Recent Posts Tagged With '1947'

• SCARED TO DEATH

  Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 08:05 in Mystery, bela lugosi, 1947, scared to death, nat pendleton, douglas fowley, gladys blake, george zucco, christy cabanne, roland varno, jane cornell, molly lamont

  SCARED TO DEATH (1947). Director: Christy Cabanne. "My dear Josef, if I allowed myself to be announced, I doubt I would be received anywhere."Well, this movie has something in common with the later Sunset Boulevard, in that it's sort of narrated by a...

• THE UNSUSPECTED

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 08:15 in Mystery, suspense, claude rains, michael curtiz, 1947, constance bennett, hurd hatfield, audrey totter

  THE UNSUSPECTED (1947). Director: Michael Curtiz."I detest scenes not of my own making."Roslyn, the secretary of radio star Victor Grandison, who narrates tales of mystery and the macabre, is found hanging in the study, apparently the victim of a sui...

• UNCLE SILAS

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 08:20 in gothic, 1947, melodrama, jean simmons, sheridan le fanu, charles frank, katina paxinou, derrick de marney, uncle silas

  UNCLE SILAS (1947). Director: Charles Frank.Caroline Ruthyn (Jean Simmons, pictured) finds herself at the mercy of her rather batty Uncle Silas (Derrick De Marney) and his psychotic son after her father dies and she becomes the ward of Silas -- who h...

• DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME

  Posted on Thursday August 27th, 2009 at 08:25 in boris karloff, 1947, john rawlins, crime thriller, ralph byrd, anne gwynne, milton parsons, skelton knaggs, dick tracy meets gruesome, june clayworth

  DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME (1947). Director: John Rawlins.The fourth and last of RKO's Dick Tracy features again stars Ralph Byrd -- who is terrific in the part -- as the intrepid detective, this time involved with a gang who use a paralyzing gas to s...

• FRAMED (1947)

  Posted on Thursday August 20th, 2009 at 08:15 in framed, glenn ford, 1947, melodrama, crime thriller, barry sullivan, janis carter, edgar buchanan

  FRAMED (1947). Director: Richard Wallace.Unemployed mining engineer Mike Lambert (Glenn Ford) encounters a duplicitous female named Paula (Janis Carter), and is unaware -- as we learn almost from the start -- that she hopes to use him in a deadly plo...

• DICK TRACY'S DILEMMA

  Posted on Thursday August 13th, 2009 at 08:10 in 1947, crime drama, jack lambert, kay christopher, john rawlins, ian keith, ralph byrd, dick tracy's dilemma, jimmy conlin

  DICK TRACY'S DILEMMA (1947). Director: John Rawlins.Ralph Byrd takes over -- or rather takes back -- the role of Tracy from Morgan Conway in this, the third RKO Dick Tracy feature film. The villain of the piece is a murderous crook known as "The Claw...