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 »
Tag Archives: 1940s
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 »
Difficult Years (1948) Luigi Zampa, Massimo Girotti, Umberto Spadaro, Ave Ninchi
Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. Read More »
Vengeance Is Mine (1949) Alan Cullimore, Valentine Dyall, Anne Firth, Richard Goolden
Believing himself to be dying, a man hires an assassin to kill him so he can frame an enemy for the death. Read More »
Child of Divorce (1946) Richard Fleischer, Sharyn Moffett, Regis Toomey, Madge Meredith
An eight-year-old girl is an unwilling and disturbed witness of parental quarrels in her home, and when the parents finally secure a divorce Read More »
Angel and Sinner (1945) Christian-Jaque, Micheline Presle, Berthe Bovy, Louise Conte
This film is an adaptation of two stories by Guy de Maupassant, Tallow Ball and Mademoiselle Fifi. Read More »
The Fighting Seabees (1944) Edward Ludwig, John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O’Keefe
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites Read More »
Two People (1945) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Georg Rydeberg, Wanda Rothgardt, Gabriel Alw
When the prestigious Dr. Arne Lundell ends the most important work of his life, a colleague from the University of Stockholm Read More »
Frisco Sal (1945) George Waggner, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey, Alan Curtis
Sally Warren (Susanna Foster) comes from Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Barbary Coast to find John Warren, her long-lost brother. Read More »
Tragic Hunt (1947) Giuseppe De Santis, Vivi Gioi, Andrea Checchi, Carla Del Poggio
Immediately after the war, a truck on which the newlyweds Michele and Giovanna travel Read More »
Under the Sun of Rome (1948) Renato Castellani, Oscar Blando, Liliana Mancini, Francesco Golisano
The film starts with the narrator stating that “this is a true story.” Ciro, a young man living in Rome during WWII Read More »
Bowery to Broadway (1944) Charles Lamont, Maria Montez, Jack Oakie, Susanna Foster
Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway Read More »
The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942) Harold S. Bucquet, Edward Arnold, Fay Bainter, Richard Ney
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley (Fay Bainter) refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until Read More »
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) Alexander Hall, Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes…because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job Read More »
Whisky Galore! (1949) Alexander Mackendrick, Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Catherine Lacey
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 – during WWII – was S/S Politician. Read More »