Invisible Agent (1942)

Invisible Agent (1942) is a Universal Monsters classic media franchise fake news erotic propaganda wartime horror comedy heroism anti-Axis adventure movie, charged with spookery, xenophobia, and not just a crazed fantasy of an invisible man behind enemy lines, but enemy lines behind which the Nazis and Japanese co-operate and compete as violent evil-doers.

The usual invisible man style of comedy is present and so of course he smokes a cigarette, as well as trying out some great new trick effects, such as changing out of his clothes mid air to land in 1942 Germany naked and invisible, as well as a cold cream application in order to reveal himself.

The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)

The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) is a Universal horror Frankenstein-franchise 'Monster Factory' resurrected monster horror drama villager thriller starring Lon Chaney Jr, Bela Lugosi, Evelyn Ankers and Lionel Atwill. 

An otherwise tale of perpetual and repeated and universal rejection, The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) is a class-act movie yarn of mob activity, superstition in the imaginary Eurowald of Hollywood, and possibly one of the finer expressions of the villager mob experience in all of the Golden Age horror cycling, while also undertaking some monster streamlining as the franchises developed, and as they simultaneously migrated into an increasingly cheaper sound stage reproduction of the monster infected olde worlde which appears increasingly foggy-floored and foggily-lored.

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) is a historical supernatural film noir drama adaptation of the great decadent novel by the fop himself, the dandy of the decade, the finesse of the fin de siècle himself, Oscar Wilde.

Noir and special effects and noir and colour noir, and a peculiar observation that like The Woman in White (1949) it's a novel adaptation that stretches the patience of its period, proving words provide girth and are worth their weight in those heavy heavy reels and our tendency to like em short.