
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 »
Tag Archives: 1940s
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 »
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 »