Returning a lost wallet gains unemployed veteran Chuck Scott a job as chauffeur to Eddie Roman Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Mob Town (1941) William Nigh, Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne, Billy Halop
A young street kid idolizes his brother, a gangster who was sent to death row for murder. Read More »
Highways by Night (1942) Peter Godfrey, Richard Carlson, Jane Randolph, Jane Darwell
Rich, nerdish Tommy Van Steel seldom leaves his home gadget workshop, but somehow has become engaged to socialite Ellen Cromwell, who treats him badly. Read More »
Tanks a Million (1941) Fred Guiol, William Tracy, James Gleason, Noah Beery Jr.
Dorian “Dodo” Doubeday (William Tracy), an information clerk in a railroad station, has a photography memory. Read More »
The Pirate (1948) Vincente Minnelli, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak
It is the year 1830. In the Spanish Main, local beauty Manuela Alva, is living on the island of Calvados Read More »
The Unwritten Code (1944) Herman Rotsten, Ann Savage, Tom Neal, Roland Varno
The Unwritten Code is an offbeat, better-than-average Columbia wartime “B” picture. Read More »
The Man in Half Moon Street (1945) Ralph Murphy, Nils Asther, Helen Walker, Reinhold Schünzel
A scientist who has found a way to prolong life (he is 120 years old) finds himself in a dilemma Read More »
A Fugitive from Justice (1940) Terry O. Morse, Roger Pryor, Lucile Fairbanks, Eddie Foy Jr.
Fugitive Lee Leslie is wanted by three groups; the police, the gangsters who fear his testimony Read More »
Thunder Birds (1942) William A. Wellman, Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, John Sutton
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. Read More »
That’s the Spirit (1945) Charles Lamont, Peggy Ryan, Jack Oakie, June Vincent
A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker. Read More »