1945 movies

House of Dracula (1945)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Chaney Jr., Lon | Carradine, John | O'Driscoll, Martha | Atwill, Lionel | Stevens, Onslow | Adams, Jane | Stössel, Ludwig | Strange, Glenn | Knaggs, Skelton | Bernard, Joseph E. | Cordova, Fred | Dickinson, Dick | Harrison, Casey | Karloff, Boris
Directors: Kenton, Erle C.
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There are monsters galore in this tale when Count Dracula approaches the renowned Dr. Edelman to see if there might be a medical cure for his vampirism. Soon after, Lamont Cranston, the Wolfman approaches the good doctor who discovers that a brain tumor may be the cause of his problems. Finally, Edelman and Cranston discover the body of Dr. Frankenstein’s monster in caves below the house. While Dr. Edelman deals with the ethical dilemma of whether or not to revive the monster, he realizes that his experimentation with Count Dracula has resulted in he also becoming a vampire. All of this leads to final confrontation where only one of the three monsters will survive.

Open City (1945)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: Italy
Actors: Fabrizi, Aldo | Magnani, Anna | Pagliero, Marcello | Annichiarico, Vito | Bruno, Nando | Feist, Harry | Galletti, Giovanna | Grandjacquet, Francesco | Passarelli, Eduardo | Michi, Maria | Rovere, Carla | Sindici, Carlo | van Hulzen, Joop | Tolnay, Ákos | Pandolfini, Turi
Directors: Rossellini, Roberto
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The story takes place in Rome during World War II. A group of indignanted people, such as a publisher and a priest, decide to fight against the nazis.

And Then There Were None (1945)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
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On a remote and isolated island, ten people - 8 invited guests and two servants - find themselves facing their own deaths. Their unidentified host informs them, via a gramophone record, that as they have all been responsible for someone’s death, they in turn will die before the weekend is out. There is no way for any of them to flee the island, so they set about trying to determine who their hidden host might be and where he might be hiding. One by one, the guests are killed and one of them suggests that the killer is likely among them.

Spellbound (1945)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Peck, Gregory | Bergman, Ingrid | Cheklov, Michael | Carroll, Leo G. | Fleming, Rhonda | Emery, John | Lloyd, Norman | Goodwin, Bill | Geray, Steven | Curtis, Donald | Ford, Wallace | Baker, Art | Toomey, Regis | Harvey, Paul
Directors: Hitchcock, Alfred
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The head of the Green Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be replaced by Dr. Edwards, a famous psychiatrist. Edwards arrives and is immediately attracted to the beautiful but cold Dr. Constance Petersen. However, it soon becomes apparent that Dr. Edwards is in fact a paranoid amnesiac imposter. He goes on the run with Constance who tries to help his condition and solve the mystery of what happened to the real Dr. Edwards.

Anchors Aweigh (1945)

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sinatra, Frank | Grayson, Kathryn | Kelly, Gene | Iturbi, José | Stockwell, Dean | Britton, Pamela | Ragland, Rags | Gilbert, Billy | O'Neill, Henry | Ramírez, Carlos | Kennedy, Edgar | Sutton, Grady | Ames, Leon | McManus, Sharon | Flavin, James
Directors: Sidney, George
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Joe and Clarence, two navy sailors who have a few days leave in Hollywood. All Joe wants to do is to have a good time and meet up with his girl, the unseen Lola. Clarence on the other hand just wants to get a girl. They soon meet a little boy who ran away from home and wants to join the navy. They take him home and soon meets his young beautiful singer-wannabe aunt Susan. Clarence develops a crush on her, so he asks Joe to help him get Susan to like him. Soon Joe gets himself caught in between a promise to Susan to meet a big time music producer, and trying to get Clarence ready for their date. The only problem is, Joe doesn’t know the music producer and he’s string to fall in love with Susan himself. So whats a guy to do?

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sanders, George | Hatfield, Hurd | Reed, Donna | Lansbury, Angela | Lawford, Peter | Gilmore, Lowell | Fraser, Richard | Walton, Douglas | Lowry, Morton | Mander, Miles | Bilbrook, Lydia | Forbes, Mary | Greig, Robert | MacGill, Moyna | Bevan, Billy
Directors: Lewin, Albert
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Innocent young Dorian Gray has his portrait painted by a close friend. Soon after, under the influence of amoral Lord Henry Wotton, he jilts his fiancee, leading to her suicide. This is the start of a life of increasing debauchery, Gray realising that the outward signs of this are apparent only in the portrait. Eventually the picture, secreted in his childhood playroom, becomes almost hideous to behold. But Gray still has one pure love - Gladys, the niece of the original painter.

Royal Scandal, A (1945)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bankhead, Tallulah | Coburn, Charles | Baxter, Anne | Eythe, William | Price, Vincent | Auer, Mischa | Ruman, Sig | Sokoloff, Vladimir | Rasumny, Mikhail | Baratoff, Paul | Beday, Eugene | Brecher, Egon | Carter, Harry | Chaliapin Jr., Feodor | De Linsky, Victor
Directors: Lubitsch, Ernst
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Catherine The Great had been portrayed by Mae West, Elizabeth Bergner, Marlene Dietrich, and Pola Negri. She lived to be 67 years old. Amazing, if we are to believe her amorous ways. Lubitsch was to have directed this, but he became ill and the reins were handed to Preminger, with Ernst looking over his shoulder and making sure that Otto’s customary heavy hand was somewhat lightened. The ancient Biro/Lengyel play “Czarina,” which had been used as the basis for other movies about the Russian queen, was adapted this time by Mayer and Frank, veteran screenwriters who knew what they were doing. To Bankhead’s St. Petersburg castle comes Eythe, a young cavalry officer who has ridden for days to tell her of a coup planned by two generals. Eythe admits that he has plenty of energy left despite the travel, so Bankhead requests that he return later that night for a “private interview.” Eythe is handsome, albeit a bit sappy, but he must have some ability in the lovemaking department, because his rise to the rank of general is rapid. Eythe is soon in love with Baxter, a virginal woman who is a lady in waiting. Bankhead falls hard for Eythe, and, when she learns that he is affianced to Baxter, the young woman is sent away. Eythe is heartbroken but still owes allegiance to his queen, so he helps overcome the plot to dethrone her. Bankhead is so happy at what he’s done, she allows Eythe and Baxter to reunite while she finds new thrills in the arms of Price, the French ambassador. With all of the sleeping around Bankhead does, it’s a wonder any state business ever got done in the years when Catherine was Great. A few laughs, but Bankhead chews up the scenery and the pacing is off a beat. Lubitsch had filmed this as FORBIDDEN PARADISE in 1924.

Woman in Green, The (1945)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Rathbone, Basil | Bruce, Nigel | Brooke, Hillary | Daniell, Henry | Cavanagh, Paul | Boulton, Matthew | Amber, Eve | Worlock, Frederick | Bryson, Tom | Shepherd, Sally | Gordon, Mary | Burton, John | De Becker, Harold | Denison, Leslie | Ellis, Tony
Directors: Neill, Roy William
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Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. The trail leads to a society of hypnotists and a mysterious, glamoruos woman. The fiendish Dr Moriarty, though reported hanged in Montevideo, is belived to be involved.

House of Fear, The (1945)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Rathbone, Basil | Bruce, Nigel | Mather, Aubrey | Hoey, Dennis | Cavanagh, Paul | Herbert, Holmes | Cording, Harry | Shepherd, Sally | Muir, Gavin | Hillier, Florette | Clyde, David | Alexander, Richard | Benge, Wilson | Cavanaugh, Hobart | Craig, Alec
Directors: Neill, Roy William
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In a gloomy mansion in the west of Scotland the seven members of the Good Comrades Club are dining. One of them receives a curious death threat, an envelope containing seven orange pips. He dies the next night in a car crash. At his funeral another member receives an envelope with six pips, and ten days later his body is recovered from the sea. Sherlock Holmes is called in.

Pursuit to Algiers (1945)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Rathbone, Basil | Bruce, Nigel | Riordan, Marjorie | Ivan, Rosalind | Lowry, Morton | Vincent, Leslie | Kosleck, Martin | Evans, Rex | Abbott, John | Hamer, Gerald | Davis, William 'Wee Willie' | Dillon, Tom | Worlock, Frederick | Borg, Sven Hugo | Benge, Wilson
Directors: Neill, Roy William
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Holmes and Watson are recruited in a serpentine fashion to escort the heir to a European throne back to his native country following his father’s assassination. Because the prince has been educated in Great Britain, Holmes persuades him to masquerade as Watson’s nephew Nicolas on a ocean liner bound for Algiers. Unfortunately the ship is filled with red herrings as well as real assassins, and Holmes is challenged to outwit them all and deliver his charge to his destination. Among the suspects are a knife-throwing circus performer, two shadowy archaeologists, a hulking deaf mute, an enigmatic ship’s steward, a chanteuse with a mysterious song case, and a gun-toting British dowager.