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The Southerner (April 30, 1945)
French director Jean Renoir directed this adaptation of George Sessions Perry’s novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand, which won the first National Book Award in 1941. (The novel was adapted by screenwriter...
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Strange Confession (Oct. 5, 1945)
Apparently populist rage against pharmaceutical giants is nothing new. In Strange Confession, the fifth of six “Inner Sanctum Mysteries” produced by Universal Pictures and released from 1943 to 1945,...
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The Beast With Five Fingers (Dec. 25, 1946)
Robert Florey’s horror flick The Beast With Five Fingers begins with the following words: “This is the story of what happened — or seemed to happen — in the small Italian village of San Stefano —...
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Humoresque (Dec. 25, 1946)
In a recent NY Times interview with David O. Russell, the director of the Oscar-nominated biopic The Fighter (2010), he compared his star, Mark Wahlberg, to John Garfield. Russell said that — like...
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The Fugitive (Nov. 3, 1947)
Faith and religiosity are notoriously difficult things to depict on film. It’s easy to go too far in one direction — witness for instance, the brutal, mind-numbing literalism of Mel Gibson’s The...
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Joan of Arc (Nov. 11, 1948)
Joan of Arc (1948) Directed by Victor Fleming Sierra Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures Joan of Arc was always a force to be reckoned with. In life, she had heavenly visions, led the French army to several...
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House of Frankenstein (Dec. 1, 1944)
In an effort to more deeply penetrate the pop culture of the 1940s and 1950s, I’ve been listening to radio shows and watching old movies pretty much in the order they were released. I’ve been doing...
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