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Tag Archives: 1940s
Adventures in Silverado (1948) Phil Karlson, William Bishop, Gloria Henry, Edgar Buchanan

Author Robert Louis Stevenson takes a trip to Napa Valley, California Read More »
Eyes of the Underworld (1942) Roy William Neill, Richard Dix, Wendy Barrie, Lon Chaney Jr.

Richard Dix stars as police chief Richard Barry, whose present respectable veneer obscures the fact that he once served a prison sentence. Read More »
The Balloon Goes Up (1942) Redd Davis, Ethel Revnell, Ronald Shiner, Donald Peers

The Balloon Goes Up is a British amalgam of music hall vulgarities and radio one-liners. Read More »
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Alfred Hitchcock, Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey

Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) visits his relatives in Santa Rosa. Read More »
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) St. John Legh Clowes, Jack La Rue, Hugh McDermott, Linden Travers

John Blandish is worth $100 million. His heiress daughter is soon to be wed to Foster Harvey, who believes she’s a cold, unfeeling woman, despite loving her. Read More »
Gilda (1946) Charles Vidor, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready

Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister Ballin Mundson, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. Read More »
Cry of the Werewolf (1944) Henry Levin, Nina Foch, Stephen Crane, Osa Massen

A young woman raised by gypsies hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to protect. Read More »
All the Kings Men (1949) Robert Rossen, Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru

Jack Burden is a newspaper reporter who first hears of Willie Stark when his editor sends him to Kanoma County to cover the man. Read More »
Cluny Brown (1946) Ernst Lubitsch, Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford

Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate. Read More »