1945 movies



Royal Scandal, A (1945)

Tuesday, December 16th, 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 look into a series of strange and clearly unconnected murders, and the cessation of a reasonable suspect. The carry along behind leads to a academy of hypnotists and a perplexing, glamoruos bird. The cruel Dr Moriarty, even so reported hanged in Montevideo, is belived to be elaborate.

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 dull mansion in the west of Scotland the seven members of the All Right Comrades Ally are dining. Equal of them receives a outr� death intimidation, an envelope containing seven orange pips. He dies the next nightfall in a auto crash. At his inhumation another colleague receives an envelope with six pips, and ten days later his substance is recovered from the perplexed. 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 cunning fashion to shepherd the legatee to a European throne following to his indigene country following his originator’s assassination. Because the prince has been discerning in Capacious Britain, Holmes persuades him to mimic as Watson’s nephew Nicolas on a bounding main liner required for Algiers. Unfortunately the move is filled with red herrings as well enough as verified assassins, and Holmes is challenged to outwit them all and read his custody to his journey’s end. Among the suspects are a wound-throwing circus Thespian, two phantasmal archaeologists, a oafish deaf mum, an enigmatic take off’s steward, a chanteuse with a incomprehensible song cause, and a gun-toting British dowager.