Tag Archives: 1940s

Mary now runs a bookstore in L.A. with her grandfather, whose past gambling excesses have left her hating everything about the pastime.

A WWII tale of romance that begins during New Orlean’s “Mardi Gras” celebration when a soldier and a girl meet and fall in love.

Jane Palmer is suspected of insanity after squandering her inheritance, and a young psychiatrist, Dr. Enright, is assigned to her case.

Texas rancher Scotty Mason goes into the Mexican desert-country in search of a wild horse, and takes his young wife, Margarita and his hired-hand, The Kid, whose life Scotty had saved a few years earlier.

This drama is an updated version of Ulmer’s 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who has come to New York to escape a controversy surrounding his work.

Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he’s not the only one. Sanine is charming, if a little peculiar.

The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn’s Roseanna McCoy.

Michel Ancelin is an alcoholic doctor: the more the people look down on him as a miserable failure the more he hates his own guts…

A detective tries to unravel the strange circumstances surrounding the death of a young actress.

Story of women who marry GIs just so they can receive the soldiers’ pay and their life insurance if they are killed in action.