The western town of Headstone is being besieged by the outlaw Killer Pete and his gang. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Sign of the Ram (1948) John Sturges, Susan Peters, Alexander Knox, Phyllis Thaxter, Drama, Film-Noir
The wheelchair-bound matriarch of an English family uses her handicap to cynically manipulate all those around her. Read More »
King of the Mounties (1942) William Witney, Allan Lane, Gilbert Emery, Russell Hicks, Action, Adventure
The chapter-crunched version of this 196 minutes, 12-episode serial from Republic finds Canada being bombed mercilessly by a mysterious-enemy plane (shaped like a boomerang) called the Falcon Read More »
The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945) Leo McCarey, Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, Drama, Family
Father O’Malley, the unconventional priest from ‘Going My Way’, continues his work for the Catholic Church. Read More »
The Clock (1945) Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann, Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Drama, Romance
Soldier Joe Allen is on a two-day leave in New York, and there he meets Alice. She agrees to show him the sights and they spend the day together. Read More »
Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945) Richard Thorpe, Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker, June Allyson, Comedy, Romance
A bellboy at a swanky New York hotel starts to ignore his girlfriend after meeting a beautiful European princess.
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The Man from Down Under (1943) Robert Z. Leonard, Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes, Richard Carlson, Drama, War
A crusty old Sargent of the Queen’s Australian army in World War I befriends a small orphaned boy and his tiny sister on the night he is to go back to Australia. Read More »
The Exile (1947) Max Ophüls, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maria Montez, Rita Corday, Adventure, Romance
Maria Montez was accorded top billing in this film by contractual agreement, although she is in the picture only long enough to take a bath in a tricky 17th century Read More »
The Big Bonanza (1944) George Archainbaud, Richard Arlen, Robert Livingston, Jane Frazee, Western
Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid brother. Read More »
Landfall (1949) Ken Annakin, Michael Denison, Patricia Plunkett, Edith Sharpe, Drama, War
Rick (Michael Denison) is a costal command pilot patrolling the English Channel for U-Boats. Read More »