In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy; it may not be the first time. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Shepherd of the Hills (1941) Henry Hathaway, John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey
Young Matt Masters, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt’s mother and left her to die. Read More »
Accomplice (1946) Walter Colmes, Richard Arlen, Veda Ann Borg, Tom Dugan
Private detective Simon Lash and his assistant Eddie Slocum are hired by Joyce Bonniwell to find her missing husband Jim Bonniwell. Read More »
City for Conquest (1940) James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven, Anatole Litvak, Jean Negulesco
Cagney is Danny Kenny, a truck driver who enters “the fight game” and Sheridan plays his girlfriend, Peggy. Read More »
Hellfire (1949) R.G. Springsteen, Bill Elliott, Marie Windsor, Forrest Tucker
Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him Read More »
The House Across The Bay (1940) Archie Mayo, George Raft, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Nolan
An aircraft designer falls for the wife of an imprisoned gangster. Read More »
The Sea Hawk (1940) Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains
Geoffrey Thorpe is an adventurous and dashing pirate, who feels that he should pirate the Spanish ships for the good of England. Read More »
The Big Blockade (1942) Charles Frend, Will Hay, Bernard Miles, John Stuart
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war. Read More »
The Great Mr. Handel (1942) Norman Walker, Wilfrid Lawson, Elizabeth Allan, Malcolm Keen
The film deals with Handel’s life and work in London between the years 1727 and the composition of Messiah in 1741. Read More »
Why Girls Leave Home (1945) William Berke, Lola Lane, Sheldon Leonard, Pamela Blake
Diana Leslie is rescued from drowning by reporter Chris Williams. The latter believes it is an attempted murder Read More »