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Without Reservations (May 13, 1946)
Mervyn LeRoy’s Without Reservations is the kind of old-fashioned romantic comedy that frequently has adjectives like “sparkling” and “breezy” attached to it. It’s also the last film in which John Wayne...
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Code of the West (Feb. 20, 1947)
Code of the West, a programmer from RKO Radio Pictures, has the same pedigree as Sunset Pass (1946). Both films are based on novels by Zane Grey, the screenplays for both films were written by Norman...
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Desperate (May 9, 1947)
Anthony Mann’s Desperate stars Steve Brodie (not to be confused with the other Steve Brodie) and Audrey Long (the future Mrs. Leslie Charteris) as a young married couple on the run from sinister thugs...
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Sleep, My Love (Feb. 18, 1948)
Sleep, My Love is a slick, classy thriller from the slickest, classiest director of all time, Douglas Sirk. Granted, his greatest work was a few years ahead of him, but even when he was making...
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Ruthless (April 16, 1948)
He wasn’t a man … he was a way of life. The last line of Edgar G. Ulmer’s Ruthless could have been the capper to an epic tale of striving and loss, but after almost one hour and 45 minutes of...
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Raw Deal (May 26, 1948)
Anthony Mann’s T-Men (1947) and Raw Deal (1948) together form one of the most powerful one-two punches in the history or film noir. Both films star Dennis O’Keefe, both feature musical scores by Paul...
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Pitfall (Aug. 24, 1948)
One man’s domestic bliss is another man’s prison. John Forbes (Dick Powell) has what some men only dream of — a home; a steady job with the Olympic Mutual Insurance Company; an attractive, intelligent,...
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