
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother’s house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
I Dood It (1943) Vincente Minnelli, Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell, Richard Ainley, Romance, Comedy, Musical, Thriller

Constance Shaw is a dance star on Broadway, Joseph Rivington Renolds is a keen fan of her. Read More »
Race Street (1948) Edwin L. Marin, George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Nice-guy bookie Dan Gannin plans to quit the racket; he’s opening a new night club with his torch-singing sister as main attraction. Read More »
Yellow Sky (1948) William A. Wellman, Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Crime, Western

A band of bank robbers on the run from a posse flee into the desert. Near death from lack of water they stumble into what appears to be a ghost town Read More »
What a Carry On! (1949) John E. Blakeley, Jimmy Jewel, Ben Warriss, Josef Locke, Comedy

Jewell and Warris join the army and under the watchful, friendly eye of Sergeant Locke somehow manage to get promoted despite causing maximum havoc along the way. Read More »
Night Unto Night (1949) Don Siegel, Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Broderick Crawford, Drama, Romance

A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida’s east coast. Read More »
The Noose Hangs High (1948) Charles Barton, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Joseph Calleia, Comedy

Abbott and Costello are two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers that he sent to pick up $50,000. Read More »
Rise and Shine (1941) Allan Dwan, Jack Oakie, George Murphy, Linda Darnell, Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance, Sport

Stupid football player is kidnapped by gangsters. Lunatics abound: former footballer now dancer, professor interested in magic, gangster who makes horse noises when excited. Read More »
Girl in 313 (1940) Ricardo Cortez, Florence Rice, Kent Taylor, Lionel Atwill, Crime, Drama, Romance

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 »
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 »