
A police agent infiltrates a gang of jewel thieves and on the way to finding who the evildoers are, falls in love with a thief. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Ghost Catchers (1944) Edward F. Cline, Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Gloria Jean

Colonel Breckinridge Martshall (Walter Catlett), a self-appointed southern colonel, brings his two daughters Read More »
The Fountainhead (1949) King Vidor, Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Drama, Romance

Individualistic and idealistic architect Howard Roark is expelled from college because his designs fail to fit with existing architectural thinking. Read More »
A Song is Born (1948) Howard Hawks, Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Comedy, Musical

Gangster’s moll Honey Swanson goes into hiding when her boyfriend is under investigation by the police. Read More »
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948) Norman Foster, Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Bill Saunders, disturbed ex-soldier, kills a man in a postwar London pub brawl. Read More »
Lydia (1941) Julien Duvivier, Merle Oberon, Joseph Cotten, Edna May Oliver, Drama, Romance

Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy old woman who has never married, is invited by an old beau, Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick Read More »
I bambini ci guardano / The Children Are Watching Us (1944) Vittorio De Sica, Emilio Cigoli, Luciano De Ambrosis, Isa Pola, Drama

The film follows a four-year old boy named Prico as he becomes the subject of emotional folly by his fluctuant parents and inattentive relatives. Read More »
A Letter to Three Wives (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Drama, Romance, Comedy

Lora May Hollingsway, who grew up next to the wrong side of the tracks, married her boss who thinks she is just a gold digger. Read More »
Johnny Belinda (1948) Jean Negulesco, Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, Drama

Dr. Robert Richardson, a dedicated young general practitioner, seeks to establish himself in an isolated fishing village on Cape Breton Island off the Nova Scotia coast. Read More »
He Walked By Night (1948) Alfred L. Werker, Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

In the Post-World War II, in Los Angeles, a criminal shots and kills a police officer in the middle of the night. Read More »