“Of Human Bondage” is a 1934 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and is widely regarded by critics as the film that made Bette Davis a star. The screenplay by Lester Cohen is based on the 1915 novel of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham. Sensitive, club-footed artist Philip Carey is an Englishman …
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Nancy Drew… Reporter is a 1939 American film directed by William Clemens and starring Bonita Granville, as Nancy Drew. Nancy Drew, competing in the local newspaper’s amateur reporter contest, clears a girl named Eula Denning of murder charges. — Directed by William Clemens, produced by Bryan Foy, Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, written …
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“Blood on the Sun” (1945) is a film starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. The film is based on a fictional history behind the Tanaka Memorial document. The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for a Black & White (Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields) film in 1945. Nick Condon (James Cagney) is …
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“Dishonored Lady” (1947) is a film starring Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O’Keefe, John Loder, William Lundigan, and Natalie Schafer, directed by Robert Stevenson, and released by United Artists. The film is based on the play Dishonored Lady (1930) by Edward Sheldon and Margaret Ayer Barnes. Madeleine Damien is the fashion editor of a slick Manhattan magazine …
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“The St. Louis Bank Robbery” (also called “The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery”, the film title in the opening credits) is a 1959 heist film shot in black and white. The noir film stars Steve McQueen as a college dropout hired to be the getaway driver in a bank robbery. The film is based on …
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Dick Barton’s (Don Stannard) plans for a relaxing seaside holiday with his friends are thwarted when they stumble upon a sinister Nazi plot to unleash a deadly chemical virus and bring the nation to its knees. Will Dick, Snowey and friends be able to save the day? Directed by Alfred J. Goulding with cinematography by …
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River policemen go undercover as husband and wife to expose a smuggling ring. Their enquiries lead them to the most notorious part of town and the night-club with a reputation to match. There they gain the confidence of the owner and skilfully match the evidence with the crime but before they can inform their superiors …
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“So’s Your Aunt Emma!” is a 1942 American film directed by Jean Yarbrough. The film is also known as “Meet the Mob”. — Directed by Jean Yarbrough, Produced by Lindsley Parsons (producer) and Barney A. Sarecky (associate producer), written by George Bricker (writer), Edmond Kelso (writer) and Harry Hervey (story “Aunt Emma Paints the Town”), …
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“The Way Ahead” is a British Second World War drama released in 1944. It stars David Niven and Stanley Holloway and follows a group of civilians who are conscripted into the British Army to fight in North Africa. In the U.S., an edited version was released as “The Immortal Battalion”. The film was written by …
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