Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Johnny Allegro (1949) Ted Tetzlaff, George Raft, Nina Foch, George Macready
Los Angeles hotel lobby florist Johnny Allegro is a man with a secret: he’s a former criminal who escaped from the Sing Sing prison. Read More »
Dive Bomber (1941) Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude Read More »
Lulu Belle (1948) Leslie Fenton, Dorothy Lamour, George Montgomery, Albert Dekker
Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900’s when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. Read More »
The Bribe (1949) Robert Z. Leonard, Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton
In pursuit of stolen aircraft engines on a Central American island, federal agent Rigby meets chief Read More »
Port of New York (1949) Laslo Benedek, Scott Brady, Richard Rober, K.T. Stevens
Agents Mickey Waters and John Flannery re-team to investigate the theft of medicinal narcotics from the S.S. Florentine. Read More »
Picpus (1943) Richard Pottier, Albert Préjean, Juliette Faber, Jean Tissier
Whilst moving into her new apartment in the rue Picpus, Madame Dumont discovers Read More »
Hold That Baby! (1949) Reginald Le Borg, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell
Slip (Leo Gorcey) and Sach (Huntz Hall) lose their jobs with a laundry company after they wreck the delivery truck. Read More »
Marriage AKA Kekkon (1947) Keisuke Kinoshita, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ken Uehara, Eijirô Tôno
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family’s in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat. Read More »
I Want a Divorce (1940) Ralph Murphy, Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Gloria Dickson
Alan and Geraldine MacNally are a married couple, who are doubting if they did the right thing by marrying each other. Read More »
Men of the Timberland (1941) John Rawlins, Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Linda Hayes
Tim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast quantity Read More »
Romance on the High Seas (1948) Michael Curtiz, Busby Berkeley, Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Doris Day
Socialite Elvira Kent suspects her husband of fooling around with other women. Read More »
Banana Ridge (1942) Walter C. Mycroft, Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton, Isabel Jeans
When Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father. Read More »
No Time for Love (1943) Mitchell Leisen, Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ilka Chase
Sandhog Jim Ryan is suspended from his job helping to dig a tunnel beneath a river because Read More »
The Gang’s All Here (1943) Busby Berkeley, Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker
Playboy Andy Mason, on leave from the army, romances showgirl Eadie Allen overnight to such effect Read More »