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Tag Archives: 1940s
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925 Read More »
The Eagle with Two Heads / L’aigle à deux têtes (1948) Jean Cocteau, Edwige Feuillère, Silvia Monfort, Jean Marais
Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. Read More »
The Gangster (1947) Gordon Wiles, Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring
Chubunka is the self-made head of the rackets in the sleazy boardwalk community of Neptune City Read More »
Calcutta (1947) John Farrow, Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix
Neale Gordon and Pedro Lake, commercial pilots who fly the hump between Chungking and Calcutta learn Read More »
Daisy Kenyon (1947) Otto Preminger, Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda
Commercial artist Daisy Kenyon is involved with married lawyer Dan O’Mara Read More »
Roseanna McCoy (1949) Irving Reis, Nicholas Ray, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Charles Bickford
The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn’s Roseanna McCoy. Read More »
Strange Fate / Étrange destin (1946) Louis Cuny, Renée Saint-Cyr, Aimé Clariond, Henri Vidal
Patrica is the wife of Alain de Saulieu, a handsome engineer. Read More »
Quartet (1948) Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Ian Fleming
Four of Somerset Maugham’s short stories are brought to the screen with each introduced by the author himself. Read More »
Post Office Investigator (1949) George Blair, Audrey Long, Warren Douglas, Jeff Donnell
A young postman becomes involved in the theft of rare stamps featuring inverted images of the Statue of Liberty. Read More »