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The Crime Doctor’s Gamble (Nov. 27, 1947)

William Castle’s 66-minute mystery The Crime Doctor’s Gamble was the ninth film in the series of programmers from Columbia Pictures. Based on Max Marcin’s radio series Crime Doctor (… more →

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G-Men Never Forget (12 chapters) (Nov. 13, 1947-Jan. 29, 1948)

Adam Lounsbery wrote 1 year ago: Republic serials were always solidly entertaining Saturday-afternoon time wasters for the kiddies, a … more →

Tags: 1947, 1948, December 1947, January 1948, Action & Adventure, Clayton Moore, Fred C. Brannon, ramsay ames, Republic Pictures

The Sea Hound (15 chapters) (Sept. 11-Dec. 18, 1947) — 1 comment

Adam Lounsbery wrote 1 year ago: The Sea Hound, subtitled the “Dare Devil Adventures of Captain Silver,” stars serial sup … more →

Tags: 1947, September 1947, October 1947, December 1947, Columbia Pictures, Serials, Buster Crabbe, Sam Katzman

Killer McCoy (Nov. 30, 1947)

Adam Lounsbery wrote 1 year ago: Nineteen forty-seven was the year Mickey Rooney turned 27, and the star of the Andy Hardy series and … more →

Tags: 1947, Drama, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Ann Blyth, Bob Steele, James Gunn, Brian Donlevy, Roy Rowland, mickey rooney

The Crime Doctor's Gamble (Nov. 27, 1947)

Adam Lounsbery wrote 1 year ago: William Castle’s 66-minute mystery The Crime Doctor’s Gamble was the ninth film in the s … more →

Tags: 1947, Mystery, Columbia Pictures, William Castle, Micheline Cheirel, The Crime Doctor, warner baxter, Marcel Journet, Roger Dann

The Gangster (Nov. 25, 1947) — 1 comment

Adam Lounsbery wrote 1 year ago: I’m no hypocrite. I knew everything I did was low and rotten. I knew what people thought of me … more →

Tags: 1947, film noir, Harry Morgan, Akim Tamiroff, BARRY SULLIVAN, Allied Artists Pictures, Gordon Wiles, belita, King Brothers Productions

Mourning Becomes Electra (Nov. 19, 1947) — 1 comment

Adam Lounsbery wrote 1 year ago: Dudley Nichols’s Mourning Becomes Electra has its staunch defenders, but so does every other a … more →

Tags: 1947, Drama, RKO Radio Pictures, Michael Redgrave, Dudley Nichols, Leo Genn, Kirk Douglas, raymond massey, Rosalind Russell

Out of the Past (Nov. 13, 1947) — 4 comments

Adam Lounsbery wrote 1 year ago: Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past is the greatest film noir ever made, but no one knew it at … more →

Tags: 1947, Robert Mitchum, film noir, RKO Radio Pictures, Jacques Tourneur, Jane Greer, Rhonda Fleming, Kirk Douglas, Virginia Huston

Gentleman's Agreement (Nov. 11, 1947) — 6 comments

Adam Lounsbery wrote 1 year ago: Director Elia Kazan’s fourth film, Gentleman’s Agreement, dominated the 20th Academy Awa … more →

Tags: 1947, Drama, 20th Century Fox, Darryl F. Zanuck, Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, 20th Academy Awards, celeste holm

Body and Soul (Nov. 9, 1947) — 3 comments

Adam Lounsbery wrote 1 year ago: Charlie Davis’s face is a road map. Every scar tells a story, and every story is the same — a … more →

Tags: 1947, film noir, United Artists, Robert Rossen, James Wong Howe, John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, 20th Academy Awards, Enterprise Productions

Monsieur Vincent (Nov. 5, 1947) — 1 comment

Adam Lounsbery wrote 1 year ago: Last Easter, I attended services at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan. The bishop wh … more →

Tags: 1947, Foreign Films, French Cinema, 21st Academy Awards, Pierre Fresnay, Maurice Cloche, L'Alliance Générale de Distribution Cinématographiqu, Aimé Clariond, Jean Debucourt

The Fugitive (Nov. 3, 1947)

Adam Lounsbery wrote 1 year ago: Faith and religiosity are notoriously difficult things to depict on film. It’s easy to go too … more →

Tags: 1947, J. Carrol Naish, RKO Radio Pictures, John Ford, Ward Bond, henry fonda, Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Graham Greene


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