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Tag Archives: 1940s
The Hidden Hand (1942) Benjamin Stoloff, Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop, Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Everybody seems to have had a good time making the overripe melodrama The Hidden Hand, especially cadaverous Milton Parsons as insane-asylum escapee John Channing. Read More »
Virginia (1941) Edward H. Griffith, Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden, Drama, Romance

A New York chorus girl (Madeleine Carroll) comes home to claim her family plantation and must choose between two men (Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden), one rich, one not. Read More »
The Secret Heart (1946) Robert Z. Leonard, Claudette Colbert, Walter Pidgeon, June Allyson, Drama, Romance

Brillant pianist Larry Addams allows his frustrated ambitions to ruin his life and commits suicide, leaving his wife, Lee, and two small children Read More »
Remember the Day (1941) Henry King, Claudette Colbert, John Payne, Shepperd Strudwick

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost. Read More »
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) John Rawlins, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

When a Nazi saboteur jeeringly predicts to the nation new depredations, via their radio ‘Voice of Terror’ Read More »
Ball of Fire (1941) Howard Hawks, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Comedy, Romance

Sexy, wisecracking nightclub singer Sugarpuss O’Shea is a hot tomato who needs to be kept on ice Read More »
Portrait of Maria (1944) Emilio Fernández, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Alberto Galán, Romance, Drama

In Xochimilco 1909, María Candelaria and Lorenzo Rafael long for getting married but the odds are against them. Read More »
The Gay Caballero (1940) Otto Brower, Cesar Romero, Sheila Ryan, Robert Sterling, Western

The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Read More »
Tell It to the Judge (1949) Norman Foster, Rosalind Russell, Robert Cummings, Gig Young, Comedy, Romance

Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a Federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a ‘Good-Government’ group who think her divorce makes her unfit for the job. Read More »