
In New York the clumsy Walter Mitty is the publisher of pulp fiction at the Pierce Publishing house owned by Bruce Pierce. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Holiday Affair (1949) Don Hartman, Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey

The Christmas-season romance of a young widow and a sales clerk who (thanks to her) is unemployed. Read More »
Enemy of Women (1944) Alfred Zeisler, Claudia Drake, Wolfgang Zilzer, Donald Woods

Young Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, an unsuccessful playwright, is forced, in order to support himself, to take a position as tutor in the household of Herr Quandt. Read More »
Bury Me Dead (1947) Bernard Vorhaus, Cathy O’Donnell, June Lockhart, Hugh Beaumont

Barbara Carlin attends her own funeral and returns home suspecting that her husband, Rod Carlin Read More »
Lady Scarface (1941) Frank Woodruff, Dennis O’Keefe, Judith Anderson, Frances E. Neal

A Chicago gang led by scar-cheeked Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Read More »
The Affairs of Martha (1942) Jules Dassin, Marsha Hunt, Richard Carlson, Marjorie Main

The town gossips are reporting that a household servant in exclusive Rocky Point is writing an expose of the colony. Read More »
A-Haunting We Will Go (1942) Alfred L. Werker, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dante

The boys are recruited by a gang of thugs to get a coffin containing one of their far from dead colleagues to Dayton to try and get at an inheritance. Read More »
It Happens Every Spring (1949) Lloyd Bacon, Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas

A college professor is working on a long term experiment when a baseball comes through the window destroying all his glassware. Read More »
Criminal Court (1946) Robert Wise, Tom Conway, Martha O’Driscoll, June Clayworth

A lawyer who is planning to run for District Attorney accidentally kills a gangster who owns the nightclub where the attorney’s girlfriend is a singer. Read More »
Wyoming (1947) Joseph Kane, Bill Elliott, Vera Ralston, John Carroll

Charles Alderson and his wife settle in the Wyoming Territory, and form a lasting friendship with Thomas Jefferson “Windy” Gibson. Read More »