The Pearl of Death

The Pearl of Death 1944

7.10

The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes. But before long the jewel is stolen, due to an error on Holmes' part, and shortly thereafter, a series of horrible murders begin, the murderer leaving his victims with their spines snapped and surrounded by a mass of smashed china.

1944

The Most Beautiful

The Most Beautiful 1944

5.60

The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and tremendous personal hardship, the women persevere in their tasks, devoted to their work and their country's cause.

1944

The Way Ahead

The Way Ahead 1944

6.47

A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.

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

Bon Voyage

Bon Voyage 1944

5.60

A young, Scottish RAF gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from Nazi-occupied territory. They are particularly interested in one person who may or may not have been a German agent.

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

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

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

Cowboy and the Senorita

Cowboy and the Senorita 1944

3.70

Chip has inherited a supposedly worthless gold mine from her father and Craig Allen is about to buy it. Roy suspects the mine may be valuable and using a clue left by Chip's father, investigates. He finds the hidden shaft that contains the gold and with the posse chasing him on a trumped up robbery charge, races to town with ore samples hoping to get there before the ownership is transferred.

1944

Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis 1944

7.00

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

Madagascar Landing

Madagascar Landing 1944

5.40

A former leader of the French Resistance finds that one of his fellow actors looks like a detestable official he knew in Madagascar during the war. He tells about his time, operating an illegal radio station while evading the Nazis.

1944

Laura

Laura 1944

7.63

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

1944

Hands Across the Border

Hands Across the Border 1944

5.50

Horse breeders Adams and Brock are vying for the Army contract. When Adams is killed trying to ride his horse Trigger, Roy saves the horse from being shot. He trains him and then plans to ride him in the race to win the contract.

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

Bluebeard

Bluebeard 1944

5.50

Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?

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

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

Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace 1944

7.63

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

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

Lights of Old Santa Fe

Lights of Old Santa Fe 1944

5.20

Sandwiched in between the numerous musical numbers, the Gabby Whittaker and Madden rodeo's are competing for bookings. When Gabby gets a date in Albuquerque, Madden has his man destroy his equipment. Roy finds a broken rawhide rope at the scene and uses it to bring Madden to justice.

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