A body, considered to be of a criminal attorney, sends the authorities searching for the killer. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Bad Lord Byron (1949) David MacDonald, Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, Joan Greenwood, Drama
Seriously ill to a military campaign in Greece, Lord Byron fantasies of being judged, upon his passing, as a soldier and poet as a seducer and libertine. Read More »
The Overlanders (1946) Harry Watt, Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell, Adventure, Western
It Is the Beginning of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are becoming close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a “scorched earth” policy. Read More »
The Conspirators (1944) Jean Negulesco, Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Vincent Van Der Lyn, a Dutch freedom fighter in WWII, is made to neutral Lisbon to escape the Nazis. Read More »
Whiplash (1948) Lewis Seiler, Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
A struggling artist becomes a nyc prizefighter in an effort to win the attachment of this ring promoter’s night bar husband. Read More »
Cinderella Jones (1946) Busby Berkeley, Joan Leslie, Robert Alda, Julie Bishop, Comedy, Musical
Judy Jones, sings with a group and works in an aircraft plant. She participate in a”missing heirs” radio program and can be found to be a heiress to a fortune. Read More »
Nine Girls (1944) Leigh Jason, Ann Harding, Evelyn Keyes, Jinx Falkenburg, Comedy, Mystery
Among those members of a sorority is found killed. Even though the authorities are called in to investigate Read More »
The Woman Who Dared (1944) Jean Grémillon, Madeleine Renaud, Charles Vanel, Jean Debucourt, Drama
Within this uplifting romantic play, the spouse of a mechanic and former fighter pilot falls in love with the notion of flying herself. Read More »
The True Glory (1945) Garson Kanin, Carol Reed, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Fallon, Robert Harris, Documentary, War
British filmmaker Carol Reed and American playwright Garson Kanin team up to direct the war documentary The True Glory. Read More »
The Major and the Minor (1942) Billy Wilder, Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Comedy, Romance
New York working woman Susan Applegate is desperate to go home to Iowa but doesn’t have the railroad fare so that she disguises herself as a kid to ride half an hour. Read More »