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Tag Archives: 1940s
Monsieur Beaucaire (1946) George Marshall, Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield, Patric Knowles
Beaucaire is a barber for the Royal French court who becomes a real “royal pain” for the king. Read More »
Arabian Nights (1942) John Rawlins, Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu
Dancer Sherazade was told by the stars that she will become wife of the kalif in Bagdad. Read More »
South of Pago Pago (1940) Alfred E. Green, Victor McLaglen, Jon Hall, Frances Farmer
In the 1890s, white-skinned Ruby Taylor (Frances Farmer) makes a strange journey from Singapore Read More »
The Paleface (1948) Norman Z. McLeod, Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong
Someone is selling guns to the Indians and in order to find the culprit Calamity Jane Read More »
Spitfire (1942) Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John
By the late 1920’s aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell feels he has achieved all he wants Read More »
Murderers Among Us (1946) Wolfgang Staudte, Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer
Susanne Wallner returns to the ruins of Berlin from a Concentration Camp after WW2 to discover Read More »
Klondike Kate (1943) William Castle, Ann Savage, Tom Neal, Glenda Farrell
Molly and her troupe of dancing girls and “entertainers”, sent for by saloon owner “Sometime” Smith Read More »
The Raven (1943) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey
A vicious series of poison-pen letters spreads rumours, suspicion and fear among the inhabitants of a small French town Read More »
Quay of the Goldsmiths (1947) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Bernard Blier
Jenny Lamour wants to succeed in music hall. Her husband and accompanist is Maurice Martineau, a nice but jealous guy. Read More »
Warning to Wantons (1949) Donald B. Wilson, Harold Warrender, Anne Vernon, David Tomlinson
Seventeen-year-old Renee slips away from her convent school, joins her fashionable mother Read More »
Donne-moi tes yeux (1943) Sacha Guitry, Geneviève Guitry, Aimé Clariond
A renowned sculptor aged about fifty years, François Bressolles falls for the young Catherine Collet Read More »
The Estrela’s Lion (1947) Arthur Duarte, António Silva, Milú, Maria Eugénia
Anastacio, a football fan supporting the Sporting Club, meets the Baratas while on vacation with his family. Read More »
Reign of Terror (1949) Anthony Mann, Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart
Robespierre, a powerful figure in the French Revolution and the subsequent Reign of Terror Read More »
Adventures of Casanova (1948) Roberto Gavaldón, Arturo de Córdova, Lucille Bremer, Turhan Bey
Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered Read More »