Ida Lupino

  • Ida Lupino – The Bigamist (1953)

    1951-1960DramaIda LupinoUSA

    Quote:
    Harry and Eve Graham are trying to adopt a baby. The head of the agency senses Harry is keeping a secret and does some investigating. He soon discovers Harry has done an unusual amount of traveling from his home in San Francisco to Los Angeles. Harry gets tracked down in LA where he has a second wife and a baby. Via flashbacks, Harry tells the adoption agent how he ended up in two marriages.Read More »

  • Elmer Clifton & Ida Lupino – Not Wanted (1949)

    1941-1950DramaElmer CliftonIda LupinoUSA

    Quote:
    Originally begun as NOT WANTED by low-budget director Elmer Clifton, who almost immediately suffered a heart attack and died soon after, the film was completed by actress Ida Lupino, her first directorial effort (she also co-wrote and co-produced this one). Lupino was a film noir favorite, and would continue acting well into the 1970s, but her short directing career was a first in Hollywood. She was one of the first actors to make the move behind the camera, and was the very first actress to direct her own feature-length film. Read More »

  • Ida Lupino – Never Fear (1950)

    1941-1950DramaIda LupinoUSA

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    A dancer who has just gotten engaged to her partner and choreographer and is about to embark on a major career is devastated to learn that she has contracted polio.Read More »

  • Charles Vidor – Ladies in Retirement (1941)

    1941-1950Charles VidorCrimeThrillerUSA

    Synopsis:
    In the late nineteenth century, Ellen Creed works as the live-in companion to Miss Leonora Fiske, a retired actress who lives in the English countryside and who still retains her theatrical mannerisms. Ellen receives notice that the landlady of her two sisters, Emily Creed and Louisa Creed, who currently live in London, is threatening to call the police to haul them away to an asylum because of their disruptive behavior due to their mentally deranged state. Ellen will not allow her sisters to be institutionalized, and convinces Miss Fiske to allow them to stay with them for a couple of days. Miss Fiske was unaware of their deranged mental state when she agreed and is also unaware that Ellen hopes to make their stay permanent.Read More »

  • Archie Mayo & Fritz Lang – Moontide (1942)

    1941-1950Archie MayoDramaFilm NoirFritz LangUSA

    Synopsis:
    After a drunken binge on the San Pablo waterfront, longshoreman Bobo fears he may have killed a man. In his uncertainty, he takes a job on an isolated bait barge. That night, he rescues lovely Anna from a watery suicide attempt and installs her on the barge. But Tiny, Bobo’s longtime pal and parasite, hopes to drive Anna away before domestic bliss tears Bobo away from him; the still unsolved murder may be just the wedge Tiny needs. There’s fog on the water and evil brewing…Read More »

  • S. Sylvan Simon & George Marshall – Lust for Gold (1949)

    1941-1950AdventureGeorge MarshallS. Sylvan SimonUSAWestern

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    Fortune seeker Barry Storm stumbles onto some clues that may lead him to the fabulous Lost Dutchman Mine, but others have tried and been murdered.Read More »

  • Elmer Clifton & Ida Lupino – Not Wanted (1949) (HD)

    1941-1950DramaElmer CliftonIda LupinoUSA

    After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.Read More »

  • Michael Curtiz – The Sea Wolf (1941)

    1941-1950AdventureClassicsMichael CurtizUSA

    Synopsis:
    Humphrey van Weyden, a writer, and fugitives Ruth Webster and George Leach have been given refuge aboard the sealer “Ghost,” captained by the cruel Wolf Larsen. The crew mutinies against Larsen’s many crimes, and though van Weyden, Ruth, and George try to escape Larsen’s clutches, they find themselves drawn inexorably back to him as the “Ghost” sails toward disaster.Read More »

  • Nicholas Ray & Ida Lupino – On Dangerous Ground (1951)

    1951-1960Film NoirIda LupinoNicholas RayUSA

    Quote:
    A superb noir thriller with a difference. Ray’s second film with producer John Houseman (the first being They Live By Night) starts off in the sinister urban jungle, with Ryan’s cop increasingly brutalised by the ‘garbage’ he is forced to deal with. Finally, his methods become so violent that he is sent to cool off in snowy upstate New York, where his search for a sex killer brings him into contact with Lupino’s blind woman and her mentally retarded brother (Williams). It’s a film about the violence within us all, about the effects of environment and family upon character (Lupino, peaceful and a healing force, even has a tree in her living room), and about the spiritual redemption of a fallen man.Read More »

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