
Fictionalized biography of Amelia Earhart (here called Tonie Carter). First, a flagwaving preface about air warfare in the Pacific Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Dear Murderer (1947) Arthur Crabtree

When successful business man Lee Warren suspects his wife is having an affair, he sets out find her lover, kill him, and make it look like suicide. Read More »
Cloak and Dagger (1946) Fritz Lang, Gary Cooper, Robert Alda, Lilli Palmer

Toward the end of World War II, the allied secret service receives a partial message indicating that the Germans are researching nuclear energy to build atomic bombs. Read More »
Stormy Weather (1943) Andrew L. Stone, Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway

Dancing great Bill ‘Williamson’ sees his face on the cover of Theatre World magazine and reminisces: just back from World War I Read More »
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 »
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 »