Murder, My Sweet

Murder, My Sweet 1944

7.23

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

1944

The Yellow Rose of Texas

The Yellow Rose of Texas 1944

5.00

Insurance Investigator Roy is looking for Weston and the missing money he supposedly obtained in a robbery. When he catches him and listens to his story, he changes his mind about him. A freak accident locates the missing money box and they find the seal unbroken. Roy then announces the box will be opened at the showboat that evening.

1944

Jubilation Street

Jubilation Street 1944

6.30

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

1944

Song of Nevada

Song of Nevada 1944

6.00

When John Barrabbee's plane makes an emergency landing, he wanders off and joins Roy's cattle drive. Later he learns he was killed when his plane resumed its flight and crashed. He also learns his daughter is going to sell his ranch and marry a man he dislikes. So he gives Roy a job on the ranch and sends him off to see if he can prevent both of these events while he remains in hiding. Written by Maurice VanAuken Western girl moves east and influenced badly by her snobby fiance. She returns to sell her deceased father's ranch. The father isn't really dead, though; he's hoping that his friend Roy can restore the girl's western values. Songs include "New Moon Over Nevada," "A Cowboy has to Yodel in the Morning," and "The Harum Scarum Baron of the Harmonium." Written by Ed Stephan

1944

Dark Mountain

Dark Mountain 1944

4.90

A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, who is now a park ranger, for help. He hides her out in a cabin up in the mountains, and her husband goes on the hunt for both of them.

1944

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity 1944

8.11

A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband's life insurance.

1944

Go Down Death

Go Down Death 1944

3.40

The owner of a juke joint arranges to frame an innocent preacher with a scandalous photograph, but his scheme backfires when his own adoptive mother interferes.

1944

Laura

Laura 1944

7.63

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

1944

Dangerous Passage

Dangerous Passage 1944

4.44

Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel.

1944

Gaslight

Gaslight 1944

7.48

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

1944

The Whispering Skull

The Whispering Skull 1944

4.67

Rangers Tex Haines and Dave Wyatt track a killer known as the Whispering Skull. In the wake of the Skull's slaughter, a band of thieves takes advantage of the fear he's brought to town.

1944

Zorro's Black Whip

Zorro's Black Whip 1944

5.20

Pretty Girl Barbara Mededith takes over her murdered brother's crusading newspaper. She also assumes the dead sibling's identity as "The Black Whip," righting the wrongs of Crescent City very much in the manner of her famous ancestor, Zorro.

1944

The Three Caballeros

The Three Caballeros 1944

6.28

For Donald's birthday he receives a box with three gifts inside. The gifts, a movie projector, a pop-up book, and a pinata, each take Donald on wild adventures through Mexico and South America.

1944

Obsession

Obsession 1944

7.53

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.

1944

The Memphis Belle

The Memphis Belle 1944

6.70

This WW2 documentary centers on the crew of the American B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle as it prepares to execute a strategic bombing raid on Nazi submarine pens in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

1944

One Body Too Many

One Body Too Many 1944

5.00

An insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.

1944

Lady in the Death House

Lady in the Death House 1944

5.40

As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.

1944

Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis 1944

6.98

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

1944

Million Dollar Kid

Million Dollar Kid 1944

5.80

In ridding the area of muggers, the East Side Boys acquire a wealthy benefactor whose privileged son, unbeknownst to him, has fallen in with thugs.

1944

Guest in the House

Guest in the House 1944

4.38

Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas, who is happily married to Ann. Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the love of Douglas.

1944

Golden Globe Awards

Golden Globe Awards 1944

7.00

An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

1944

The World in Your Home

The World in Your Home 1944

4.00

The World in Your Home is an NBC Television TV series which aired from December 22, 1944 to 1948, originally broadcast on WNBT, NBC's New York flagship, then broadcast on NBC-affiliate stations WRGB in New York's Capital District and WPTZ in Philadelphia starting shortly after its premiere. The program consisted of educational short films. Each episode was 15 minutes long, and is believed to be one of the first television programs in the history of the NBC Television network. The series aired after I Love to Eat with James Beard in 1946, and after Campus Hoopla in 1947. Little else is known about the series.

1944