When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Punch Bowl AKA Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944) Helmut Weiss, Heinz Rühmann, Karin Himboldt, Hilde Sessak
Hans Pfeiffer and some of his friends are drinking “Feuerzangenbowle”. Talking about their school-time they discover that Hans Read More »
Living in a Big Way (1947) Gregory La Cava, Gene Kelly, Marie McDonald, Charles Winninger
Leo Gogarty marries Margaud Morgan after a whirlwind romance just before shipping out to war. Read More »
Brief Encounter (1945) David Lean, Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) Read More »
Prison Warden (1949) Seymour Friedman, Warner Baxter, Anna Lee, Harlan Warde
Victor Burnell (Warner Baxter) is a public health official who is appointed warden Read More »
Too Many Winners (1947) William Beaudine, Hugh Beaumont, Trudy Marshall, Ralph Dunn
Michael Shayne accepts an assignment to investigate a gang of pari-mutual race tickets Read More »
The Velvet Touch (1948) Jack Gage, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor
Broadway star Valerie Stanton, breaking up with her producer-lover Gordon Dunning, unintentionally kills him. Read More »
Sinister Journey (1948) George Archainbaud, William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks
Having trouble, railroad executive Tom Smith sends for Hoppy. Two of Smith’s employees, Roberts and Banks are after his money. Read More »
The Guinea Pig (1948) Roy Boulting, Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim, Bernard Miles
Jack Read, a working-class boy, wins a scholarship to a public school as part of a post-World War II Read More »
Confidential Agent (1945) Herman Shumlin, Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Victor Francen
During the Spanish Civil War, a republican courier travels to England to try and buy coal. Read More »
The Tender Years (1948) Harold D. Schuster, Joe E. Brown, Richard Lyon, Noreen Nash
The first of the Edward L. Alperson “Alson Productions” for 20th Century-Fox distribution, featuring the return to the screen Read More »
How Green Was My Valley (1941) John Ford, Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Anna Lee
Life is hard in a Welsh mining town and no less so for the Morgan family. Read More »
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943) James P. Hogan, Ludwig Donath, Gale Sondergaard, George Dolenz
A clerk in 1942 Vienna who has a gift for mimicry, is arrested for doing a Hitler impression. Read More »
Action in Arabia (1944) Léonide Moguy, George Sanders, Virginia Bruce, Lenore Aubert
Michael Gordon, star reporter with a nose for trouble, is heading home after completing a difficult assignment in Iraq. Read More »
Look Who’s Laughing (1941) Allan Dwan, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Jim Jordan
Several popular radio personalities converge in the RKO Radio “comedy salad” Look Who’s Laughing. Read More »