1940's

The Ghost Train (1941) is a spirited British mystery-comedy that adapts Arnold Ridley’s immensely popular 1923 stage play into a cinematic experience tailor-made for wartime audiences.

Review of Will Hay's last feature film "My Learned Friend".

Review of the final pre war film from Will Hay. "Where's That Fire".

Review of the 1949 British thriller directed by Carol Reed and starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten and Alida Valli.

Review of the 1948 Western starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda and Shirley Temple.

Directed by Irving Reis and penned by future novelist and television magnate Sidney Sheldon, the film is brisk, amusing, and as cleverly constructed as a classic 1940s farce.

Review of the film adaptation of Ernest Hemmingway's novel "To Have and Have Not". Starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

Review of the Cary Grant screwball comedy "His Girl Friday".

Yellow Sky (1948) is a Western with an edge, crafted in the post-war period when Hollywood’s frontier sagas began to grow darker and more psychologically complex.

Review of the classic crime romance film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall

Review of the 1949 comedy Musical "On the Town". Starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Betty Garrett.

Review of the James Cagney crime drama "White Heat".

Review of the first Road to movie "Road to Singapore". Starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope

A review of the second "Road to Movies", starring Bing Crosby and Bob hope.

Review of the adaptation of an Ernest Hemingway short story—it’s a defining piece of film noir, a poetic, fatalistic puzzle wrapped in hard shadows and even harder choices.

Review of the Alfred Hitchcock classic "Notorious". Starring Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant and Claude Rains.

A review of the Alfred Hitchcock classic thriller "Suspicion". Starring Joan Fontaine and Cary Grant.

My Favourite Wife is one of the most quintessential examples of the screwball comedy genre — a film that juggles marital misadventures, romantic reversals, mistaken identities, and slapstick absurdity with sparkling charm.

Review of the Western The Treasure of the Sierra Madre starry Humphrey Bogart.

Review of a quintessential romantic comedy that manages to be both a sparkling social satire and a surprisingly sincere exploration of vulnerability, forgiveness, and self-knowledge.