Twilight on the Rio Grande (April 1, 1947)
Frank McDonald’s Twilight on the Rio Grande features Gene Autry and his co-stars being put through their B-movie paces south of the border. Crime melodramas (we call them film noirs nowadays) were very...
View ArticleExposed (Sept. 8, 1947)
I wish that George Blair’s Exposed was a better movie, because it’s got a great setup. It’s one of those rare movies from the 1940s — like Crane Wilbur’s The Story of Molly X (1949) — that features a...
View ArticleSands of Iwo Jima (Dec. 14, 1949)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) Directed by Allan Dwan Republic Pictures In my recent review of Battleground (1949), I discussed whether or not it should be seen as an “anti-war film.” I absolutely don’t...
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