Fritzi Haller is a powerful casino owner in Chuckawalla, Nevada. Her daughter Paula (having quit school) Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
I Married a Witch (1942) René Clair, Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley
Veronica Lake casts a seductive spell as a charmingly vengeful sorceress in this supernatural screwball classic. Read More »
Riders in the Sky (1949) John English, Gene Autry, Champion, Gloria Henry
When asked about the Ghost Riders song he sings, Gene Autry tells this legend: Gene is about to resign Read More »
Beyond Glory (1948) John Farrow, Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, George Macready
Rocky visits Captain Daniels’ widow, they develop feelings, and she urges him to attend West Point Read More »
A Woman’s Vengeance (1948) Zoltan Korda, Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy
Country squire Henry Maurier is patient with his wife Emily, a neurotic invalid, but her brother surprises Henry with his young mistress Doris. Read More »
Weird Woman (1944) Reginald Le Borg, Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Gwynne, Evelyn Ankers
While on a South Seas trip, a professor falls in love and marries an exotic native woman. Read More »
The Crime Doctor’s Courage (1945) George Sherman, Warner Baxter, Hillary Brooke, Jerome Cowan
Dr. Ordway investigates the death of man whose first two wives were murdered. Read More »
The Crime Doctors Warning (1945) William Castle, Warner Baxter, John Litel, Dusty Anderson
The Crime Doctor must prove the innocence of an artist accused of murdering his model during one of his blackout spells. Read More »
D.O.A. (1949) Rudolph Maté, Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler
Small-town accountant Frank Bigelow goes to San Francisco for a week’s fun prior to settling down with fiancée Paula. Read More »
A Bell for Adano (1945) Henry King, Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, William Bendix
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. Read More »