A private detective is hired to retrieve a valuable antique coin that was stolen from its owner by her son, who used it to pay off a blackmailer. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
One Sunday Afternoon (1948) Raoul Walsh, Dennis Morgan, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Musical, Romance
This third film version of James Hagan’s stage play One Sunday Afternoon was directed by Raoul Walsh, who helmed the second adaptation (1941’s Strawberry Blonde). Read More »
Flowing Gold (1940) Alfred E. Green, John Garfield, Frances Farmer, Pat O’Brien, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Johnny Blake, dodging the law on a false murder charge, gets work in the oil fields. His boss and friend Hap O’Connor turns on him when Johnny and Hap’s girlfriend Linda fall in love. Read More »
Dangerously They Live (1941) Robert Florey, John Garfield, Nancy Coleman, Raymond Massey, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Dr. Michael Lewis treats Jane, a mysterious woman claiming to be a British secret agent on the run from German spies. Read More »
Lillian Russell (1940) Irving Cummings, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Biography, Drama, Musical
Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore. Read More »
Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949) William Castle, Howard Duff, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
In San Francisco, during the 1940s, US Treasury agents interrupt an illicit exchange between a sailor and a drug dealer. Read More »
Virginia City (1940) Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Action, Drama, History, Romance, Western
During the American Civil War, Captain Kerry Bradford escapes from a notorious confederate prison. Read More »
The Long Voyage Home (1940) John Ford, John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Drama, War
Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. Read More »
Moon Over Burma (1940) Louis King, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Preston Foster, Adventure
The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon. Read More »
Am Abend nach der Oper / In the Evening After the Opera (1945) Arthur Maria Rabenalt, Gusti Huber, Siegfried Breuer, Robert Lindner, Drama, Romance
This totally forgotten film is adapted from a story by Franz Nabl who also provided the basis for Der verzauberte Tag. Read More »