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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Rebecca (1940)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders - A masterful gothic romance about a nobleman's second wife who becomes haunted by the image of his beloved first. Hitchcock's first American film was…
Another Thin Man (1939)- Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Otto Kruger… - Nick and Nora, with newborn baby in tow, spend a weekend on Long Island, sleuthing out a shady character whose death threats lead to murder. Adapted…
Blind Alley (1939)- Dir. Charles Vidor
Feat. Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy - A gangster escapes from prison and takes a psychiatrist hostage in this home–invasion film noir.
Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection, The (1939-1946)- Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
- Complete collection of all 14 SHERLOCK HOLMES films starring Basil Rathbone as the iconic detective and Nigel Bruce as his loyal sidekick Dr Watson.…
Nancy Drew...Reporter (1939)- Dir. William Clemens
Feat. Bonita Granville - One of the very first screen adaptations of Edward Stratemeyer’s series of "Nancy Drew" mystery stories, Bonita Granville stars as the youthful…
Roaring Twenties, The (1939)- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane… - Seminal gangster drama, paired screen–tough Cagney with a then lesser–known Bogart. Becoming buddies during WWI, they later enter and…
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