1941-1950

The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.Read More »

Tough dance hall girl working for the local villain falls for a cowboy trying to clean up the town.

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Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is indeed in the Texan town, intent on winning the affections of a beautiful chanteuse named Jeanne Starr. When the lovely lady meets and falls in love with the charismatic Hardin, the stakes for both men become higher.Read More »

A murderer on the run from the police is given shelter by a lonely lady, but her help might not be as selfless as it seems.Read More »

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Sweet little comical romance starring Heinz Rühmann and (smoking hot) Hertha Feiler, this time as newlyweds. Rühmann’s lack of ambition motivates his wife to make a step with fatal consequences. Within one night, they loose their entire financial basis and at the end of the film they even get divorced!Read More »

The initial entry in the Pine-Thomas series based on the “Big Town” radio series finds Steve Wilson as a newly-hired managing editor brought on board to liven up “The Illustrated Press” newspaper. He runs into problems with two of the paper’s star reporters, Lorelei Kilbourne and Pete Ryan, when his aggressive demands that they employ a yellow journalism type of reporting to build circulation, and they both resign to work for another newspaper. Wilson begins to realize that while his type of journalism does build circulation, it has also brought ruin and disgrace to some innocent victims. Lorelei and Pete are brought back by Wilson with his promise that “The Illustrated Press” will become a crusader against evil.Read More »

This adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel ‘Farewell, My Lovely’, renamed for the American market to prevent filmgoers mistaking it for a musical (for which Powell was already famous) has private eye Philip Marlowe hired by Moose Malloy, a petty crook just out of prison after a seven year stretch, to look for his former girlfriend, Velma, who has not been seen for the last six years. The case is tougher than Marlowe expected as his initially promising enquiries lead to a complex web of deceit involving bribery, perjury and theft, and where no one’s motivation is obvious, least of all Marlowe’s.Read More »

Documentary on the making of “fotoromanzi”, popular comic strips using live action photgraphs instead of drawings. Early morning in an Italian town. Magazines are delivered to a kiosk. People buy the magazines which depict love stories and romances in cartoon styles using photographs. Men and women from all walks of life are shown reading the magazines. We are introduced to four people who go to a basement studio and there pose for photographs for the magazines. The photos are developed and various props and dialogues are painted in. The actors read the finished produce and are seen returning to their everyday lives. One of the fotoromanzi stars, Sergio Raimondi, is seen being idolised by the women in a tenement building.Read More »

Paris, La Belle Epoque, at the end of the XIXth Century: Cavalier, a second-rate actor, discovers a gorgeous talented girl who performs on stage. He wants to be her Pygmalion and he begins to teach her acting. It’s not long before the babe realizes she is much more gifted than her teacher, a not-so-handsome man who has fallen in love with her. Besides, both met the count of Ligny, a buck who makes a fool of the Belle’s mate and begins to seduce her.Read More »

An obsessed cop tracks an elusive serial killer who strangles his victims on rainy nights.Read More »