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Classic Films from the 1940's


To Have and Have Not (1944)
Review of the film adaptation of Ernest Hemmingway's novel "To Have and Have Not". Starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

Soames Inscker
5 min read


His Girl Friday (1940)
Review of the Cary Grant screwball comedy "His Girl Friday".

Soames Inscker
4 min read


Yellow Sky (1948)
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.

Soames Inscker
4 min read


Dark Passage (1947)
Review of the classic crime romance film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall

Soames Inscker
4 min read


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

Soames Inscker
4 min read


White Heat (1949)
Review of the James Cagney crime drama "White Heat".

Soames Inscker
4 min read


Road to Singapore (1940)
Review of the first Road to movie "Road to Singapore". Starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope

Soames Inscker
4 min read


Road To Zanzibar (1941)
A review of the second "Road to Movies", starring Bing Crosby and Bob hope.

Soames Inscker
4 min read


The Killers (1946)
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.

Soames Inscker
5 min read


Notorious (1946)
Review of the Alfred Hitchcock classic "Notorious". Starring Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant and Claude Rains.

Soames Inscker
5 min read


Suspicion (1941)
A review of the Alfred Hitchcock classic thriller "Suspicion". Starring Joan Fontaine and Cary Grant.

Soames Inscker
5 min read


My Favourite Wife (1940)
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.

Soames Inscker
4 min read


The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Review of the Western The Treasure of the Sierra Madre starry Humphrey Bogart.

Soames Inscker
4 min read


The Philadelphia Story (1940)
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.

Soames Inscker
4 min read


The Bells of St Mary's (1945)
The Bells of St. Mary’s is a sequel in spirit — and direct continuation — to Going My Way (1944), a surprise hit that won the Academy Award for Best Picture and turned Bing Crosby’s easy going Father Chuck O’Malley into a cultural icon.

Soames Inscker
4 min read


Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Review of the rousing musical biography of the legendary entertainer George M. Cohan.

Soames Inscker
4 min read


All Through The Night (1942)
Review of the 1940's entertaining hybrid — part gangster caper, part anti-Nazi propaganda thriller, and part screwball comedy.

Soames Inscker
4 min read


Rope (1948)
Review of the 1940's Hitchcock classic crime drama "Rope".

Soames Inscker
5 min read


Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Review of the Frank Capra madcap crime comedy "Arsenic and Old Lace". Starring Cary Grant.

Soames Inscker
5 min read


Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Review of the classic Abbott and Costello comedy horror "Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein".

Soames Inscker
4 min read
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