Sherlock Holmes – Prelude to Murder (aka Dressed to Kill) (1946) starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce Holmes: Somehow, the tune… is the key to the mystery. It must be the tune. Otherwise, why use three musical boxes to convey the message? Why not collar boxes, or shoe boxes?
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December 30, 2022 user
Murder mystery
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Gilda (1946), starring Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready Synopsis of Gilda In Gilda, a beguiling femme fatale (Rita Hayworth) gets even with her bitter ex-boyfriend (Glenn Ford) by marrying his boss, a mysterious Buenos Aires casino owner. One of the great film noirs of the Forties.
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December 20, 2022 user
film-noir
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Movie review of Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed. It’s a Wonderful Life is a wonderful film, and a perennial classic at Christmas time. It’s the story of a man named George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) at the end of his rope. He’s...
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December 10, 2021 user
Drama
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Blondie Knows Best (1946) starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Jerome Cowan, Shemp Howard In Blondie Knows Best, Dagwood’s best intentions go wrong. He impersonates J. C. Dithers to save a valuable sale, but then has to keep going a little father …
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July 2, 2021 user
Comedy
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Song lyrics to Things We Did Last Summer (1946), lyrics by Sammy Cahn, with music by Jule Styne The boat rides we would takeThe moonlight on the lakeThe way we danced and hummed our favorite songThe things we did last summer
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August 19, 2020 user
Song Lyrics
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Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946) starring Mickey Rooney, Bonita Granville, Dorothy Ford, Lewis Stone In a bittersweet entry in the series, Love Laughs at Andy Hardy takes the title seriously. Andy returns home from World War II, and hopes to return to college. And, to reignite his...
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June 6, 2020 user
Comedy
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Angel on My Shoulder (1946) starring Paul Muni, Claude Rains, Anne Baxter Synopsis of Angel on My Shoulder In Angel on My Shoulder the Devil agrees to release a recently-murdered gangster back to Earth … if he’ll take over the body of an honest judge and make him...
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March 27, 2019 user
Comedy
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The Dark Corner (1946) starring Lucille Ball, William Bendix, Clifton Webb, Mark Stevens Synopsis of The Dark Corner Some men are drawn to women – some men are drawn to murder. In this captivating story of strange obsession, Kathleen Conley (Lucille Ball) and her boss Brad Galt (Mark...
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February 13, 2019 user
film-noir
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Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) starring Robert Walker, Van Heflin, Paul Langton, Dorothy Patrick A fictionalized biography of composer Jerome Kern, that begins with a short version of his famous Show Boat musical, with much of his life told in flashback, including his partnership with Oscar Hammerstein. It’s...
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January 1, 2018 user
Musical
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Bedlam (1946) written by: The Masked Reviewer After a friend of the portly aristocrat Lord Mortimer (Billy House) dies in an attempted escape from Bedlam. In order to appease the angered aristocrat, Master George Sims (Boris Karloff) throws a party for Lord Mortimer and his friends at the...
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May 21, 2017 user
Horror movies
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