Tag Archives: 1940s

Nine characters from different walks of life are transported to a post-war Utopia, but how many are ready to live in it?

Vincent Van Der Lyn, a Dutch freedom fighter in WWII, is forced to neutral Lisbon to escape the Nazis.

A struggling artist becomes a New York City prizefighter in an attempt to win the affection of the ring promoter’s night club singing sister.

Judy Jones, sings with a band and also works at an aircraft plant. She takes part in a “missing heirs” radio program and is discovered to be an heiress to a fortune.

One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, fellow sorority girl Mary O’Ryan decides to do some sleuthing on her own to unmask the killer.

A blackmailing doctor is shot and stumbles into the street and is promptly run over by a taxicab.

In this uplifting romantic drama, the wife of a mechanic and former fighter pilot falls in love with the idea of flying herself.

A young married couple’s weekend is interrupted by the arrival of a brash, loud-mouthed acquaintance of the wife, who knew her before her marriage.

War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute “chaperone” Ivy Hotchkiss.

British filmmaker Carol Reed and American playwright Garson Kanin team up to direct the war documentary The True Glory.