Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (1941) Ray Taylor, Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O’Day, Action, Comedy, Music, Western
Red and his cohorts kill three prospectors and file on their claim. One of the three was Joe Henderson’s brother and Joe goes after the killers. Read More »
Banjo (1947) Richard Fleischer, Sharyn Moffett, Jacqueline White, Walter Reed, Drama, Family
In this sentimental children’s yarn, a little girl is orphaned when her father, a Georgia plantation owner, is trampled by a frightened horse. Read More »
In flagranti (1944) Hans Schweikart, Ferdinand Marian, Margot Hielscher, Oskar Sima, Comedy, Crime
A rookie detective’s first case is to observe an engineer, but she behaves so clumsily in her job, that she’s mistaken for a thief and con artist. Read More »
Ghost of Zorro (1949) Fred C. Brannon, Clayton Moore, Pamela Blake, Roy Barcroft, Action, Adventure, Crime, Western
It’s 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. Read More »
Riso amaro / Bitter Rice (1949) Giuseppe De Santis, Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Drama
Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. Read More »
Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1949) Ford Beebe, Johnny Sheffield, Peggy Ann Garner, Onslow Stevens, Adventure
George Harland and his daughter Patricia are in the African jungle to photograph animals. Read More »
Kilroy Was Here (1947) Phil Karlson, Jackie Cooper, Jackie Coogan, Wanda McKay, Comedy
Returning G. I. John J. Kilroy (Jackie Cooper), whose main ambition is to get a college education, finds himself one-half credit short for college entrance. Read More »
Trigger Fingers (1946) Lambert Hillyer, Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Jennifer Holt, Western
Blacksmith Pinto Peters (Raymond Hatton) calls on his old friend, Sam “Hurricane” Benton (Johnny Mack Brown), to help him clear his son, Jimmy (Riley Hill), of a murder charge. Read More »
Private Snuffy Smith (1942) Edward F. Cline, Bud Duncan, Edgar Kennedy, Sarah Padden, Comedy, Romance, War
Snuffy Smith, moonshining hillbilly, grows tired of dodging revenue agents, headed by Cooper, and decides to take the army up on their offer of free clothes, food and $21.00 a month. Read More »