Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940) Sidney Salkow, Warren William, Frances Robinson, Bruce Bennett
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman Read More »
Nora Prentiss (1947) Vincent Sherman, Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett
Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Read More »
The Testimony / Il testimone (1946) Pietro Germi, Roldano Lupi, Marina Berti, Ernesto Almirante
A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant will be crucial. Read More »
Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941) H. Bruce Humberstone, Cesar Romero, Virginia Gilmore, Charlotte Greenwood
Cesar Romero plays an outwardly tough prohibition-era gangster who in reality wouldn’t hurt a fly. Read More »
Kiss the Bride Goodbye (1945) Paul L. Stein, Patricia Medina, Jimmy Hanley, Marie Lohr
Joan’s (Patricia Medina) mother wants her to marry her pompous boss although she loves a soldier (Jimmy Handley). Read More »
Convicted Woman (1940) Nick Grinde, Rochelle Hudson, Frieda Inescort, June Lang
Jobless Betty Andrews, although innocent, is convicted of a department store theft and Read More »
Singapore Woman (1941) Jean Negulesco, Brenda Marshall, David Bruce, Virginia Field
A woman who believes she’s cursed, takes refuge on a rubber plantation. Read More »
Assignment in Brittany (1943) Jack Conway, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Susan Peters, Margaret Wycherly
A French captain (Jean-Pierre Aumont) poses as a Nazi to pinpoint a U-boat base off the coast of France Read More »
The Woman in the Typhoon Area / Taifuken no onna (1948) Hideo Ôba, Sô Yamamura, Setsuko Hara, Takashi Kanda
A gang of 4 pirates, down on their luck, head for a weather-tracking station on an outlying island Read More »