
Just before World War II, Japan plants a network of spies and saboteurs in California. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Silver Fleet (1943) Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley

Jaap van Leyden (Sir Ralph Richardson) is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. Read More »
Double Alibi (1940) Phil Rosen, Wayne Morris, Margaret Lindsay, William Gargan

A man’s ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect. Read More »
Bitter Sweet (1940) W.S. Van Dyke, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, George Sanders

In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn’t love Read More »
The Golden Stallion (1949) William Witney, Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dale Evans

Diamonds are being smuggled across the border from Mexico in a specially Read More »
Opened by Mistake (1940) George Archainbaud, Charles Ruggles, Janice Logan, Robert Paige

This zany comedy-mystery gets under way when wiseguy reporter Jimmie Daniels (Robert Paige) Read More »
They Met in Bombay (1941) Clarence Brown, Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre

The best-laid plans of jewel thief Gable and lady crook Russell fall apart Read More »
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) Dudley Nichols, Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey

Eugene O’Neill’s updated version of the Oresteia. In New England, after the American Civil War Read More »
Gates of the Night / Les portes de la nuit (1946) Marcel Carné, Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand

It’s Paris in the winter after its liberation. A tramp, pretending to be Destiny Read More »
Free, Blonde and 21 (1940) Ricardo Cortez, Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Joan Davis

Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. Read More »