Johnny Angel sets out to find out who chased a gold shipment out of his dad’s boat and murdered his father, the captain. Read More »
Tag Archives: Claire Trevor
Human Cargo (1936) Allan Dwan, Claire Trevor, Brian Donlevy, Alan Dinehart, Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Bonnie Brewster (Claire Trevor) and “Packy” Campbell (Brian Donlevy), rival reporters on competing newspapers Read More »
Time Out for Romance (1937) Malcolm St. Clair, Claire Trevor, Michael Whalen, Joan Davis, Adventure, Comedy
A girl (Trevor) escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man (Whalen) in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot. Read More »
The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942) Sidney Salkow, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, Evelyn Keyes, Adventure
Big Town Girl (1937) Alfred L. Werker, Claire Trevor, Donald Woods, Alan Dinehart, Drama, Comedy
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the “Masked Countess”, because he estranged husband is a crook. Read More »
Career Woman (1936) Lewis Seiler, Claire Trevor, Michael Whalen, Isabel Jewell, Drama
A girl accused of killing her father is defended unsuccessfully by a flashy lawyer and successfully by a new, straightforward one. Read More »
Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943) Ray Enright, Claire Trevor, Jess Barker, Edgar Buchanan, Drama, War
A 4F military school teacher’s lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front. Read More »
Murder, My Sweet (1944) Edward Dmytryk, Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
This adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel ‘Farewell, My Lovely’, renamed for the American market to prevent filmgoers mistaking it for a musical (for which Powell was already famous) has private eye Philip Marlowe hired by Moose Malloy, a petty crook just out of prison after a seven year stretch, to look for his former girlfriend, Velma, who has not been seen for the last six years. The case is tougher than Marlowe expected as his initially promising enquiries lead to a complex web of deceit involving bribery, perjury and theft, and where no one’s motivation is obvious, least of all Marlowe’s.
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The High and the Mighty (1954) William A. Wellman, John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Action, Adventure, Drama
One disaster after another happens on this trans-Pacific flight. You have the pilot who loses his nerve! The washed-up co-pilot. The milquetoast flight engineer. The young hot shot second officer. And a cabin full of passengers with every range of problems and personalities there could possibly be. Here you have the Duke in a role he didn’t want, and a movie with the title song that became Duke’s theme. What else could any John Wayne fan want? It’s all here, and then some.
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