Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader Julian Karswell. Read More »
Tag Archives: Jacques Tourneur
Doctors Don’t Tell (1941) Jacques Tourneur, John Beal, Florence Rice, Edward Norris
Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics. Read More »
Experiment Perilous (1944) Jacques Tourneur, Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas
In 1903, Dr. Bailey meets a very strange woman on a train, then hears that she has died under mysterious circumstances. Read More »
Wichita (1955) Jacques Tourneur, Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. Read More »
Canyon Passage (1946) Jacques Tourneur, Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward
In 1856, backwoods businessman Logan Stuart escorts Lucy Overmire Read More »
Giant of Marathon (1959) Jacques Tourneur, Bruno Vailati, Steve Reeves, Mylène Demongeot, Sergio Fantoni
This classical peplum tells a fictitious story set in 490 BC, the time of the Medic Wars during which Persian armies sweep the Ancient world. Read More »
Easy Living (1949) Jacques Tourneur, Victor Mature, Lizabeth Scott, Lucille Ball
Pete Wilson is on top. He is the highest paid professional football player in the league. Read More »
Great Day in the Morning (1956) Jacques Tourneur, Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, Ruth Roman
After a card game Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Read More »
Appointment in Honduras (1953) Jacques Tourneur, Glenn Ford, Ann Sheridan, Zachary Scott
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett Read More »
Nightfall (1956) Jacques Tourneur, Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft, Brian Keith, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
There is money missing from a bank job, an attractive model, an insurance investigator, and two extremely dangerous thugs. Read More »
Way of a Gaucho (1952) Jacques Tourneur, Rory Calhoun, Gene Tierney, Richard Boone, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Set in the Argentina of about 1875 in which a customary punishment for killing was a sentence to army service. Read More »
Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939) Jacques Tourneur, Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Henry Hull, Crime, Mystery, Drama
Famed New York detective Nick Carter arrives incognito at a California airplane factory at the behest of owner Hiram Streeter. Read More »
Cat People (1942) Jacques Tourneur, Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Kent Smith, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Serbian national Irena Dubrovna, a fashion sketch artist, has recently arrived in New York for work. The first person who she makes a personal connection with there is marine engineer Oliver Reed. Read More »
Out of the Past (1947) Jacques Tourneur, Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller, Drama
Jeff Bailey, small-town gas pumper, has his mysterious past catch up with him one day when he’s ordered to meet with gambler Whit Sterling. En route to the meeting, he tells girlfriend Ann his story. Flashback: Once, Jeff was a private eye hired by Sterling to find his mistress Kathie who shot Whit and absconded with $40,000. He traces her to Acapulco…where the delectable Kathie makes Jeff forget all about Sterling… Back in the present, Whit’s new job for Jeff is clearly a trap, but Jeff’s precautions only leave him more tightly enmeshed…
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