
After the death of her famous opera-singing aunt, Paula Alquist (Ingrid Bergman) is sent to study in Italy to become a great opera singer as well. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
I’ll Be Seeing You (1944) William Dieterle, George Cukor, Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple

Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough Read More »
This England (1941) David MacDonald, Emlyn Williams, John Clements, Constance Cummings

This British- National-Anglo American production reinforces the theme that whoever assails Read More »
Born to Kill (1947) Robert Wise, Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak

In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy; it may not be the first time. Read More »
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

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 »