A bored automobile industry tycoon assumes a false identity, buys a half interest in a gas station, and plays matchmaker for his daughter. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Myster (1941)
Like the first entry in Columbia’s “Ellery Queen” series, Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. Read More »
The Reckless Moment (1949) Max Ophüls, James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks
In the charming community of Balboa 50 miles from Los Angeles, middle-class housewife Lucia Harper Read More »
Gentleman Jim (1942) Raoul Walsh, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson
Because boxing is a considered an illegal and disreputable enterprise in 1880’s San Francisco Read More »
The Walking Hills (1949) John Sturges, Randolph Scott, Ella Raines, William Bishop
A long-lost gold treasure, believed buried in the sand dunes of the fabulous Walking Hills Read More »
Crack-Up (1946) Irving Reis, Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall
George Steele, art curator at a small museum, has an apparent mental breakdown one night Read More »
Louisiana Story (1948) Robert J. Flaherty, Joseph Boudreaux, Lionel Le Blanc, E. Bienvenu
A young Cajun boy named Alexander Napolean Ulysses Latour spends his time on a Louisiana bayou. Read More »
The Winslow Boy (1948) Anthony Asquith, Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford
In Edwardian England, a thirteen year-old cadet, Ronnie Winslow, is expelled from the naval academy at Osborne for stealing a seven shilling postal order. Read More »
Lady Luck (1946) Edwin L. Marin, Robert Young, Barbara Hale, Frank Morgan
Mary now runs a bookstore in L.A. with her grandfather, whose past gambling excesses have left her hating everything about the pastime. Read More »
Coney Island (1943) Walter Lang, Betty Grable, George Montgomery, Cesar Romero
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend Read More »