
Gene and Frog head down to Mexico, hot on the trail of a group of swindlers who convince townspeople to invest in movies to be filmed on location in their town, and then skip out without making the films. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Locket (1946) John Brahm, Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, Drama, Film-Noir

Lovely Nancy seems like the ideal bride to fiancée John Willis… until, just before the ceremony, Willis is approached by Harry Blair, claiming to be Nancy’s former husband. Read More »
Danger Signal (1945) Robert Florey, Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Richard Erdman, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Smooth-talker Ronnie Mason earns his living by murdering lonely women for their inheritances. Read More »
Tension (1949) John Berry, Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller

A mousy drugstore manager turns killer after his conniving wife leaves him for another man. Read More »
The Miracle of the Bells (1948) Irving Pichel, Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli, Frank Sinatra, Drama

Granting her final request, a Hollywood press agent brings the dead body of an actress, who died after making her first and only film, back to her hometown for burial. Read More »
His Girl Friday (1940) Howard Hawks, Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Walter Burns, editor of a major Chicago newspaper, is about to lose his ace reporter and former wife, Hildy Johnson, to insurance salesman Bruce Baldwin, but not without a fight! Read More »
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948) H.C. Potter, Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Comedy, Romance

Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night Read More »
Strange Alibi (1941) D. Ross Lederman, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Perry, Jonathan Hale, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A gambler comes into town to testify before the grand jury. He is killed by the mob before he can testify. Read More »
Dakota (1945) Joseph Kane, John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Walter Brennan, Western

In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra “Sandy” Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Read More »
The Upturned Glass (1947) Lawrence Huntington, James Mason, Rosamund John, Pamela Mason, Crime, Drama

A prominent neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how, after the affair was over Read More »