Gotham College professor Wanley and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to the men’s club. Read More »
Tag Archives: Joan Bennett
Theres Always Tomorrow (1956) Douglas Sirk, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, Drama, Romance
Clifford Groves, toy manufacturer, is in full charge at the factory but feels left out and taken for granted by his wife and children at home. Read More »
The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932) William K. Howard, Joan Bennett, Donald Cook, Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher, Crime, Drama
The Man I Married (1940) Irving Pichel, Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Lloyd Nolan, Drama
Anti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi, trying to get their son to America. Read More »
Desire in the Dust (1960) William F. Claxton, Raymond Burr, Martha Hyer, Joan Bennett, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Lonnie Wilson, the son of a toothless sharecropper, Zuba Wilson, returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand’s son in an automobile accident. Read More »
Confirm or Deny (1941) Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang, Don Ameche, Joan Bennett, Roddy McDowall, Drama, War
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn’t send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love. Read More »
The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942) Richard Wallace, Joan Bennett, Franchot Tone, Allyn Joslyn, Comedy, Romance, War
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Read More »
The Man In the Iron Mask (1939) James Whale, Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Adventure, History, Romance
D’Artagnan and the musketeers are the only ones who know of the existence of a twin brother, and Fouquet uses his influence to keep everyone silenced. Read More »
Fathers Little Dividend (1951) Vincente Minnelli, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Comedy, Romance
In this sequel to Father of the Bride (1950), newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby Read More »
Secret Beyond the Door (1947) Fritz Lang, Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
In this Freudian version of the Bluebeard tale, a young, trust-funded New Yorker goes to Mexico on vacation before marrying an old friend whom she considers a safe choice for a husband. Read More »
Me and My Gal (1932) Raoul Walsh, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Marion Burns, Drama, Comedy, Romance
Young New York cop Dan falls in love with waterfront waitress Helen. Helen’s sister Kate falls for gangster Duke. Dan must do in Duke.
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The Macomber Affair (1947) Zoltan Korda, Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston, Adventure
Robert Wilson leads safaris on the Kenyan savanna. On this occasion, he takes Mr. and Mrs. Macomber out to hunt buffalo. Read More »
Arizona to Broadway (1933) James Tinling, James Dunn, Joan Bennett, Herbert Mundin, Comedy, Crime, Romance
In the small town of Larrup, Arizona, Smiley, a con-artist traveling with cohorts Kingfish, Morris and Ambrose, persuades Lynn Martin Read More »
Man Hunt / Chasse à l’Homme (1941) Fritz Lang, Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, Drama, Thriller, War
On July 29, 1939, renowned British big game hunter Captain Alan Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) slips through the forest undetected near the Berghof, Adolf Hitler’s residence near Berchtesgaden. Getting the dictator in his telescopic sight, he pulls the trigger on his unloaded rifle and gives a wave. He ponders a moment, then loads a live round, but is discovered at the last second by a guard, and the shot goes wild…
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Little Women (1933) George Cukor
Little Women is a “coming of age” drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is away serving as a minister to the troops. The family, headed by thier beloved Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and his high spirited grandson Laurie.
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