Hari Shankar (Ashok Kumar) comes to claim his inheritance – a palatial building known as Shabnam Mahal. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Within These Walls (1945) H. Bruce Humberstone, Thomas Mitchell, Mary Anderson, Edward Ryan
Michael Howland, a stern hanging judge, is assigned to take over a chaotic prison. Read More »
They Were Expendable (1945) John Ford, Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed
In the wake of Pearl Harbor’s surprise attack, World War II hero, Lt. John Brickley’s experimental squadron Read More »
Getting Gertie’s Garter (1945) Allan Dwan, Dennis O’Keefe, Marie McDonald, Barry Sullivan
Getting Gertie’s Garter is an updated adaptation of the venerable stage farce by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood. Read More »
B.F.’s Daughter (1948) Robert Z. Leonard, Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Charles Coburn
Polly Fulton is the only daughter of rich industrialist B.F. Fulton. Read More »
Busman’s Honeymoon (1940) Arthur B. Woods, Richard Thorpe, Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks
Lord Peter Wimsey is an amateur detective. He is to be married to Harriet Vane, who writes crime novels, at a big Society wedding. Read More »
The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) Jean Renoir, Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. Read More »
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) John Cromwell, Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon
Biopic of Abe Lincoln, 16th President of he United States, from his early days in backwoods Kentucky to his election as President. Read More »
Primrose Path (1940) Gregory La Cava, Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother Read More »
Scarlet Street (1945) Fritz Lang, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. Read More »
The Song of Bernadette (1943) Henry King, Charles Bickford, Jennifer Jones, William Eythe
In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of “a beautiful lady” in the city dump. Read More »
Beautiful But Broke (1944) Charles Barton, Joan Davis, John Hubbard, Jane Frazee
Theatrical agent Waldo Main (John Eldredge) is inducted into the army Read More »
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook
Portrays in warm-hearted detail the life and loves of one extraordinary man. Read More »
Boston Blackie and the Law (1946) D. Ross Lederman, Chester Morris, Trudy Marshall, Constance Dowling
Boston Blackie, ex-convict and amateur magician, is doing his act at a prison-for-women Read More »
Cowboy Canteen (1944) Lew Landers, Charles Starrett, Jane Frazee, Barbara Jo Allen
During world-war-two, Arizona cattle-ranch owner Steve Bradley (Charles Starrett) Read More »