In the second of the PRC “Michael Shayne” series,civic crusader Burton Stallings Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Murder Is My Business (1946) Sam Newfield, Hugh Beaumont, Cheryl Walker, Lyle Talbot
Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Read More »
Once a Jolly Swagman (1949) Jack Lee, Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Bill Owen
Factory worker Bill Fox (Sir Dirk Bogarde) is fired from a reliable job and becomes a successful motorbike racer Read More »
Three Little Girls in Blue (1946) H. Bruce Humberstone, June Haver, George Montgomery, Vivian Blaine
A reworking of the movie Three Blind Mice (1938) based on the play of the same name Read More »
Lisbon Story (1946) Paul L. Stein, Patricia Burke, David Farrar, Walter Rilla
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist. Read More »
Highway West (1941) William C. McGann, Brenda Marshall, Arthur Kennedy, William Lundigan
In this crime drama, a remake of Heat Lightning (1931), a robber kills a bank Read More »
The Return of Monte Cristo (1946) Henry Levin, Louis Hayward, Barbara Britton, George Macready
Edmond Dantes is falsely accused of a crime and imprisoned. Read More »
Honolulu Lu (1941) Charles Barton, Lupe Velez, Leo Carrillo, Bruce Bennett
Consuelo Cordoba is a headstrong girl trying to reform her con man uncle Read More »
Wild Geese Calling (1941) John Brahm, Henry Fonda, Joan Bennett, Warren William
In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. Read More »
Northwest Outpost (1947) Allan Dwan, Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, Joseph Schildkraut
The daughter of a Russian general arrives at Fort Ross American outpost Read More »
The Valley of Decision (1945) Tay Garnett, Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Read More »
Jewels of Brandenburg (1947) Eugene Forde, Richard Travis, Micheline Cheirel, Leonard Strong
Johnny Vickers is a US government agent operating in London. Read More »
It’s Hard to Be Good (1948) Jeffrey Dell, Anne Crawford, Jimmy Hanley, Raymond Huntley
A conscientious captain emerges from the war with ambitions to spread peace Read More »
Over My Dead Body (1942) Malcolm St. Clair, Milton Berle, Mary Beth Hughes, Reginald Denny
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. Read More »
The Sword AKA Meitô bijomaru (1945) Kenji Mizoguchi, Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kan Ishii, Eijirô Yanagi
Kiyone Sakurai, an apprentice sword maker makes a sword for his guardian, Kozaemon Onoda. Read More »