Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Vasilisa the Beautiful AKA Vasilisa prekrasnaya (1940) Aleksandr Rou, Georgiy Millyar, Sergei Stolyarov, Lev Potyomkin
Based on a Russian folk tale, Vasilisa Prekrasnaya (Vasilisa the Beautiful) is about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. Read More »
Thundering Hoofs (1942) Lesley Selander, Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Lee ‘Lasses’ White
Bill Underwood (Tim Holt) falls out with his father (Gordon DeMain) and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge of his father’s stage line. Read More »
Fighting Frontier (1943) Lambert Hillyer, Tim Holt, Cliff Edwards, Ann Summers
Kit Russell, appointed special investigator, has infiltrated a local robber gang ostensibly led by Snap Read More »
The Arizona Ranger (1948) John Rawlins, Tim Holt, Jack Holt, Nan Leslie
Bob Morgan returns home but alienates his father by not staying at his ranch. Read More »
Love on the Dole (1941) John Baxter, Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney
Filmed in the North Country of England, this is a film noir set in the 1930s as a family struggles with poverty and unemployment. Read More »
Passkey to Danger (1946) Lesley Selander, Kane Richmond, Stephanie Bachelor, Adele Mara
Tex Hanlon is some kind of advertising man who comes up with a concept for a women’s clothing campaign called THE THREE SPRINGS. Read More »
Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943) H. Bruce Humberstone, Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time Read More »
The Millerson Case (1947) George Archainbaud, Warner Baxter, Nancy Saunders, Clem Bevans
In the 8th film of Columbia’s “Crime Doctor” series, Dr. Robert Ordway is vacationing in the Blue Ridge Mountains Read More »
Nabonga (1944) Sam Newfield, Buster Crabbe, Fifi D’Orsay, Barton MacLane
In an effort to clear the name of his deceased father, young Ray Gorman travels to darkest Africa Read More »
Calling Philo Vance (1940) William Clemens, James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O’Neill
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. Read More »
The Mutineers AKA Pirate Ship (1949) Jean Yarbrough, Jon Hall, Adele Jergens, George Reeves
Ship captain Duncan is found murdered, his pockets stuffed with counterfeit money. Read More »
John and Irene (1949) Asbjørn Andersen, Anker Sørensen, Bodil Kjer, Ebbe Rode, Ib Schønberg
This sombre drama qualifies to be a true film noir. The atmosphere is sinister and depressing, and the performances are resigned and tragic. Read More »
The Clay Pigeon (1949) Richard Fleischer, Bill Williams, Barbara Hale, Richard Quine
Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason Read More »
Back Street (1941) Robert Stevenson, Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson
Pretty Rae Smith and handsome Walter Saxel meet, fall in love and make plans to marry. Read More »