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Tag Archives: Joan Bennett
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)
The old British musical-hall ditty “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” provides the title for this lightweight Ronald Colman vehicle. Read More »
Highway Dragnet (1954) Nathan Juran, Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Mrs. Cummings, a free-lance magazine photographer and a recent widow following her husband committed suicide Read More »
Green Hell (1940) James Whale, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Bennett, John Howard, Adventure, Romance
A group of adventurers head deep into a South American jungle in search of ancient Incan treasure. Read More »
Margin for Error (1943) Otto Preminger, Joan Bennett, Milton Berle, Comedy, Drama, War
It is a toss-up as to who is most displeased when Patrolman Moe Finkelstein is given the duty of guarding the German consulate run by Karl Baumer Read More »
The Woman in the Window (1944) Fritz Lang
Gotham College professor Wanley and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to the men’s club. Read More »
The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932) William K. Howard, Joan Bennett, Donald Cook, Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher, Crime, Drama
The Man I Married (1940) Irving Pichel, Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Lloyd Nolan, Drama
Anti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi, trying to get their son to America. Read More »
The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942) Richard Wallace, Joan Bennett, Franchot Tone, Allyn Joslyn, Comedy, Romance, War
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Read More »
Fathers Little Dividend (1951) Vincente Minnelli, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Comedy, Romance
In this sequel to Father of the Bride (1950), newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby Read More »
Secret Beyond the Door (1947) Fritz Lang, Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
In this Freudian version of the Bluebeard tale, a young, trust-funded New Yorker goes to Mexico on vacation before marrying an old friend whom she considers a safe choice for a husband. Read More »
Me and My Gal (1932) Raoul Walsh, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Marion Burns, Drama, Comedy, Romance
Young New York cop Dan falls in love with waterfront waitress Helen. Helen’s sister Kate falls for gangster Duke. Dan must do in Duke.
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The Macomber Affair (1947) Zoltan Korda, Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston, Adventure
Robert Wilson leads safaris on the Kenyan savanna. On this occasion, he takes Mr. and Mrs. Macomber out to hunt buffalo. Read More »
Arizona to Broadway (1933) James Tinling, James Dunn, Joan Bennett, Herbert Mundin, Comedy, Crime, Romance
In the small town of Larrup, Arizona, Smiley, a con-artist traveling with cohorts Kingfish, Morris and Ambrose, persuades Lynn Martin Read More »
Man Hunt / Chasse à l’Homme (1941) Fritz Lang, Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, Drama, Thriller, War
On July 29, 1939, renowned British big game hunter Captain Alan Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) slips through the forest undetected near the Berghof, Adolf Hitler’s residence near Berchtesgaden. Getting the dictator in his telescopic sight, he pulls the trigger on his unloaded rifle and gives a wave. He ponders a moment, then loads a live round, but is discovered at the last second by a guard, and the shot goes wild…
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