Beginning in the past, Two Girls and a Sailor opens up on Jimmy Durante who of course, is an entertainer. He has a cute little scene with a couple of little girls […]
Dreams Come True – Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
To the World, He Was the… – Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
James Cagney has portrayed many a character throughout his career and so when the time came for casting someone to play the legendary Lon Chaney, who better than Cagney. Chaney, dubbed the […]
When Gambles Don’t Pay Off – Macabre (1958)
There is in fact something macabre about this film, coincidentally called Macabre and released in 1958. While it might seem like a horror movie at first glance and it was definitely marketed […]
Not a One Man Army – Screaming Eagles (1956)
Sometimes a person cannot help but have a bad attitude. Maybe it was because kids picked on them in school or they had bad parents or whatever but somewhere, life along the […]
Tempered By War – Away All Boats (1956)
Away All Boats is the story of the Belinda and the men who sail her, a ship fresh off the line with a crew just as new. For Captain Jebediah Hawks, it […]
Men On a Mission – Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
A group of men, all volunteers and all of them pilots or men that work on planes are gathered together for a secret mission by Spencer Tracy. As they get to know […]
On the Run – The Sea Chase (1955)
Finding himself on the run, John Wayne has to take his old steam freighter back home to Germany before war fully breaks out and as he does so, finds himself being chased […]
From Loss to Love – My Reputation (1946)
My Reputation, released in 1946, may not be a war picture per se but it is war adjacent and as such when it did come out, it was shown to the Armed […]
When Life Takes a Turn – Crime of Passion (1957)
Going against one’s nature can either lead to unexpected good things or very foreseeable bad things and in this film, Barbara Stanwyck’s character Kathy does just that to marry the man she […]
When You Know You Know – B.F.’s Daughter (1948)
With Van Heflin and Barbara Stanwyck in the lead, B.F.’s Daughter turns out to be a pleasing drama that sees the two in and out of love with each other, the former […]
The Telltale Mind 