RKO Radio Pictures’s 1945 wartime movie is a strange mix with left-wing director Edward Dmytryk proving his patriotism and right-wing gung-ho star John Wayne, as World War Two US marine Colonel Madden, winning the war […]
Director John Ford’s 1941 Great Depression-era comedy drama film Tobacco Road makes a tasty meal of Erskine Caldwell’s novel of Georgia poor farm folk dispossessed of their land. Charley Grapewin and Elizabeth Patterson hold centre stage […]
The admirable Dorothy Lamour stars again in director Louis King’s jolly, carefully contrived 1940 film vehicle for her as Dea, a beautiful island girl, cast away on the island from when she was a child, discovered […]
Director Richard Wallace’s 1947 movie stars John Wayne as Johnny Munroe, a youngish American railroad engineer taken on in South America to build a mountain railroad tunnel in a dangerous route through the Andes by tycoon Frederick […]
Director John Farrow’s notable 1946 adventure film drama Two Years Before the Mast stars Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Barry Fitzgerald and Howard Da Silva, and based on Richard Henry Dana Jr’s travel book of the same […]
Whispering Smith (1948) is notable as Alan Ladd’s first Western and first colour film, moving him on from the film noir movies such as This Gun for Hire (1942), The Glass Key (1942) and The Blue Dahlia (1946) and on to Shane (1953). Ladd stars in […]
Alan Ladd had his second stay in Britain for director Mark Robson’s 1954 murder-at-sea mystery in which, as Duncan Craig, he becomes first mate on a whaler to find out why Judie Nordhal (Joan Tetzel)’s […]
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