Movies starring Tom Powers

Double Indemnity (1944)

107 mins     Crime, Drama      

The only people I know who speak with a descriptive flourish where they can embellish a detail by comparing it to something else are writers, not doctors, not milkmen and not insurance agents. So when at the start of "Double ...

The Blue Dahlia (1946)

96 mins     Crime, Mystery      

That synopsis for "The Blue Dahlia" makes it sound like a straight forward case of a guy ends up suspect in his wife's murder case because someone saw them argue on the night she was killed. But "The Blue Dahlia" ends up more...

They Won't Believe Me (1947)

95 mins     Crime, Drama      

I suppose I should say this but I have said it so many times before but here goes, I really get put off by the term "film-noir" it seems to get banded about that it seems like any movie which is a black and white crime story ...

Angel and the Badman (1947)

100 mins     Romance, Western      

I actually saw the 2009 remake of "Angel and the Badman" before seeing this 1947 John Wayne version and to be honest the 2009 version didn't do much for me. I hoped watching John Wayne along with other old western stars in th...

Station West (1948)

87 mins     Thriller, Western      

Take a bunch of actors who had appeared in a bunch of film-noir thrillers and have them play similar characters except place them in the Wild West rather than a damp city street and you end up with "Station West". It is a cur...

Destination Moon (1950)

92 mins     Adventure , Drama, Sci-Fi      

It's not often that I wish I was older but watching "Destination Moon" made me wish I had been a young boy when it was released. Released over a decade before cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made the first manned space flight and almo...

The Nevadan (1950)

81 mins     Western      

"The Nevadan" is one of those westerns where you get a feeling that the writer had a couple of good ideas up their sleeves but little else. And it means that whilst certain things in this western entertain the over all feelin...

Denver and Rio Grande (1952)

89 mins     Adventure , Western      

Denver and Rio Grande (1952) Edmond O'Brien is the railroad foreman wrngly accused of murder as two competing companies fight over the same rail line...