Detective Lieutenant Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigates the killing of Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) Joseph H. Lewis, Nina Foch, May Whitty, George Macready
Julia Ross secures employment, through a rather nosy employment agency Read More »
Cottage to Let (1941) Anthony Asquith, Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, Jeanne De Casalis
A wartime cottage on a Scottish estate becomes a focus of attention Read More »
A Scream in the Dark (1943) George Sherman, Robert Lowery, Marie McDonald, Edward Brophy
Newspaper reporter turned detective Mike, along with his partner Eddie Tough (who used to be his photographer on the paper) Read More »
Irene (1940) Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle, Ray Milland, Roland Young
Sent by her employers on an errand to the home of the wealthy Mrs. Vincent, Irene O’Dare meets Don, a friend of Bob, Mrs. Vincent’s son. Read More »
Yanks Ahoy (1943) Kurt Neumann, William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Marjorie Woodworth
Sgt. Doubleday and Sgt. Ames are deployed overseas, but a saboteur is thought to be aboard their transport ship. Read More »
Buck Privates (1941) Arthur Lubin, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lee Bowman
Bud and Lou enlist in the army in order to escape being hauled off to jail, and soon find themselves in basic training. Read More »
Chad Hanna (1940) Henry King, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Linda Darnell
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with Albany the star equestrian rider. Read More »
Theirs Is the Glory (1946) Brian Desmond Hurst, Stanley Maxted, Thomas Scullion, Allan Wood
In 1944, British General Montgomery and his command were way north of the Allied line Read More »
Four Flights to Love AKA Paradis perdu (1940) Abel Gance, Fernand Gravey, Elvire Popesco, André Alerme
Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker’s assistant. Read More »
A Night in Casablanca (1946) Archie Mayo, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
In post-war Casablanca, Ronald Kornblow is hired to run a hotel whose previous managers have all wound up being murdered. Read More »
Three Wise Fools (1946) Edward Buzzell, Margaret O’Brien, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone
It had been forty years since Richard, James and Theodore insulted The O’Monahan and he put a vexing blessing on them. Read More »
Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948) Byron Haskin, Sabu, Wendell Corey, Joy Page
A doctor hunts a vicious, man-eating tiger that terrorizes a native jungle village. Read More »
Railroaded! (1947) Anthony Mann, John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont
Sexy beautician Clara Calhoun, who has a bookie operation in her back room, connives with her boyfriend Read More »
The Great Dictator (1940) Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie
20 years after the end of WWI, in which the nation of Tomainia was on the losing side Read More »