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 »
Tag Archives: 1940s
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 »
The Winslow Boy (1948) Anthony Asquith, Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford
In Edwardian England, a thirteen year-old cadet, Ronnie Winslow, is expelled from the naval academy at Osborne for stealing a seven shilling postal order. Read More »
Lady Luck (1946) Edwin L. Marin, Robert Young, Barbara Hale, Frank Morgan
Mary now runs a bookstore in L.A. with her grandfather, whose past gambling excesses have left her hating everything about the pastime. Read More »
Coney Island (1943) Walter Lang, Betty Grable, George Montgomery, Cesar Romero
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend Read More »
Gambling Hell (1942) Jean Delannoy, Sessue Hayakawa, Mireille Balin, Henri Guisol
A captain, who has rescued a woman from danger, sails with her to Macao to do an arms deal with the Asian proprietor of a gambling den. Read More »
Buck Benny Rides Again (1940) Mark Sandrich, Jack Benny, Ellen Drew, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer Read More »
Our Town (1940) Sam Wood, William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. Read More »