Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Larceny (1948) George Sherman, John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money she’s received to build a memorial to her war-hero husband, but winds up falling in love with her instead. Read More »
A Woman’s Vengeance (1948) Zoltan Korda, Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Drama, Mystery, Film-Noir
Country squire Henry Maurier is patient with his wife Emily, a neurotic invalid, but her brother surprises Henry with his young mistress Doris. Read More »
Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo / Flesh Will Surrender (1947) Alberto Lattuada, Aldo Fabrizi, Roldano Lupi, Yvonne Sanson, Drama
Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk whose life was turned upside down when he met Giulio, a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the over-confident man. Read More »
Gigi (1949) Jacqueline Audry, Gaby Morlay, Jean Tissier, Yvonne de Bray, Comedy, Romance
Gilberte is a sixteen year old girl raised by her aunt and grandmother to be a demimondaine. Read More »
The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk (1940) David Burton, Lloyd Nolan, Jean Rogers, Richard Clarke, Crime, Drama
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. Read More »
Sciuscià / Shoeshine (1946) Vittorio De Sica, Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Annielo Mele, Drama
At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys, the orphan Pasquale and his younger friend Giuseppe, are riding. Read More »
The Killers (1946) Robert Siodmak, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, “the Swede,” who’s expecting them. Read More »
Great Expectations (1946) David Lean, John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife ‘Mrs. Joe’. Read More »
Banshun / Late Spring (1949) Yasujirô Ozu, Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Drama
Noriko is 27 years old and is still living with her father Somiya, a widower. Read More »