Tag Archives: 1940s
The Impostor (1944) Julien Duvivier, Jean Gabin, Richard Whorf, Allyn Joslyn, Drama, War
Sleepers West (1941) Eugene Forde, Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Crime, Drama
The Ghost Goes Wild (1947) George Blair, James Ellison, Anne Gwynne, Edward Everett Horton, Fantasy, Comedy, Mystery
Monty Crandall is a commercial artist who ridicules a dowager with a caricature of her on a magazine cover and she sues him. Read More »
Crazy Knights / Ghost Crazy (1944) William Beaudine, Billy Gilbert, Shemp Howard, Maxie Rosenbloom, Comedy, Horror, Romance
Three goofy guys (Shemp Howard, Billy Gilbert, Maxie Rosenbloom) run into ghosts, a gorilla and a haunted house. Read More »
Dressed to Kill (1941) Eugene Forde, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Sheila Ryan, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Detective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend Joanne are on their way to be married when a scream from a nearby hotel room draws his attention to a pair of theatrical murders. Read More »
Crazy House (1943) Edward F. Cline, Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Cass Daley, Comedy, Musical
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. Read More »
Blind Spot (1947) Robert Gordon, Chester Morris
A down-and-nearly-out writer makes a drunken visit to the office of his publisher Read More »
Lucky Jordan (1942) Frank Tuttle, Alan Ladd, Helen Walker, Sheldon Leonard, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Lucky Jordan, cynical gambler and racketeer, finds one thing his luck and connections can’t fix: the draft board. Read More »
Nora Inu / Stray Dog (1949) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Read More »