William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Janie (1944) Michael Curtiz, Joyce Reynolds, Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold
Janie is a scatter-brained and high spirited teenage girl living in the small town of Hortonville. Read More »
Easy Living (1949) Jacques Tourneur, Victor Mature, Lizabeth Scott, Lucille Ball
Pete Wilson is on top. He is the highest paid professional football player in the league. Read More »
Dr. Kildare’s Wedding Day (1941) Harold S. Bucquet, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day
It is a week before Dr. Kildare’s wedding to pretty Nurse Mary Lamont. Read More »
Take One False Step (1949) Chester Erskine, William Powell, Shelley Winters, Marsha Hunt
Prof. Andrew Gentling, in Los Angeles to help found a new college, is inveigled by old flame Catherine Sykes into a midnight drive. Read More »
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) Carol Reed, Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert
William Pitt the Younger, son of a famous politician father, becomes the youngest Prime Minister England has ever known Read More »
Secret Agent of Japan (1942) Irving Pichel, Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Noel Madison
Kay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter addressed to Captain Larsen Read More »
Carnival (1946) Stanley Haynes, Sally Gray, Michael Wilding, Stanley Holloway
A dancer attempts to escape from the narrow conventions of society and from the fate foretold for her at her birth. Read More »
Gunfighters (1947) George Waggner, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, Dorothy Hart
Gunfighter “Brazos” Kane lays aside his guns “forever” when he is forced to shoot his best friend Read More »
Sailors Three (1940) Walter Forde, Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert, Carla Lehmann
Three British sailors find they’ve accidentally strayed on board a Nazi ship during WWII. Read More »
A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941) Henry King, Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton
Tyrone Power is a pilots’ pilot, but he doesn’t believe in anything beyond his own abilities. Read More »
49th Parallel (1941) Michael Powell, Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Richard George
In the early years of World War II, a German U-boat (U-37) sinks Allied shipping in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Read More »
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams
Throughout the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the people was frequently advised that “A raid happened last night over…, One (or more) Our Aircraft Is Missing”. Read More »
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) William Keighley, Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
Lecturer Sheridan Whiteside slips on the ice on his way into the home of a prominent Ohio family. Read More »
Antoine and Antoinette (1947) Jacques Becker, Roger Pigaut, Claire Mafféi, Noël Roquevert
Working class couple Antoine and Antoinette dream of a better life. Read More »