
It’s Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing’s rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
First Yank Into Tokyo (1945) Gordon Douglas, Tom Neal, Barbara Hale, Marc Cramer, Drama, War

An American agent undergoes plastic surgery to make him look Japanese so he can infiltrate Japan and help to free an American POW. Read More »
Stukas (1941) Karl Ritter, Carl Raddatz, Hannes Stelzer, Ernst von Klipstein, Drama, War

This Nazi propaganda film details the exploits of a group of German Luftwaffe pilots flying Stukas–fighter-bombers–in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II. Read More »
The Quiet Duel (1949) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjô, Drama

In 1944, in WWII, Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki cuts his finger with the scalpel during a surgery in a field hospital and is infected by spirochete from his patient Susumu Nakada. Read More »
Hangover Square (1945) John Brahm, Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

George Harvey Bone is a composer in early 20th century London, who is under stress because he is writing a piano concerto. Read More »
Night Editor (1946) Henry Levin, William Gargan, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

“Night Editor” was based on the already existing radio program in which a newspaper editor would recount the ‘inside story’ of some bit newspaper story Read More »
Miranda (1948) Ken Annakin, Glynis Johns, Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, Fantasy, Comedy, Romance

A young married physician out on a fishing holiday ends up being saved by a mermaid, who intends to keep him her prisoner. Read More »
Four Mothers (1941) William Keighley, Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, Eddie Albert, Drama, Romance

Adam Lemp and his four daughters (Ann, Thea, Kay, and Emma) find themselves in financial and emotional crises. Read More »
Kismet (1944) William Dieterle, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, James Craig, Adventure, Fantasy

Hafiz, the jovial King of Beggars, dons new garments and slips into the royal palace to woo his regal “Lady of the Moonlight.” Read More »
The Avenging Rider (1943) Sam Nelson, Tim Holt, Cliff Edwards, Ann Summers, Western

On his way to help his ex-partner, miner Sam Trotter, Brit Marshall is tricked into helping Trotter’s murderers get away with Trotter’s gold bullion. Read More »