
As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
All My Sons (1948) Irving Reis

All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing. Read More »
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Albert Lewin, George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed

In 1886, in the Victorian London, the corrupt Lord Henry Wotton meets the pure Dorian Gray posing for talented painter Basil Hallward. Read More »
A Pistol Shot (1942) Renato Castellani, Assia Noris, Fosco Giachetti, Antonio Centa

Count Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Read More »
Dangerous Years (1947) Arthur Pierson, Billy Halop, Scotty Beckett, Richard Gaines

In this melodrama, a young juvenile delinquent convinces other teens to join his gang. Read More »
Spellbound (1945) Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov

The head of the Green Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be replaced by Dr. Edwardes, a famous psychiatrist. Read More »
The Trial of Mary Dugan (1941) Norman Z. McLeod

Mary Dugan is a young woman accused of murdering her billionaire lover. Read More »
Powder Town (1942) Rowland V. Lee, Victor McLaglen, Edmond O’Brien, June Havoc

Absent-minded professor Quincey Pennant creates a formula to transmit the impact of explosives over greater distances. Read More »
Follow Me Quietly (1949) Richard Fleischer, William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey

For six months, a strangler has terrorized the city. Calling himself The Judge, he’s a self-appointed destroyer of ‘evil’ who only strikes on rainy nights. Read More »
The Pride of the Yankees (1942) Sam Wood, Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth

Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games Read More »