Documentary-style prologue follows training of O.S.S. agents for WWII work behind enemy lines. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Secret Beyond the Door (1947) Fritz Lang, Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
In this Freudian version of the Bluebeard tale, a young, trust-funded New Yorker goes to Mexico on vacation before marrying an old friend whom she considers a safe choice for a husband. Read More »
They Won’t Believe Me (1947) Irving Pichel, Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
On trial for murder, Larry Ballantyne regurgitates an unbelievable story. He recounts how he philanders to other women while his rich loving wife Gretta tries to keep him in line. Read More »
The Strange Mr. Gregory (1945) Phil Rosen, Edmund Lowe, Jean Rogers, Donald Douglas, Mystery, Drama
Famed magician Mr. Gregory is visited back stage one night by an amateur magician and his wife. Read More »
Lady in the Dark (1944) Mitchell Leisen, Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Warner Baxter, Drama, Musical, Romance
Ginger Rogers, “Allure” magazines editor-in-chief, suffers from headaches and continuos daydreams and undergoes psychoanalysis to determine why. Read More »
The Blue Dahlia (1946) George Marshall, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When Johnny comes home from the navy he finds his wife Helen kissing her substitute boyfriend Eddie, the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. Read More »
Les anges du péché / Angels of Sin (1943) Robert Bresson, Renée Faure, Jany Holt, Sylvie, Drama
Beware of Pity (1946) Maurice Elvey, Lilli Palmer, Albert Lieven, Cedric Hardwicke, Drama, Romance
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) Alfred Hitchcock, Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond, Comedy, Romance
Below the Deadline (1946) William Beaudine, Warren Douglas, Ramsay Ames, Jan Wiley, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A veteran, Joe Hilton (Warren Douglas), returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton (George Meeker), a gangster, has been killed. Read More »