An American prisoner-of-war in Tokyo, manages to escape and hooks up with the Japanese underground. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Vanishing Virginian (1942) Frank Borzage, Frank Morgan, Kathryn Grayson, Spring Byington
Biography of Robert Yancey, long-term district attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia. Read More »
One Foot in Heaven (1941) Irving Rapper, Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi
In the early twentieth century, William Spence and Hope Morris Spence are a Methodist minister and his wife. Read More »
The Fan (1949) Otto Preminger, Jeanne Crain, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders, Comedy, Romance
Lord Windermere appears to all -including to his young wife Margaret – as the perfect husband. Read More »
They Met in Argentina (1941) Leslie Goodwins, Jack Hively, Maureen O’Hara, James Ellison, Alberto Vila
A Texas oil millionaire, after failing to secure oil lands in Argentina Read More »
One Exciting Night (1944) Walter Forde, Vera Lynn, Donald Stewart, Mary Clare
In wartime London, Vera gets mistaken for the girlfriend of a famous composer and invited to sing at a charity gala Read More »
That Way with Women (1947) Frederick De Cordova, Dane Clark, Martha Vickers, Sydney Greenstreet
A bored automobile industry tycoon assumes a false identity, buys a half interest in a gas station, and plays matchmaker for his daughter. Read More »
Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Myster (1941) James P. Hogan, Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin
Like the first entry in Columbia’s “Ellery Queen” series, Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. Read More »
The Reckless Moment (1949) Max Ophüls, James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks
In the charming community of Balboa 50 miles from Los Angeles, middle-class housewife Lucia Harper Read More »
Back Streets of Paris (1946) Jacques Feyder, Marcel Blistène, Françoise Rosay, Andrée Clément, Simone Signoret
Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scruple Read More »
Eight Chords (1944) Johan Jacobsen, Erling Schroeder, Asbjørn Andersen, Buster Larsen
Eight separate family dramas (uncovering many aspects of deceit) are woven together to the sound of a certain Chopin waltz. Read More »
Gentleman Jim (1942) Raoul Walsh, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson
Because boxing is a considered an illegal and disreputable enterprise in 1880’s San Francisco Read More »
The Walking Hills (1949) John Sturges, Randolph Scott, Ella Raines, William Bishop
A long-lost gold treasure, believed buried in the sand dunes of the fabulous Walking Hills Read More »
Crack-Up (1946) Irving Reis, Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall
George Steele, art curator at a small museum, has an apparent mental breakdown one night Read More »
Louisiana Story (1948) Robert J. Flaherty, Joseph Boudreaux, Lionel Le Blanc, E. Bienvenu
A young Cajun boy named Alexander Napolean Ulysses Latour spends his time on a Louisiana bayou. Read More »