My Favourite films of the 40s

A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

A married woman and a drifter fall in love and then plot to murder her husband.

Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.

A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.

In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.

Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

A war veteran turned truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce marketer.

The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?

When a posse captures three men suspected of killing a local farmer, they become strongly divided over whether or not to lynch the men.

A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.

During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.

After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.

On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.

An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.

The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

Hit men arrive in a small New Jersey town to kill an unresisting victim, and insurance investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.

A mortally-wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber to try to find out where he buried a fortune in cash.

The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.

Two men try to convince themselves they've committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party after strangling a former classmate to death.

A Los Angeles insurance representative is seduced by an alluring housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

An armored truck driver and his ex-wife conspire with a gang to have his own truck robbed on the route.