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Tag: 1940s

Film Review Retrospective

THE THIRD MAN (1949)

A pulp novelist travels to shadowy, post-war Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend...

by Conall McManus 2nd September 20242nd September 2024
Film Review Retrospective

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944)

A Brooklyn writer risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot, then things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts are serial killers.

by Conall McManus 30th August 202431st August 2024
Film Review Retrospective

THE WAY AHEAD (1944)

A group of British Army recruits during World War II are gradually shaped into soldiers...

by Barnaby Page 16th June 202416th June 2024
Film Review Retrospective

GOING MY WAY (1944)

When young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of the church's newest member.

by Conall McManus 30th April 202430th April 2024
Film Review Retrospective

LIFEBOAT (1944)

Several survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in WWII find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank them.

by Conall McManus 26th January 202426th January 2024
Film Review Physical Media

Four Film Noir Classics Vol. 3 (1946-1958)

Jealousy, greed, revenge and deceit once again run wild in another anthology of 1940s and 1950s noir...

by Barnaby Page 6th September 20237th September 2023
Film Review Physical Media

Creeping Horror (1933-1946)

Four Hollywood B Movie horrors from the 1930s and 1940s on Eureka Entertainment Blu-ray...

by Barnaby Page 1st May 202330th April 2023
Film Review Physical Media

Four Film Noir Classics Vol. 2 (1944-1955)

Four films from Universal explore different aspects of crime...

by Barnaby Page 30th March 202331st August 2023
Film Review Physical Media

SARABAND FOR DEAD LOVERS (1948)

Forced into a joyless marriage with the future King George I of Great Britain, Sophia Dorothea falls in love with another man.

by Barnaby Page 19th March 202319th March 2023
Film Review Retrospective

THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)

In 1920s Mexico, three men set out to find gold in the mountains.

by Barnaby Page 1st March 20231st March 2023
Film Review Retrospective

BRIGHTON ROCK (1948)

After murdering a journalist, a young gangster in 1930s England discovers a potentially fatal flaw in his alibi...

by Barnaby Page 11th January 202311th January 2023
Film Review Physical Media

THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940)

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

by Barnaby Page 30th November 202230th November 2022
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