The Killers
Film Noir is as celebrated and fetishized as it is misunderstood. The films considered Film Noir were only so labeled well after the fact in order to create a canon… Read more »
Tag: 1940s
Broadway Melody Of 1940
Broadway Melody Of 1940 (1940) was the fourth and final film in MGM’s loosely connected franchise of backstage musical comedies. Production of the film was overseen by Jack Cummings, who… Read more »
Star In The Night
Star In The Night (1945) is a two-reel short film produced by Warner Bros. and written by Saul Elkins. The film retells the New Testament story of the Nativity in… Read more »
My Favorite Wife
After having been shipwrecked for seven years Ellen Arden’s (Irene Dunne) husband Nick Arden (Gary Grant) has had her declared legally dead so that he can marry Miss Bianca Bates… Read more »
Sleep, My Love
Wealthy Manhattan socialite Alison Courtland (Claudette Colbert) wakes on a train with no recollection of how she got there. This isn’t the first such episode for Mrs. Courtland, or so… Read more »
Pursued
Released the same year as Robert Mitchum gave his career defining performance in Jacques Tourneur’s quintessential film noir masterpiece Out Of The Past (1947), Pursued (1947) sees Mitchum appearing in… Read more »
The Reckless Moment
The Reckless Moment (1949) opens with Lucia Harper (Joan Bennett) going to warn Ted Darby (Shepperd Strudwick) to stay away from her seventeen year old daughter Bea (Geraldine Brooks). Darby… Read more »
Leave Her To Heaven
Leave Her To Heaven (1945) is not unlike The Strange Woman (1946) and Desert Fury (1947); a “weepie” or woman’s picture told with traditionally film noir conventions. The enduring popularity… Read more »
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Cary Grant and Myrna Loy re-teamed for Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), a family comedy-drama about the anxieties of the post-war economic boom. Directing is none other than… Read more »
Weird Woman
Weird Woman (1944) is the second and most highly regarded film in Universal Pictures’ Inner Sanctum Mystery series (based on a radio program of the same name). The films in… Read more »
