Danny, a K-9 Corps hero from World War II returns from service and his young owner sets out to rehabilitate him. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Lady at Midnight (1948) Sam Newfield, Richard Denning, Frances Rafferty, Lora Lee Michel, Mystery, Drama
A young couple struggles to raise their adopted daughter, but a mysterious murder reveals the child’s unknown fortune and a greedy lawyer who is out to steal it. Read More »
Hold That Woman! (1940) Sam Newfield, James Dunn, Frances Gifford, George Douglas, Comedy, Crime, Romance
A skip tracer–someone who collects late payments from people who’ve purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don’t pay–repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who’s skipped payments. Read More »
The Miracle Kid (1941) William Beaudine, Tom Neal, Carol Hughes, Vickie Lester
A third-rate boxer who loses most of his fights suddenly finds himself knocking out almost every one of his opponents. Read More »
Bowery Bombshell (1946) Phil Karlson, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car Read More »
The Canterville Ghost (1944) Jules Dassin, Norman Z. McLeod, Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O’Brien, Comedy, Fantasy
In the 1600s, cowardly Sir Simon of Canterville flees a duel and seeks solace in the family castle. Read More »
Blonde Comet (1941) William Beaudine, Virginia Vale, Robert Kent, Barney Oldfield, Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Beverly Blake, the ‘Blonde Comet,” and the daughter of a tire-manufacturer, gets behind the wheel of a race-car, and is soon tearing up the tracks and winning races in Italy Read More »
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) Irving Rapper, Fredric March, Alexis Smith, Donald Crisp, Adventure, Biography, Drama
He was a riverboat pilot, newspaper reporter, penniless prospector, would-be entrepreneur, loving family man, world traveler, pomposity burster and raconteur. Read More »
So Goes My Love (1946) Frank Ryan, Myrna Loy, Don Ameche, Rhys Williams, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jane Budden, a country girl goes to the big city, determined to find and marry a wealthy man. Instead, she meets and marries Hiram Maxim, a struggling inventor. Read More »
The Shanghai Gesture (1941) Josef von Sternberg, Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance
A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement in Shanghai, enters a gambling house owned by “Mother” Gin Sling, a dragon-lady who worked herself up from poverty to buy the casino. Read More »