Tag Archives: 1940s

British filmmaker Carol Reed and American playwright Garson Kanin team up to direct the war documentary The True Glory. Read More »

New York working woman Susan Applegate is desperate to go home to Iowa but doesn’t have the railroad fare so that she disguises herself as a kid to ride half an hour. Read More »

Susan Trexel is a rich socialite, who while vacationing in Europe experiences a spiritual transformation. Read More »

A bank clerk in a small town returns home from a vacation in Indianapolis, and hears a story on the radio about a girl found murdered there. Read More »

Society grand dame Maxine Wood who hosts charity celebrations in her residence is mixed up in a stone theft racket that defrauds insurance businesses. Read More »

The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and also the convicted of war bonds. He gets his escape to the hills where he hides out at a rustic lodge. Read More »

The Big Sleep is the story of a private investigator, named Philip Marlowe, hired by a wealthy general to find out and stop his youngest daughter Read More »

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 »

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 »

Smooth-talker Ronnie Mason earns his living by murdering lonely women for their inheritances. Read More »