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Tag Archives: 1940s
Ladies in Retirement (1941) Charles Vidor, Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes
In the late nineteenth century, Ellen Creed works as the live-in companion to Miss Leonora Fiske Read More »
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Victor Fleming, Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone. Experiments reveal his evil side, named Hyde. Read More »
The Lone Wolf in London (1947) Leslie Goodwins, Gerald Mohr, Nancy Saunders, Eric Blore
Michael Lanyard (Gerald Mohr) is suspected of stealing two fabulous diamonds from a vault in Scotland Yard Read More »
The Red Shoes (1948) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer
Under the authoritarian rule of charismatic ballet impressario Boris Lermontov Read More »
Two Sisters from Boston (1946) Henry Koster, Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, Lauritz Melchior
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she’s a successful opera singer in New York. Read More »
The Amazing Mr. X (1948) Bernard Vorhaus, Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O’Donnell
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow Read More »
Totò le mokò (1949) Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Totò, Gianna Maria Canale, Carla Calò
The mobster Pep le Mok dies during a shootout with the police. Read More »
Catacombs (1940) Martin Fric, Vlasta Burian, Jaroslav Marvan, Cenek Slégl
An older clerk Mr. Borman works in basement offices of the Land Registry which are cakke Catacombs by employees. Read More »
16 Fathoms Deep (1948) Irving Allen, Lloyd Bridges, Lon Chaney Jr., Arthur Lake
Examines the dangerous business of snaring sponges on the ocean’s floor that are sold via an auction exchange. Read More »
Faithful in My Fashion (1946) Sidney Salkow, Donna Reed, Tom Drake, Edward Everett Horton
A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. Read More »
The Flame of New Orleans (1941) René Clair, Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young
French farce comes to the New World in 1840 as Claire Ledoux convinces the middle-aged banker Read More »
My Crimes After Mein Kampf (1940) Alexandre Ryder, Roger Karl, Line Noro, Pierre Labry
The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939). Read More »
The Mill on the Po (1949) Alberto Lattuada, Carla Del Poggio, Jacques Sernas, Mario Besesti
Berta Scarceni is betrothed to Orbino Verginesi and the engagement is celebrated on the floating mill of the Scarceni. Read More »
Black Gold (1947) Phil Karlson, Anthony Quinn, Katherine DeMille, ‘Ducky’ Louie
In the early 1920s, in the desert near the Texas-Mexico border, Charley Eagle (Anthony Quinn), is Indian who owns a small Read More »