Showing posts with label Irving Reis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irving Reis. Show all posts

24.11.14

a date with the falcon (1941)

"That's quite a flasher ain't it."
A scientist is kidnapped and the Falcon (George Sanders) tries to find him before he spills his formula for making synthetic diamonds.
Breezy detective yarn, with a bit too much bedroom farce thrown in, as the Falcon has to keep his girlfriend happy in the process.

the gay falcon (1941)

"Call me gay, it saves time."
The Falcon (George Sanders) chases some jewel thieves who have teamed up with some hard up socialites to defraud insurance companies.
The first of the Falcon series sees Sanders establish the suave amateur detective with the roving eye.

16.3.14

hitler's children (1943)

"Blood calls to blood, and German blood runs deep."
Prof. Nichols (Kent Smith) is a teacher at the American school in Berlin, in 1933. Opposite is a German school, one populated by Hitler Youth. Inevitably there is conflict, especially when Anna (Bonita Granville), a former student and teacher is taken way on orders of the Gestapo.
Propaganda piece that attempts to show the insidious rise of the German war machine on the home front, with brainwashing and intimidation of its own people.