Tag Archives: 1940s cinema

The harsh conditions of a frosty windswept Canadian wilderness are more than just a setting in Raoul Walsh’s Northern Pursuit (1943). Instead, this landscape that serves to be a point made between Europe and North America for all the wrong ...

Born in Bukovina—a location familiar to Dracula fans—in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Otto Preminger is one of several prominent European filmmakers forced to flee Nazism and emigrate to Hollywood, which he helped to reshape over the years with his daring and ...

I run to death, and death meets me as fast, And all my pleasures are like yesterday; I dare not move my dim eyes any way, Despair behind, and death before doth cast Such terror, and my feebled flesh doth ...

This week marks the 75th anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s slow burning, small town tale Shadow of a Doubt (1943). Often noted as the director’s personal favorite of all his films, it came at a time in his career when his ...

In the first part of my examination of Gothic cinema in the ‘40s, I focused on romantic melodramas and suspense films — such as Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, and Secret Beyond the Door — but this loose subgenre only makes up ...