Louisiana is a 1947 American film directed by Phil Karlson. It starred Jimmie Davis and was about his life. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Challenge to Lassie (1949) Richard Thorpe, Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks, Drama, Family
In Edinburgh in 1860, sheep herder Jock Gray finds a Collie puppy on the loose. When she is unclaimed, he takes her as his own and calls her Lassie. Read More »
56 rue Pigalle (1949) Willy Rozier, Jacques Dumesnil, Marie Déa, Aimé Clariond, Drama
Lucien Bonnet, Jean Vigneron’s manservant, blackmails his boss, who is having an affair with Inès de Montalban, married to Ricardo. Read More »
Margin for Error (1943) Otto Preminger, Joan Bennett, Milton Berle, Comedy, Drama, War
It is a toss-up as to who is most displeased when Patrolman Moe Finkelstein is given the duty of guarding the German consulate run by Karl Baumer Read More »
Captain from Castile (1947) Henry King, Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Adventure, Drama, History
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Read More »
G.P.U. (1942) Karl Ritter, Laura Solari, Will Quadflieg, Marina von Ditmar, Drama, Thriller, Action
Olga, a Russian refuge from Bolshevik terror has joined the Soviet secret police, the G.P.U. to find the man who killed her parents. Read More »
It Happened in Flatbush (1942) Ray McCarey, Lloyd Nolan, Carole Landis, Sara Allgood, Comedy, Sport
It Happened in Flatbush is a likable baseball comedy inspired by the 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers’ pennant win. Read More »
Two Years Before the Mast (1946) John Farrow, Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Drama, Adventure
Based on a famous book by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., this grueling saga of shipboard oppression is set in the mid-19th century. Read More »
The Racket Man (1944) D. Ross Lederman, Tom Neal, Hugh Beaumont, Jeanne Bates, Crime, Drama
A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been Read More »
Circumstantial Evidence (1945) John Francis Larkin, Michael O’Shea, Lloyd Nolan, Trudy Marshall, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A young lad has his fine new hatchet confiscated by a grumpy baker. The boy’s hot-headed father tries to get it back Read More »