In Old California, a young Frenchman transporting a chest full of silver travels by stagecoach to San Marino, to complete a complex business deal. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Tom, Dick and Harry (1941) Garson Kanin, Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal
Working girl/telephone operator Janie is engaged to conservative, dull, but very reliable car salesman Tom Read More »
Blonde from Brooklyn (1945) Del Lord, Bob Haymes, Lynn Merrick, Thurston Hall
In Blonde from Brooklyn, Bob Haymes (credited as Robert Stanton) plays ex-G.I. Dixon Harper Read More »
The Mexican Spitfire’s Baby (1941) Leslie Goodwins, Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers
It is the Lindsay’s wedding anniversary and they are fighting. To help them settle down with a house and children Read More »
Road to Rio (1947) Norman Z. McLeod, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship Read More »
Lost Angel (1943) Roy Rowland, Margaret O’Brien, James Craig, Marsha Hunt
Alpha’s been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. Read More »
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940) Lynn Shores, Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, C. Henry Gordon
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. Read More »
Summer Storm (1944) Douglas Sirk, Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Anna Lee
In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor Read More »
The Damned AKA Les maudits (1947) René Clément, Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly
Oslo, April 19th 1945, as the Third Reich is living its last days, a group of Nazis and sympathizers Read More »
Strange Victory (1948) Leo Hurwitz, Alfred Drake, Muriel Smith, Gary Merrill
“Strange Victory” is about racial bias in post World War II America. Read More »
A Woman’s Secret (1949) Nicholas Ray, Maureen O’Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame
Susan is in the hospital with a bullet near her heart. Marian has told the police that she shot Susan in a rage as Susan was giving up singing. Read More »
The Missing Lady (1946) Phil Karlson, Kane Richmond, Barbara Read, George Chandler
A jade statue, the “missing lady”, is stolen and its owner killed. Read More »
The Jolson Story (1946) Alfred E. Green, Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest
This movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson Read More »
The Crooked Way (1949) Robert Florey, John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew
A World War II veteran, suffering from amnesia but otherwise healthy, is released from a veteran’s hospital Read More »
The Testimony AKA Il testimone (1946) Pietro Germi, Roldano Lupi, Marina Berti, Ernesto Almirante
A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant will be crucial. Read More »