Subgenre Sampler
Saboteur (1942)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane - Robert Cummings dodges shady conspirators and skeptical patriots as the wrong man thought to be responsible for some anti–American sabotage.…
Secret Weapon, The (1942)- Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill… - Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce play the definitive Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, in this updated (to the 40s) version of the original Conan Doyle…
Went the Day Well? (1942)
- Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti
Feat. Leslie Banks, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr - British pluck and courage is put to the test in this Graham Greene story, where a cosy English village is infiltrated during WWII by a truckload of…
Man Hunt (1941)- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders… - A Fritz Lang–directed thriller set in Europe just prior to World War II – the first of the German exile's four anti–Nazi films, and…
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)- Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Donna Reed… - Yet another relaxing weekend for sweethearts Nick and Nora turns into a head–scratcher, as the crime–stopping couple divert from a day at…
Suspicion (1941)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine - One of Hitch's first American films uses the artificial charms of Cary Grant to strangely sinister effect, as a manipulative playboy whom wife Joan…
Swamp Water (1941)- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter… - An interesting melodrama, dank with the regional atmosphere of the Florida Everglades, about the problems undergone by a youthful fur trapper…
Foreign Correspondent (1940)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Joel McCrea, Laraine Day - On the eve of WWII, journalist Joel McCrea gets involved in European espionage, some classic Hitchcock set–pieces (esp. the Dutch windmill…
Gaslight (1940)- Dir. Thorold Dickinson
Feat. Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell… - This potently atmospheric "Victorian" thriller boasts a suitably wired Anton Walbrook as a repressed patriarch who torments his wife in an effort to…
Invisible Man Returns, The (1940)- Dir. Joe May
Feat. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey - A man falsely sentenced to death for murdering his brother – the original Invisible Man, takes a drug enabling him to vanish from his cell in…
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