Archive for the ‘1949’ Category

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

The Adventures of Icha...

Disney brings animated versions of 2 literary works to the screen here. The first is 'The Adventures of Mr. Toad', based on the characters from Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows'. The second is based on Washinton Irving's masterpiece 'The Headless...

December 30, 2009
Third Man, The

Third Man, The

An American pulp writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna only to find that the friend who waited for him is killed under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him in his friend's involvement in the black market, with the multinational police,...

June 4, 2009
Queen of Spades, The

Queen of Spades, The

An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.

February 10, 2009
Reign of Terror aka Black Book, The

Reign of Terror aka Bl...

The plot starts in France in the year 1794. Robespierre is sowing panic among his opponents with the only reason to take over the power of the state.

December 17, 2008
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

Abbott and Costello Me...

Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).

November 14, 2008
Sands of Iwo Jima

Sands of Iwo Jima

John Marion Stryker is the ultimate Marine, a tough rifle squad leader who in 1943 is assigned a squad of new recruits saddled with three veterans and an old enemy of Stryker's from previous duties in the Far East. One recruit in particlar is a source...

July 10, 2008