
The city of Pola is being evacuated after the peace conference of 1947 decided to assign the sovereignty to Tito’s Jugoslavia. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Whistling in the Dark (1941) S. Sylvan Simon, Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford

The operators of ‘Silver Haven’, a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money Read More »
Doctors Don’t Tell (1941) Jacques Tourneur, John Beal, Florence Rice, Edward Norris

Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics. Read More »
The Letter (1940) William Wyler, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson

The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense. Read More »
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

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 »