Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Seventh Victim, The (1943)
- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell…
- One of the finest of producer Val Lewton’s low–budget RKO horror films, here investing a tale of satanists at work in NYCs Greenwich Village…
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten
- Teenager Teresa Wright is thrilled when relative Joseph Cotten comes to stay, then less so, gradually realising Uncle Charlie may be a psychopathic…
Silver Fleet, The (1943)
- Dir. Vernon Sewell
Feat. Ralph Richardson, Esmond Knight, Googie Withers…
- A rousing WW2 maritime drama in which a Dutch shipping port owner decides to swindle the Nazis by agreeing to provide them with his submarines for…
Son of Dracula (1943)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton…
- The toothsome Count (not the son, despite the title), here played by Lon Chaney Jnr, sinks fangs into a selection of Southern belles and their…
Song of Bernadette, The (1943)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Jennifer Jones, Vincent Price, Charles Bickford…
- Religious melodrama set in 19th century rural France, where Jones controversially has visions of the Virgin Mary. Over–lavish (and long), this…
Stormy Weather (1943)
- Dir. Andrew L. Stone
Feat. Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway…
- An on–off romance between a dancer and a popular songstress provides a suitable excuse for a fantastic retrospective of the great…
We Dive at Dawn (1943)
- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. John Mills, Eric Portman, Niall MacGinnis
- Sturdy WWII actioner has a British sub sent out to sink a heavily–armed Nazi battleship with the help of three German sailors, but getting into…
WWII - The John Huston Documents (Let There Be Light; The Battle of San Pietro) (1943-1947)
- Dir. John Huston
- Two legendary war documentaries from John Huston (THE MALTESE FALCON) who participated in WWII as a combat filmmaker yet whose films are the…
Across the Pacific (1942)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor
- Bogie and director Huston reunite with other MALTESE FALCON leads for a similarly toned WW2 spy adventure set on the eve of Pearl Harbour. Huston was…
Arabian Nights (1942)
- Dir. John Rawlins
Feat. Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu…
- Lavish sets and costumes distinguish this story of two brothers competing for the throne of Turkey and the hand of the fiery dancing girl played by…