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Tag Archives: 1940s
The Cobra Strikes (1948) Charles Reisner, Sheila Ryan, Richard Fraser, Leslie Brooks
Hard-boiled reporter Mike Kent investigates the murder of a prominent scientist Read More »
Secrets of Scotland Yard (1944) George Blair, Edgar Barrier, Stephanie Bachelor, C. Aubrey Smith
German spies have infiltrated Scotland Yard’s secret decoding unit. A special agent is dispatched to uncover them. Read More »
Cardboard Cavalier (1949) Walter Forde, Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood, Jerry Desmonde
In Cromwellian England, royalists commission a barrow boy to carry a secret letter. Read More »
Valley of the Zombies (1946) Philip Ford, Robert Livingston, Lorna Gray, Ian Keith
Dr. Maynard (Charles Trowbridge’) tells Dr. Terry Evans (Robert Livingston) and his nurse Read More »
Trail of the Vigilantes (1940) Allan Dwan, Franchot Tone, Warren William, Broderick Crawford
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang. Read More »
Revenge of the Zombies (1943) Steve Sekely, John Carradine, Gale Storm, Robert Lowery
Scott Warrington and his hired detective, Larry Adams, arrive at an old mansion in the middle of a Louisiana Read More »
Ice-Capades (1941) Joseph Santley, James Ellison, Jerry Colonna, Dorothy Lewis
Newsreel cameraman Bob Clemens, an avowed woman hater, is assigned to cover the Lake Placid Read More »
A Man Betrayed (1941) John H. Auer, John Wayne, Frances Dee, Edward Ellis
Country lawyer Lynn Hollister comes to the city to investigate the murder of a friend Read More »
Five Graves to Cairo (1943) Billy Wilder, Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff
June, 1942. The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor Read More »
Ma! He’s Making Eyes at Me (1940) Harold D. Schuster, Tom Brown, Constance Moore, Richard Carle
Woodbury’s fashionable gown-salon on Fifth Avenue is about to take bankruptcy. Read More »
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Robert Hamer, Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson
Louis Mazzini’s mother belongs to the aristocratic family D’Ascoyne, but she ran away with an opera singer. Read More »
The Falcon Out West (1944) William Clemens, Tom Conway, Carole Gallagher, Barbara Hale
When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. Read More »
Atlantic Convoy (1942) Lew Landers, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Field, John Beal
American naval forces are using a port in Iceland as a base for anti-submarine patrols to protect Read More »
And Then There Were None (1945) René Clair, Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward
Ten people are invited for a weekend on an island by a Mr U. N. Own, but he isn’t on the island. Read More »