The Curse of the Swastika, a classic British Pathé documentary from 1940 Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Outrages of the Orient (1948) Carlos Vander Tolosa, William H. Jansen, Linda Estrella, Fernando Royo, Mona Lisa
A docu-drama recreating the rape and plundering conducted by WWII Japanese troops against the Filipino people. Read More »
Never Say Goodbye (1946) James V. Kern, Errol Flynn, Eleanor Parker, Lucile Watson
Both living in New York City, successful artist Phillip Gayley, most renowned for his series of Gayley Girls Read More »
Rainbow Man (1949) Kiyohiko Ushihara, Keiju Kobayashi, Teruko Akatsuki, Katsuko Wakasugi
When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder Read More »
Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942) Basil Dearden, Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney
Professor Davis, who teaches at a correspondence school, discovers that a Nazi Agent is trying to prevent Read More »
Danger Woman (1946) Lewis D. Collins, Don Porter, Brenda Joyce, Patricia Morison
An atomic scientist who was one of the brains behind the A-bomb is now working in private life Read More »
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 »
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 »