a famous actress, two reporters (who also happen to be in love with one another) compete to get the real scoop. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Desiderio (1946) Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini, Massimo Girotti, Carlo Ninchi, Elli Parvo, Drama
Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in an attempt to go straight. Read More »
Force of Evil (1948) Abraham Polonsky, John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. Read More »
Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942) Alfred Santell, Dorothy Lamour, Richard Denning, Jack Haley, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A young girl’s parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. Read More »
It Started with Eve (1941) Henry Koster, Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings, Comedy, Musical, Romance
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father’s last moments happy. Read More »
Fury at Furnace Creek (1948) H. Bruce Humberstone, Victor Mature, Coleen Gray, Glenn Langan, Western
The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory Read More »
Time to Kill (1942) Herbert I. Leeds, Lloyd Nolan, Heather Angel, Doris Merrick, Film-Noir, Mystery
A private detective is hired to retrieve a valuable antique coin that was stolen from its owner by her son, who used it to pay off a blackmailer. Read More »
One Sunday Afternoon (1948) Raoul Walsh, Dennis Morgan, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Musical, Romance
This third film version of James Hagan’s stage play One Sunday Afternoon was directed by Raoul Walsh, who helmed the second adaptation (1941’s Strawberry Blonde). Read More »
Flowing Gold (1940) Alfred E. Green, John Garfield, Frances Farmer, Pat O’Brien, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Johnny Blake, dodging the law on a false murder charge, gets work in the oil fields. His boss and friend Hap O’Connor turns on him when Johnny and Hap’s girlfriend Linda fall in love. Read More »
Dangerously They Live (1941) Robert Florey, John Garfield, Nancy Coleman, Raymond Massey, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Dr. Michael Lewis treats Jane, a mysterious woman claiming to be a British secret agent on the run from German spies. Read More »
No Minor Vices (1948) Lewis Milestone, Dana Andrews, Lilli Palmer, Louis Jourdan, Comedy
Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. Read More »
Lillian Russell (1940) Irving Cummings, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Biography, Drama, Musical
Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore. Read More »
Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949) William Castle, Howard Duff, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
In San Francisco, during the 1940s, US Treasury agents interrupt an illicit exchange between a sailor and a drug dealer. Read More »
Virginia City (1940) Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Action, Drama, History, Romance, Western
During the American Civil War, Captain Kerry Bradford escapes from a notorious confederate prison. Read More »
The Long Voyage Home (1940) John Ford, John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Drama, War
Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. Read More »