Suspicion (1941)
Suspicion is classic early Hollywood Hitchcock, nicely conceived and solidly performed, but there’s a major flaw that keeps this from becoming one of his greats. No ending would be satisfying. Loosely based on Francis Iles’...
Category: 1940s
Casablanca (1942)
Casablanca is set In the middle of WWII in Casablanca, a part of unoccupied France, where an American former freedom fighter named Rick (Bogart) runs a popular nightclub. This club is frequented by people who’ve...
Spellbound (1945)
An amnesiac (Peck) assumes the identity of a missing man named Dr. Edwards who was about to become the head of a psychiatric institution. He is soon discovered by a fellow female doctor (Bergman)...
Double Indemnity (1944)
Is an introduction really necessary for one of the greatest noir films ever created? Even after the plot has been hashed and rehashed by countless other films in the last 60+ years, Double Indemnity is still...
Rebecca (1940)
A shy and timid girl (Fontaine) is whisked away by a rich man named Maxim de Winter (Olivier), who is still recovering from the death of his much beloved wife, Rebecca. The two get...
Citizen Kane (1941)
The last word uttered by media magnate and multimillionaire tycoon, Charles Foster Kane (Welles, Touch of Evil), was “rosebud”. During preparations for a newsreel story on Kane’s life, the producers determine that they need to...