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I wanna put him in a mason jar and shake it like some separated peanut butter
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Vincent Price as Maximilian the Great from "The Long Night (1947)"
December 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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only just finished the movie and already have so many thoughts about these two
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Ann Dvorak and Vincent Price as Charlene and Maximilian from "The Long Night (1947)"
December 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Director: Ákos D. Hamza
Release year: 1942

First science fiction film made in Hungary.

#Sirius #Scifi #HungarianFilm
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December 30, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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Last night's #film was the likeable fast-talking crime thriller I Killed That Man (Phil Rosen, US 1941)

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#MonogramStudio #40sFilm #blackandwhitefilm #FortiesCinema
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I Killed That Man (1941)
A condemned inmate's premature death places officials under suspicion.
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December 14, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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Last night's first watch #film was the #BMovie crime comedy caper/farce Fashion Model (William Beaudine, (US 1945)

with Robert Lowery, the charming Marjorie Weaver and Tim Ryan

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#FortiesCinema #blackandwhitefilm #40sFilm
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Fashion Model (1945)
When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.
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August 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Freeview (UK) #film of the day :

David Lean's romantic drama Brief Encounter (1945 83 mins.)
starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson

[BBC2 15.15 & iPlayer for 30 days]

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#40sFilm #FortiesCinema #blackandwhitefilm
Brief Encounter (1945)
Classic romantic drama starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard. A chance meeting in a suburban railway station brings together Laura Jesson, a happil
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September 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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#📽️Film #40sFilm #ClassicFilm Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall, Lucile Watson, Frank Latimore, Elsa Lanchester in THE RAZOR'S EDGE. Directed by Edmund Goulding. 1946
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The Razor's Edge 1946 Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney & Anne Baxter
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January 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Last nights first watch #film was the British 'black widow' crime #thriller Bedelia (Lance Comfort, 1946)
starring Margaret Lockwood & with Ian Hunter and Barry K. Barnes

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#40sFilm #FortiesCinema #blackandwhitefilm #midcenturycinema
Bedelia (1946)
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chan...
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January 9, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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Last nights first watch #film was the excellent #melodrama The Great Lie (US 1941)
Bette Davis, Mary Astor & George Brent all in fine form.
Classily directed by the under appreciated Edmund Goulding.

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Watched on #DVD
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The Great Lie (1941)
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
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June 19, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Last night's #film was Robert Siodmak's dark melodrama Time Out of Mind (US, 1947)
with Phyllis Calvert, Robert Hutton, the remarkable Ella Raines & Eddie Albert

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#MidCenturyCinema #blackandwhitefilm #40sFilm
Time Out of Mind (1947)
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
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July 6, 2024 at 9:41 AM
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Freeview (UK) #film of the day :

Henry Levin's impressive psychological #western The Man from Colorado (1948 94 mins.)
starring Glenn Ford and William Holden.

[Film 4 12.45 & +1]

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#40sFilm #blackandwhitefilm #FortiesCinema
The Man from Colorado (1948)
Psychological western starring Glenn Ford and William Holden. When unstable Civil War veteran Owen Devereaux becomes a judge in Colorado, his marshal,
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December 10, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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Freeview (UK) #film of the day :

Howard Hawks's classic detective drama The Big Sleep (1946 109 mins.)
based on the novel by Raymond Chandler and starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

[BBC 2 14.40 & iPlayer for 30 days]

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#20thCenturyCinema #40sFilm
The Big Sleep (1946)
Howard Hawks's classic detective drama based on the novel by Raymond Chandler, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Tough private eye Philip Ma
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March 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Freeview (UK) #film of the day :

Excellent thriller The Fallen Idol (1948 91 mins.)
based on a short story by Graham Greene, superbly directed (as always) by Carol Reed and starring Ralph Richardson.

[Film 4 13.20 & +1]

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#20thCenturyCinema #40sFilm
The Fallen Idol (1948)
Thriller, based on a short story by Graham Greene, starring Ralph Richardson. The close friendship between a kind-hearted butler and an ambassador's y
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March 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Last night's #film was the revenge #western Coroner Creek (Ray Enright, US 1948)

starring the excellent Randolph Scott and with good work from Marguerite Chapman and George Macready

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#forties #cinema #MidCenturyCinema #40sFilm
Coroner Creek (1948)
A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death.
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November 17, 2023 at 12:32 PM
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Last night's #film was the undercooked #noir Apology For Murder (US 1945)
with Hugh Beaumont and Ann Savage

An unapologetic Double Indemnity knock-off that needed a LOT more work!

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#40sFilm #blackandwhitefilm #MidCenturyCinema
Apology for Murder (1945)
Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit his estate, while pinning the murder on another bus...
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October 11, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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Last nights #film was the dark melodrama The Lady Gambles (Mark Gordon, US 1949)
with an immense performance by Barbara Stanwyck & great support from the always excellent Stephen McNally

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#40sFilm #MidCenturyCinema #blackandwhitefilm #FortiesCinema
The Lady Gambles (1949)
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the…
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August 5, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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Last nights film was the dark melodrama An Act Of Murder (Michael Gordon, US 1948)
with Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Geraldine Brooks and Edmond O'Brien

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#FortiesFilm #40sFilm #blackandwhitefilm #MidCenturyCinema
An Act of Murder (1948)
A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.
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July 30, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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Last nights #film was Zoltan Korda's dark melodrama A Woman’s Vengeance (1948)
with Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy & Cedric Hardwicke

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A Woman's Vengeance (1948)
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
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July 16, 2024 at 10:27 AM
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Last night's #film was the charming Lady on a Train (US, 1945) an unusual mix of comedy and #FilmNoir (with musical numbers!)
starring Deanna Durbin with Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce & The Great Dan Duryea.

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#blackandwhitefilm #40sFilm #MidCenturyCinema
Lady on a Train (1945)
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a…
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July 2, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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Last night's #film was the #western Abilene Town (Edwin L. Marin, US 1946)
with the reliable Randolph Scott and the sensational Ann Dvorak; strong support from Rhonda Fleming and Edgar Buchanan

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Abilene Town (1946)
Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two groups. For a long time, the town had been divided, with the cattlemen and cowboys having one end of town to…
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March 3, 2024 at 10:12 AM