A blackmail threat from an old prison buddy compels a man who has gone straight to consider yet another crime. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Magnificent Dope (1942) Walter Lang, Henry Fonda, Lynn Bari, Don Ameche
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest Read More »
Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941) Victor Schertzinger, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant
New York chorus girl Cindy Lou Bethany becomes frustrated when she prepares for an audition for a Broadway musical Read More »
T-Men (1947) Anthony Mann, Dennis O’Keefe, Wallace Ford, Alfred Ryder
When the American Treasure Department finds that a gang in Los Angeles Read More »
Street Acquaintances AKA Straßenbekanntschaft (1948) Peter Pewas, Gisela Trowe, Alice Treff, Ursula Voß
Erika is 20 lives with her strict parents in a post-war apartment Read More »
Heart and Soul AKA Cuore (1948) Duilio Coletti, Vittorio De Sica, María Mercader, Giorgio De Lullo
A young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates Read More »
All That Money Can Buy (1941) William Dieterle, Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell
A down-on-his-luck farmer makes a deal with the devil for seven years of prosperity. Read More »
Home in Indiana (1944) Henry Hathaway, Walter Brennan, Jeanne Crain, Lon McCallister
A lad with a penchant for trouble is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in Indiana. Read More »
Dragonwyck (1946) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price
In 1844, the Wells family lives in a small farm of their own in Greenwich Read More »
The Boy with Green Hair (1948) Joseph Losey, Pat O’Brien, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale
Peter Frye, typical American boy, is orphaned when his parents are caught in the London Blitz. Read More »
The Caribbean Mystery (1945) Robert D. Webb, James Dunn, Sheila Ryan, Edward Ryan
The Caribbean Mystery is a remake of Mr. Moto on Danger Island (1939)-which in turn was a remake of Murder in Trinidad. Read More »
Zoya (1944) Lev Arnshtam, Galina Vodyanitskaya, Yekaterina Skvortsova, Kseniya Tarasova
Zoya is the inspirational true story of one of Russia’s most beloved national heroines. Read More »
Bad Men of Missouri (1941) Ray Enright, Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman, Wayne Morris
The Younger brothers, Cole (Dennis Morgan), Bob (Wayne Morris) and Jim (Arthur Kennedy) Read More »
Riding the Wind (1942) Edward Killy, Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Joan Barclay
It’s the ranchers whose cattle are dying of thirst versus Henry Dodge whose dam holds all the water. Read More »
Her Primitive Man (1944) Charles Lamont, Louise Allbritton, Robert Paige, Robert Benchley
A woman sets out to prove that a writer’s ideas about “savages” are wrong. Read More »