A private detective is approached by a wealthy entertainment executive to stop a blackmail scheme against him. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Under the Bridges / Unter den Brücken (1945) Helmut Käutner, Hannelore Schroth, Carl Raddatz, Gustav Knuth
“Under the Bridges”, made in the last year of the Third Reich, proves that artistic Read More »
Sweet Rosie O’Grady (1943) Irving Cummings, Betty Grable, Robert Young, Adolphe Menjou
Music-hall star Madeleine Marlowe leaves London engaged to the Duke of Trippingham Read More »
Greenwich Village (1944) Walter Lang, Carmen Miranda, Don Ameche, William Bendix
In 1922, novice composer Kenneth Harvey arrives in New York from Kansas Read More »
George White’s Scandals (1945) Felix E. Feist, Joan Davis, Jack Haley, Phillip Terry
This Broadway revue is all about two love affairs. The love between the comedienne Joan Mason Read More »
The Stars Look Down (1940) Carol Reed, Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Edward Rigby
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent Read More »
Angel on the Amazon (1948) John H. Auer, George Brent, Vera Ralston, Brian Aherne
American Jim Warburton crashes his plane in the Amazon jungle and promptly falls in love with Christine Ridgegway Read More »
The Ghost Train (1941) Walter Forde, Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. Read More »
Mirror / Miroir (1947) Raymond Lamy, Jean Gabin, Antonin Berval, Daniel Gélin
Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac Read More »
Women Are Better Diplomats / Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten (1941) Georg Jacoby, Marika Rökk, Willy Fritsch, Aribert Wäscher
A seductive dancer (Marika Rökk) helps her uncle to fight against the closing of his casino. Read More »