
Irish colleen Nellie is in love with handsome Jerry Kelly, even though her father objects. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Send for Paul Temple (1946) John Argyle, Anthony Hulme, Joy Shelton, Tamara Desni

This is the first film based on Francis Durbridge’s long-running BBC Radio serial. Read More »
The Way of All Flesh (1940) Louis King, Akim Tamiroff, Gladys George, William Henry

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna Read More »
The Mayor of 44th Street (1942) Alfred E. Green, George Murphy, Anne Shirley, William Gargan

In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency Read More »
Sister Kenny (1946) Dudley Nichols, Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger

Elizabeth Kenny, as a young nurse out in the Australian bush discovers an effective treatment for polio Read More »
Mexican Spitfires Elephant (1942) Leslie Goodwins, Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Walter Reed

A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette Read More »
Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) Robert Wise, Simone Simon, John Emery, Kurt Kreuger

One of the few failures for RKO Radio’s resident “prestige programmer” producer Val Lewton Read More »
Dual Alibi (1947) Alfred Travers, Herbert Lom, Phyllis Dixey, Terence de Marney

Twin trapezists fall out over a lottery ticket and a worthless woman, but later extract a unique revenge. Read More »
Larceny in Her Heart (1946) Sam Newfield, Hugh Beaumont, Cheryl Walker, Ralph Dunn

In the second of the PRC “Michael Shayne” series,civic crusader Burton Stallings Read More »
Murder Is My Business (1946) Sam Newfield, Hugh Beaumont, Cheryl Walker, Lyle Talbot

Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Read More »