In WWI dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Hills of Home (1948) Fred M. Wilcox, Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake
William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Read More »
Feudin’, Fussin’ and A-Fightin’ (1948) George Sherman, Donald O’Connor, Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride
A fast-talking salesman is “kidnapped” by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community. Read More »
Janie Gets Married (1946) Vincent Sherman, Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold
Married life isn’t as blissful as either Dick or Janie had hoped. Dick is hired to write filler for his father-in-law’s newspaper Read More »
Janie (1944) Michael Curtiz, Joyce Reynolds, Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold
Janie is a scatter-brained and high spirited teenage girl living in the small town of Hortonville. Read More »
Just Before Dawn (1946) William Castle, Warner Baxter, Adele Roberts, Martin Kosleck
In the 7th film of the “Crime Doctor” series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter) is summoned to take attend a diabetic Read More »
Easy Living (1949) Jacques Tourneur, Victor Mature, Lizabeth Scott, Lucille Ball
Pete Wilson is on top. He is the highest paid professional football player in the league. Read More »
Dr. Kildare’s Wedding Day (1941) Harold S. Bucquet, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day
It is a week before Dr. Kildare’s wedding to pretty Nurse Mary Lamont. Read More »
Take One False Step (1949) Chester Erskine, William Powell, Shelley Winters, Marsha Hunt
Prof. Andrew Gentling, in Los Angeles to help found a new college, is inveigled by old flame Catherine Sykes into a midnight drive. Read More »
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) Carol Reed, Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert
William Pitt the Younger, son of a famous politician father, becomes the youngest Prime Minister England has ever known Read More »
Secret Agent of Japan (1942) Irving Pichel, Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Noel Madison
Kay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter addressed to Captain Larsen Read More »
Manila Calling (1942) Herbert I. Leeds, Lloyd Nolan, Carole Landis, Cornel Wilde
When the Japanese capture the principal radio station of the American Radio Communications Company in the Philippines Read More »
Carnival (1946) Stanley Haynes, Sally Gray, Michael Wilding, Stanley Holloway
A dancer attempts to escape from the narrow conventions of society and from the fate foretold for her at her birth. Read More »
Gunfighters (1947) George Waggner, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, Dorothy Hart
Gunfighter “Brazos” Kane lays aside his guns “forever” when he is forced to shoot his best friend Read More »
The Return of Monte Cristo (1946) Henry Levin, Louis Hayward, Barbara Britton, George Macready
Edmond Dantes is falsely accused of a crime and imprisoned. After 14 years ,He escapes and gets great wealth under the help of the Abbé Faria. Read More »