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Tag Archives: June Havoc
Mother Didn’t Tell Me (1950) Claude Binyon, Dorothy McGuire, William Lundigan, June Havoc
A woman learns how to deal with the difficulties of being a doctor’s wife and an interfering mother in law. Read More »
Brewster’s Millions (1945) Allan Dwan, Dennis O’Keefe, Helen Walker, June Havoc
Monty Brewster is a penniless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million Read More »
Powder Town (1942) Rowland V. Lee, Victor McLaglen, Edmond O’Brien, June Havoc
Absent-minded professor Quincey Pennant creates a formula to transmit the impact of explosives over greater distances. Read More »
Sing Your Worries Away (1942) A. Edward Sutherland, Bert Lahr, June Havoc, Buddy Ebsen, Comedy, Musical
This bundle for humor as well as the musical figures has Luke Brown being drugged from the gangster operators of this swank Boathouse Inn; most especially Roxie a hot pickpocket. Read More »
Once a Thief (1950) W. Lee Wilder, Cesar Romero, June Havoc, Marie McDonald, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress. Read More »
The Story of Molly X (1949) Crane Wilbur, June Havoc, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Molly’s husband Rick was a gang leader somewhere in the middle west. When he’s shot, the tough woman moves to S.F. with a couple of the gang to start anew. Read More »
Chicago Deadline (1949) Lewis Allen, Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, June Havoc, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
On Chicago’s South Side reporter Ed Adams finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Read More »
The Iron Curtain (1948) William A. Wellman, Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc, Biography, Crime, History
Soviet soldier turned bureaucrat Igor Gouzenko is assigned to his first overseas posting in 1943 to Ottawa, Canada, as a cipher clerk for the military attaché, their offices in a secret wing of the Soviet embassy. Igor is not to tell anyone what he does for a living, he given a cover story which he is to recite even when questioned by his own people. He and his wife Anna Gouzenko are supposed to be cordial to their Canadian neighbors and associates, but not fraternize or befriend them, as they are still considered the enemy, despite both countries being on the same side in the war. Igor follows his instructions to a T, but it is more difficult for Anna, who does not have the distraction of work during the day, and who can see that their neighbors are not their enemies but good people much like themselves. Over the next few years, Igor sees that what is happening around him and the work in which he is involved will not result in a world in which he wants to raise his newborn son, …
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