When a Nazi saboteur jeeringly predicts to the nation new depredations, via their radio ‘Voice of Terror’ Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Ball of Fire (1941) Howard Hawks, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Comedy, Romance
Sexy, wisecracking nightclub singer Sugarpuss O’Shea is a hot tomato who needs to be kept on ice Read More »
City Without Men (1943) Sidney Salkow, Linda Darnell, Edgar Buchanan, Michael Duane, Crime, Drama
A young woman’s husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. Read More »
Portrait of Maria (1944) Emilio Fernández, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Alberto Galán, Romance, Drama
In Xochimilco 1909, María Candelaria and Lorenzo Rafael long for getting married but the odds are against them. Read More »
The Gay Caballero (1940) Otto Brower, Cesar Romero, Sheila Ryan, Robert Sterling, Western
The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Read More »
Tell It to the Judge (1949) Norman Foster, Rosalind Russell, Robert Cummings, Gig Young, Comedy, Romance
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a Federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a ‘Good-Government’ group who think her divorce makes her unfit for the job. Read More »
Tulsa (1949) Stuart Heisler, Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendáriz, Action, Drama, Romance, Western
It’s Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing’s rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Read More »
First Yank Into Tokyo (1945) Gordon Douglas, Tom Neal, Barbara Hale, Marc Cramer, Drama, War
An American agent undergoes plastic surgery to make him look Japanese so he can infiltrate Japan and help to free an American POW. Read More »
Stukas (1941) Karl Ritter, Carl Raddatz, Hannes Stelzer, Ernst von Klipstein, Drama, War
This Nazi propaganda film details the exploits of a group of German Luftwaffe pilots flying Stukas–fighter-bombers–in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II. Read More »
Shadow of a Woman (1946) Joseph Santley, Helmut Dantine, Andrea King, William Prince, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A young bride’s marital bliss is replaced by shades of suspicion when she suspects that her husband Read More »