A pair of barbers are driven out of business because most of the men in their small town are drafted into the army. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Fiamme sul mare (1948) Vittorio Cottafavi, Michal Waszynski, Carlo Ninchi, Evi Maltagliati, Silvana Jachino
A former war captain buys a wrecked ship Read More »
Hideout (1949) Philip Ford, Lloyd Bridges, Lorna Gray
Hannah Kelly and Edie Hanson vie for the attentions of the naive attorney George Browning. Read More »
The Smiling Ghost (1941) Lewis Seiler, Wayne Morris, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith
Elinor Bentley Fairchild’s previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Read More »
Desperate (1947) Anthony Mann, Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr
When mobster Walt Radak tries to trick independent trucker Steve Randall Read More »
Ladies’ Day (1943) Leslie Goodwins, Lupe Velez, Eddie Albert, Patsy Kelly
Wacky Waters, the greatest pitcher in baseball, is burning up the league until Read More »
Sepia Cinderella (1947) Arthur H. Leonard, Billy Daniels, Sheila Guyse, Tondaleyo
Plot concerns a struggling band leader’s rise to fame after overcoming many obstacles Read More »
Castle Sinister (1948) Oscar Burn, Mara Russell-Tavernan, Robert Essex, Karl Meir
Various people converge on remote, eerie Glennye Castle which is reputedly Read More »
The Rothschilds / Die Rothschilds (1940) Erich Waschneck, Erich Ponto, Carl Kuhlmann, Albert Lippert
Anti-semitic Nazi propaganda “biography” of the Rothschilds, a German Jewish family Read More »
The Blum Affair / Affaire Blum (1948) Erich Engel, Hans Christian Blech, Ernst Waldow, Paul Bildt
This early postwar suspense story, based on a well-known 1926 murder trial Read More »