Key Largo (1948)
Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon) stars as retired Army Major Frank McCloud, a drifter who has traveled to Key Largo in southern Florida for a new life path and stops on the way...
Category: 1940s
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Foreign Correspondent is a very loose adaptation of actual wartime reporter Vincent Sheean’s memoirs, “Personal History”, produced by Walter Wanger (Stagecoach, Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and directed by Alfred Hitchcock (Jamaica Inn, The Lady Vanishes),...
Gaslight (1944)
Gaslight opens in Victorian-era London, with the death of acclaimed opera diva Alice Alquist, who had been strangled by someone trying to heist her jewels, and who still looms at large. The scene shifts to...
Saboteur (1942)
Robert Cummings (Dial M for Murder, Kings Row) stars as Barry Kane, a worker at a military aircraft production plant who ends up taking the rap mistakenly for the murder of his best friend/coworker...
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Set in 1903, St. Louis, the site of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World’s Fair, Meet Me in St. Louis wraps its tale around several short stories called “5135 Kensington” by author Sally Benson, as originally published...
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Director Alfred Hitchcock (Suspicion, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) may have wanted the then unavailable Joan Fontaine for the role, but Teresa Wright (Somewhere in Time, The Rainmaker) does just fine as young Charlie Newton, a dreamy...
Lifeboat (1944)
One of director Alfred Hitchcock’s (Suspicion, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) more experimental films puts all of the action within the confines of a lifeboat for the duration, becoming what some claim is the smallest set...
Rope (1948)
Hitchcock’s (Suspicion, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) first color film is also one of his most renown. It is one of his most experimental films, as he decides to try to tell this tale from beginning...
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Of all of Hitchcock’s films, Mr. and Mrs. Smith is perhaps the least Hitchcock-like. It’s a pleasant romantic comedy, and a good one, just so long as you aren’t going to criticize it for a lack of...
Under Capricorn (1949)
To many, Under Capricorn ranks as Alfred Hitchcock’s worst release since coming over to the U.S. to make movies, but even Hitch at his worst is pretty damned good. With him at the helm, and Ingrid...