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Tag Archives: 1940s
Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948) John Paddy Carstairs, Jean Kent, Albert Lieven, Derrick De Marney

Spies steal a diary from an embassy whose contents could ignite a war, then one of them steals Read More »
The Descendants of Taro Urashima / Urashima Tarô no kôei (1946) Mikio Naruse, Susumu Fujita, Nobuo Nakamura, Haruko Sugimura

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier Read More »
Two in a Taxi (1941) Robert Florey, Anita Louise, Russell Hayden, Noah Beery Jr.

Jimmy Owens (Russell Hayden) is a driver for a taxicab-fleet trying to scrape together $300.00 in order to buy a small Read More »
The Falcon’s Brother (1942) Stanley Logan, George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph

Gay Lawrence, amateur detective known as The Falcon, learns that his brother Tom Read More »
Chinatown at Midnight (1949) Seymour Friedman, Hurd Hatfield, Jean Willes, Tom Powers

Clifford Ward is a thief working San Francisco’s Chinatown district, and his stolen goods are fenced through an interior-decorators shop ran by Lisa Marcel. Read More »
The Curse of the Wraydons (1946) Victor M. Gover, Bruce Seton, Henry Caine, Pearl Cameron

Based on a “famous” play , Spring-Heeled Jack or The Terror of London by Maurice Sandoz. Read More »
American Empire (1942) William C. McGann, Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, Preston Foster

Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war. Read More »
The Bad Man (1941) Richard Thorpe, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day

Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil’s ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. Read More »
Robbers of the Range (1941) Edward Killy, Tim Holt, Virginia Vale, Ray Whitley

Rancher Jim Drummond refuses to sell his ranch to a land agent named Greely. The latter with Monk and Blackie, henchmen of the railroad purchasing agent Read More »