Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
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 »
Sing Your Way Home (1945) Anthony Mann, Jack Haley, Marcy McGuire, Glen Vernon
In this musical comedy, an arrogant war journalist is sailing back to the Big Apple after the end of WW II. Read More »
The Crimson Canary (1945) John Hoffman, Noah Beery Jr., Lois Collier, John Litel
Members of a Jazz Band come under suspicion when a beautiful nightclub singer is murdered. Read More »
Fall In (1942) Kurt Neumann, William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Robert Barrat
Captain Gillis (Frank Faylen) puts Sergeant “Dodo” Doubleday (William Tracy), because of his photographic memory Read More »
This Love of Ours (1945) William Dieterle, Merle Oberon, Charles Korvin, Claude Rains
At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel Read More »
Stagecoach Kid (1949) Lew Landers, Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Jeff Donnell
Crooked ranch foreman Thatcher sends his two henchmen, Parnell and Clint, out to murder his boss Read More »
Tenth Avenue Angel (1948) Roy Rowland, Margaret O’Brien, Angela Lansbury, George Murphy
Flavia Mills (Margaret O’Brien) has been told that her Aunt Susan Bratten’s (Dame Angela Lansbury’s) fiancé Read More »
Sundown (1941) Henry Hathaway, Gene Tierney, Bruce Cabot, George Sanders
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans. Read More »
Margie (1946) Henry King, Jeanne Crain, Glenn Langan, Lynn Bari
Margie and her daughter reminisce about Margie’s girlhood in the roaring twenties. Read More »
True to Life (1943) George Marshall, Mary Martin, Franchot Tone, Dick Powell
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. Read More »
The Day Will Dawn AKA The Avengers (1942) Harold French, Hugh Williams, Griffith Jones, Deborah Kerr
Horse race tipster and journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. Read More »