This film opens with two small Arizona towns, Spencerville and East Spencerville, separated by a dry gulch and a feud, and governed by a Vigilante Committee. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Vengeance Is Mine (1949) Alan Cullimore, Valentine Dyall, Anne Firth, Richard Goolden
Believing himself to be dying, a man hires an assassin to kill him so he can frame an enemy for the death. Read More »
Child of Divorce (1946) Richard Fleischer, Sharyn Moffett, Regis Toomey, Madge Meredith
An eight-year-old girl is an unwilling and disturbed witness of parental quarrels in her home, and when the parents finally secure a divorce Read More »
Angel and Sinner (1945) Christian-Jaque, Micheline Presle, Berthe Bovy, Louise Conte
This film is an adaptation of two stories by Guy de Maupassant, Tallow Ball and Mademoiselle Fifi. Read More »
The Fighting Seabees (1944) Edward Ludwig, John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O’Keefe
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites Read More »
Men of the Timberland (1941) John Rawlins, Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Linda Hayes
Tim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast quantity Read More »
Mutiny in the Arctic (1941) John Rawlins, Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Anne Nagel
A pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Read More »
Two People (1945) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Georg Rydeberg, Wanda Rothgardt, Gabriel Alw
When the prestigious Dr. Arne Lundell ends the most important work of his life, a colleague from the University of Stockholm Read More »
Over My Dead Body (1942) Malcolm St. Clair, Milton Berle, Mary Beth Hughes, Reginald Denny
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. Read More »
Frisco Sal (1945) George Waggner, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey, Alan Curtis
Sally Warren (Susanna Foster) comes from Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Barbary Coast to find John Warren, her long-lost brother. Read More »
Forbidden Songs (1947) Leonard Buczkowski, Danuta Szaflarska, Janina Ordezanka, Jerzy Duszynski
A Polish musician tells a young soldier about his wartime activity – setting up a street orchestra Read More »
Home, Sweet Homicide (1946) Lloyd Bacon, Peggy Ann Garner, Randolph Scott, Lynn Bari
Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Read More »
Tragic Hunt (1947) Giuseppe De Santis, Vivi Gioi, Andrea Checchi, Carla Del Poggio
Immediately after the war, a truck on which the newlyweds Michele and Giovanna travel Read More »
Under the Sun of Rome (1948) Renato Castellani, Oscar Blando, Liliana Mancini, Francesco Golisano
The film starts with the narrator stating that “this is a true story.” Ciro, a young man living in Rome during WWII Read More »
Bowery to Broadway (1944) Charles Lamont, Maria Montez, Jack Oakie, Susanna Foster
Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway Read More »