In San Francisco, the successful self-made businessman Walter Williams has just Read More »
Tag Archives: Ella Raines
The Man in the Road (1956) Lance Comfort, Derek Farr, Ella Raines, Donald Wolfit
A man suffering from amnesia is held at an English country estate, used as a sanatorium. Read More »
The Second Face (1950) Jack Bernhard, Ella Raines, Bruce Bennett, Rita Johnson
A homely girl is seriously injured in a car crash. When she eventually wakes up in the hospital Read More »
Corvette K-225 (1943) Richard Rosson, Howard Hawks, Randolph Scott, James Brown, Ella Raines
In 1943, ‘Mac’ MacClain, Canadian Navy, has lost his ship and many men to a German torpedo. Read More »
The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947) George S. Kaufman, William Powell, Ella Raines, Peter Lind Hayes
Dim-witted blowhard, Melvin G. Ashton, is a US Senator who wants to be President. 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 »
Fighting Coast Guard (1951) Joseph Kane, Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker, Ella Raines
Bill Rourk, an ex-Coast Guard crew chief, is tricked into volunteering for the Coact Guard Officer’s Training School Read More »
Tall in the Saddle (1944) Edwin L. Marin, John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond, Mystery, Western, Romance
When a stranger arrives at a western city he discovers the rancher who sent him was killed. Read More »
Ride the Man Down (1952) Joseph Kane, Brian Donlevy, Rod Cameron, Ella Raines, Western
During the 1892 blizzard, pioneer ranching magnate Phil Evarts dies. His Hatchet Ranch is inherited by brother John and daughter Celia. Read More »
Phantom Lady (1944) Robert Siodmak, Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Unhappily married Scott Henderson spends the evening on a no-name basis with a hat-wearing woman he picked up in a bar. Read More »
Time Out of Mind (1947) Robert Siodmak, Phyllis Calvert, Robert Hutton, Ella Raines, Drama
The son of a wealthy Maine shipping magnate causes a crisis in the family when he announces that he wants a career in music rather than in the family business. Read More »
The Suspect (1944) Robert Siodmak, Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Dean Harens, Drama, Thriller
In 1902 London, unhappily married Philip Marshall meets young Mary Gray, who is unemployed and depressed. Read More »
The Web (1947) Michael Gordon, Ella Raines, Edmond O’Brien, William Bendix, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Leopold Kroner, formerly of Colby Enterprises, is released after five years in prison for embezzlement. Read More »
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) Robert Siodmak, George Sanders, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ella Raines, Sara Allgood, Drama, Film-Noir
Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises happiness at last…thwarted by passive, then increasingly active opposition from one sister. Will Harry resort to desperate measures?
Read More »
A Dangerous Profession (1949) Ted Tetzlaff, George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O’Brien
Ex-policeman Vince Kane is a partner with Joe Farley as bail bond brokers, but retains his ties and friendship with the police and Detective Nick Ferrone. Ferrone picks up Claude Brackette, a brokerage clerk, as a suspect in the securities robbery in which a policeman was killed, and Kane goes with him when the detective searches Brackett’s apartment, and Kane finds that Brackett’s wife, Lucy, is his former sweetheart. She insists her husband is innocent and pleads with Kane to get him out on bail but she has only $4,000 of the $25,000 needed. A mysterious emissary puts up $12,000 and Kanes, over Farley’s protest, makes up the rest from the company’s money. Brackett is murdered after his release. For Lucy, Kane investigates and finds that Brackett had dealings with night club owner Jerry McKay and a hoodlum named Roy Collins. Suspecting McKay was in back of the robbery, Kane begins a campaign in which he himself behaves like a crook, and demands a heavy bride from McKay for his …
Read More »