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National Velvet (1944)
Elizabeth Taylor became a big star by playing a 14-year-old girl who wins a horse in a raffle and decides to train him for Britain's Grand National Steeplechase in "National Velvet." Director Clarence Brown ("The Yearling" 1946) ensured outstanding production values with a script by Helen [..]
Laura (1944)
Gene Tierney was at the height of her career in the suspenseful film noir "Laura." Director Otto Preminger ("Fallen Angel" 1945) ensured good production values and wild atmospherics in this story of a police detective investigating the murder of a beautiful advertising executive. [..]
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Spencer Tracy heads an all-star cast in "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo," the story of America's first response to Japan's Pearl Harbor bombing four months earlier in December, 1941. Director Mervyn LeRoy ("Madam Curie" 1943) ensured outstanding production values from an excellent screenplay by Dalton Trumbo. [..]
The Fighting Seabees (1944)
The drama surrounding the creation of the U. S. Navy's Seabees in World War II is the subject of "The Fighting Seabees." Though not completely factual, this Republic Pictures product if highly entertaining especially with the presence of stars John Wayne and Susan Hayward. [..]
Double Indemnity (1944)
"Double Indemnity" is a film noir drama about a woman and her insurance salesman who plot to kill her husband for the insurance money. Things seem to go well until a suspicious claims manager begins to look into the situation. Director Billy Wilder ("The [..]
Gaslight (1944)
Charles Boyer plays a man deliberately trying to drive his wife Ingrid Bergman crazy in order to get control of her money and property in "Gaslight." Director George Cukor ("The Philadelphia Story" 1940) and his team of screenwriters put together a dandy of a thriller [..]
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Edward G. Robinson stars as a mild-mannered professor who becomes obsessed the picture of a woman in a storefront window in "The Woman in the Window." He soon meets her, adeptly played by Joan Bennett. She involves the good professor in an unbelievable [..]
They Came to Cordura (1959)
"They Came to Cordura" is a western drama about a U. S. Army officer assigned to award medals to certain officers even as he escorts them across the desert to the rail station at Cordura. He is also accompanied by a wealthy female landowner accused of treason. The [..]
Pal Joey (1957)
"Pal Joey" is a musical comedy film about a singer who wants to open his own nightclub and becomes involved in a love triangle in the process. The drama-comedy proceeds from there, well put together by director George Sidney ("Bye Bye Birdie" 1963) and screenwriter Dorothy Kingsley. They [..]
The Pajama Game (1957)
"The Pajama Game" is a musical romantic-comedy centered around workers in a factory which produces pajamas and some romantic activities. Directors George Abbott and Stanley Donen kept the film faithful to the 1954 stage play (by Richard Bissel and Abbott, who also penned the screenplay) and [..]