Carl Becker, a young attorney becomes a counter espionage agent after an agent friend of his is murdered. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Unseen (1945) Lewis Allen, Joel McCrea, Gail Russell, Herbert Marshall
Governess Elizabeth Howard fears that David, both her widowed employer and the man she loves Read More »
The Spider and the Fly (1949) Robert Hamer, Eric Portman, Guy Rolfe, Nadia Gray
A clever and dedicated French police official, a cleverer master-thief whom he secretly admires Read More »
Contraband (1940) Michael Powell, Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control Read More »
Flight Command (1940) Frank Borzage, Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey, Walter Pidgeon
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. Read More »
West Point Widow (1941) Robert Siodmak, Anne Shirley, Richard Carlson, Richard Denning
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. Read More »
The Night Before the Divorce (1942) Robert Siodmak, Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Joseph Allen
George Nordyke is married to Lynn, the perfect wife, but is unhappy about it Read More »
The Bank Dick (1940) Edward F. Cline, W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel
Egbert Sousé leads an ordinary life but is about to have an extraordinary day. Read More »
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946) Willis Goldbeck, Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Sara Haden
Poor Andy, all he wants to do is get to town and continue to woo his girl and ask her hand in marriage. Read More »
You Can’t Escape Forever (1942) Jo Graham, George Brent, Brenda Marshall, Gene Lockhart
When Laurie goes to the execution of Varney and faints, she does not know that Varney gets a full pardon minutes before he fries. Read More »
Traffic in Crime (1946) Lesley Selander, Kane Richmond, Anne Nagel, Adele Mara
Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire Read More »
Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet (1940) William Dieterle, Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger
Dr. Paul Ehrlich was the German physician who developed the first synthetic antimicrobial drug, 606 or Salvarsan. Read More »
The Phantom Thief (1946) D. Ross Lederman, Chester Morris, Jeff Donnell, Richard Lane
Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. Read More »
The Mark of Cain (1947) Brian Desmond Hurst, Eric Portman, Sally Gray, Patrick Holt
An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one. Read More »
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime (1941) James P. Hogan, Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin
Several days after one of his company’s dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors Read More »