The 1944 war drama film The Hour before the Dawn stars Franchot Tone as a British conscientious objector and Veronica Lake as young Austrian woman he marries, who turns out to be a German agent. Director […]
The 1939 film The Magnificent Fraud stars Akim Tamiroff as an actor hired by a con man (Lloyd Nolan) to impersonate the assassinated president of a Latin American country. Director Robert Florey’s 1939 Paramount Pictures […]
The class-conscious 1953 film Those People Next Door is a story of Brits raising their family in the shadow of the Blitz, and stars Jack Warner, Charles Victor and Marjorie Rhodes Director John Harlow’s 1953 class-conscious British black […]
The 1940 comedy film The Great Profile stars hard-drinking John Barrymore, who gamely sends himself up as a drunken actor whose follies endanger the show he is in. Director Walter Lang’s 1940 American black and white […]
‘RAW and VIOLENT’ The 1958 black and white crime thriller film Never Love a Stranger is based on the 1948 bestseller by Harold Robbins, and stars John Drew Barrymore, Lita Milan, Robert Bray, and Steve […]
‘A DESIRABLE WOMAN… more hazardous than the raging sea!’ The 1955 British drama film Passage Home is based on a novel by Richard Armstrong, and stars Peter Finch, Anthony Steel and Diane Cilento. Director Roy […]
Warner Bros’ vastly expensive, pioneering 1928 dawn of sound American part-talkie epic disaster film Noah’s Ark stars Dolores Costello and George O’Brien. Tragically, the filming was a real-life disaster. Director Michael Curtiz’s vastly expensive, pioneering 1928 dawn of […]