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Tag Archives: 1940s
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 »
Cabin in the Sky (1943) Vincente Minnelli

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 »