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Tag Archives: 1940s
Mrs. Mike (1949) Louis King, Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, J.M. Kerrigan
While visiting her uncle in Alberta, Boston-born Kathy O’Fallon meets Canadian Mountie Mike Flannigan. Read More »
Paracelsus (1943) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Werner Krauss, Harry Langewisch, Annelies Reinhold
A 1943 German drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst based on the life of Philippus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus). Read More »
The Dark Mirror (1946) Robert Siodmak, Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell
A woman suspected of murdering her doctor boyfriend has an identical twin sister. Read More »
Cover Up (1949) Alfred E. Green, William Bendix, Dennis O’Keefe, Barbara Britton
An insurance company investigator goes to a small town to probe into a case of supposed suicide. Read More »
St. John the Baptist Beheaded (1940) Amleto Palermi, Giorgio Bianchi, Totò, Titina De Filippo, Silvana Jachino
Mastr’Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded Read More »
The Crime Doctor’s Courage (1945) George Sherman, Warner Baxter, Hillary Brooke, Jerome Cowan
Dr. Ordway investigates the death of man whose first two wives were murdered. Read More »
The Woman of My Dreams (1944) Georg Jacoby, Marika Rökk, Wolfgang Lukschy, Walter Müller
In this musical heavily influenced by Busby Berkeley, a revue star falls in love with an engineer who takes a dim view of light entertainment. Read More »
Sky Murder (1940) George B. Seitz, Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Kaaren Verne
Pat Evans is a German expatriate who is loyal to her new adopted home, the United States. Read More »
Without Pity (1948) Alberto Lattuada, Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Giulietta Masina
Narrates the love between Angela, a beautiful Italian girl, and Jerry, an African American boy. Read More »
The Lady Eve (1941) Preston Sturges, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. Read More »
Cornered (1945) Edward Dmytryk, Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel
On being demobbed at the end of the war, Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard returns to France to discover who ordered the killing Read More »
Ala-Arriba! (1942) José Leitão de Barros, Ilidio Rocha Silvestre, Elsa Bea-Flor, João Moço
In a village of poor fishermen in the North of Portugal, João Moço and Julha fall in love. Read More »
That’s My Man (1947) Frank Borzage, Don Ameche, Catherine McLeod, Roscoe Karns
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track Read More »
The Song Lantern (1943) Mikio Naruse, Shôtarô Hanayagi, Eijirô Yanagi, Ichijirô Oya
The head of an acclaimed Noh (traditional, stylised Japanese drama form) troupe has a son whom he wants to inherit the troupe/ school. Read More »