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Tag Archives: 1940s
So Dark the Night (1946) Joseph H. Lewis, Steven Geray, Micheline Cheirel, Eugene Borden
A renowned and relentless Paris detective takes his first vacation in eleven years at a small inn in the French countryside. Read More »
Her Kind of Man (1946) Frederick De Cordova, Dane Clark, Janis Paige, Zachary Scott
A nightclub singer is caught between a big-time gangster and a tough Broadway columnist. Read More »
Penny and the Pownall Case (1948) Slim Hand, Ralph Michael, Peggy Evans, Christopher Lee
An artist’s model, with aspirations to be an amateur detective Read More »
Ride ‘Em Cowboy (1942) Arthur Lubin, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Foran
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. Read More »
Champion (1949) Mark Robson, Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell
Midge Kelly, hitchhiking west with lame brother Connie, is hustled unprepared into a pro boxing match. Read More »
Shadows Over Chinatown (1946) Terry O. Morse, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Victor Sen Yung
Chinese detective Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is on his way to San Francisco to take over a murder case when he meets a woman Read More »
Cabin in the Sky (1943) Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley, Ethel Waters, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Lena Horne
Chronic gambler and carouser “Little” Joe Jackson is shot by Domino Johnson at Jim Henry’s gambling club over an outstanding gambling debt. Read More »
Tough Assignment (1949) William Beaudine, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Marjorie Steele, Steve Brodie
Don Reilly, a Los Angeles newspaper reporter in 1949, recently married to Margie Read More »
Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949) John M. Stahl, Mark Stevens, June Haver, S.Z. Sakall
In the early 1900s, song plugger Larry Kelly chances to meet Alfred Breitenbach Read More »