Preston Foster is a private detective who gets mixed up with a somewhat ditzy Ann Rutherford. It seems she thinks her uncle was murdered. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Destination Unknown (1942) Ray Taylor, William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Sam Levene, Drama, Romance, War
In Shanghai, Elena Varnoff attempts to learn the secret of the priceless-and-hidden St. Petersburg from Karl Renner, an Axiz agent working with the Japanese. Read More »
If I Had My Way (1940) David Butler, Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean, Charles Winninger, Comedy, Musical
Bridge construction worker Fred Johnson is raising his twelve year old daughter after his wife’s death, but when he is killed suddenly in an accident, responsibility falls to his two friends, Buzz Blackwell and Axel Swenson. Read More »
The Boy from Stalingrad (1943) Sidney Salkow, Tay Garnett, Bobby Samarzich, Conrad Binyon, Mary Lou Harrington, Drama, War
Russian children out in the fields gathering grain find themselves in the path of the invading German army making its way to Stalingrad, a target city of their onslaught. Read More »
Song of the Islands (1942) Walter Lang, Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jack Oakie, Comedy, Musical, Romance
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O’Brien. Read More »
The Great Impersonation (1942) John Rawlins, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers, Aubrey Mather, Thriller
An unconscious man is found in a boat which drifts to the landing of an isolated African outpost where Baron von Ragenstein, an enemy agent, recognizes the man as his exact double, Sir Edward Dominey, with whom von Ragenstein went to school. Read More »
Big Town After Dark (1947) William C. Thomas, Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When Lorelei Kilbourne leaves her job as the police reporter for the Illustrated Press, Managing Editor Steve Wilson employs the publisher’s niece, Susan Peabody, to replace her. Read More »
The Lady and the Monster (1944) George Sherman, Vera Ralston, Erich von Stroheim, Richard Arlen, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A millionaire’s brain is preserved after his death, and telepathically begins to take control of those around him. Read More »
Vredens dag / Day of Wrath (1943) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam, Drama
In a 17th-century Danish village, an old woman is accused of witchcraft. In the shadow of her flight, capture, confession, and burning at the stake, the young wife of the town’s aging pastor falls in love with the pastor’s son. Read More »
The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946) Arthur Lubin, Gale Sondergaard, Brenda Joyce, Kirby Grant, Drama, Film-Noir, Horror, Thriller
Jean takes the job of caretaker/companion (before the word took on a completely alternate-life style meaning) to blind woman Zenobia. Read More »