Henry Pecket keeps a land-bound, home-made sloop in the backyard of his boarding house ran by widow Sara March, who is tolerant of the fancied trips around the world taken by her “ancient mariner” boarder. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
San Pietro (1945) Mark W. Clark, John Huston
This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Read More »
My Pal Wolf (1944) Alfred L. Werker, Sharyn Moffett, Jill Esmond, Una O’Connor
In this adventure the young lively daughter of wealthy Virginia parents bridles under the stern tutelage of her new English nanny Read More »
The Comedians (1941) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Käthe Dorsch, Hilde Krahl, Henny Porten
Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. Read More »
To Be or Not to Be (1942) Ernst Lubitsch, Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack
In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife Maria) match wits with the Nazis. Read More »
We Who Are Young (1940) Harold S. Bucquet, Lana Turner, John Shelton, Gene Lockhart
Two young office workers working at the same large firm secretly marry and defy their employer’s policy against coworker fraternization. Read More »
Pirates of Monterey (1947) Alfred L. Werker, Maria Montez, Rod Cameron, Mikhail Rasumny
Captain Phillip Kent, a soldier of fortune, and his friend Sergeant Pio, journey from Mexico City to Monterey on a secret mission. Read More »
Behind the Rising Sun (1943) Edward Dmytryk, Margo, Tom Neal, J. Carrol Naish
Cornell-educated Taro Seki returns to Japan just as the war party gains control. Read More »
Vice Versa (1948) Peter Ustinov, Roger Livesey, Kay Walsh, Petula Clark
Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. Read More »
Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948) Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle, Hugh Williams, Isabel Jeans
Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII. Read More »
Riders of the Purple Sage (1941) James Tinling, George Montgomery, Mary Howard, Robert Barrat
Lassiter discovers the judge (Barrat) who cheated his neice of her inheritance leads a gang of badguys posing as vigilantes. Read More »
Men Against the Sky (1940) Leslie Goodwins, Richard Dix, Kent Taylor, Edmund Lowe
Phil Mercedes, the world-famous “Greatest Pilot of Them All,” who has been grounded because of his addiction to alcohol. Read More »
The Missing Juror (1944) Budd Boetticher, Jim Bannon, Janis Carter, George Macready
A detective tries to stop whomever is murdering the jurors on a notorious murder case. Read More »
Black Magic (1949) Gregory Ratoff, Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff
Novelist Alexander Dumas tells his writer-son of Joseph Balsamo, a gypsy boy in southern France who was embittered because his parents were wrongfully hanged Read More »
Lumière d’été (1943) Jean Grémillon, Madeleine Renaud, Pierre Brasseur, Madeleine Robinson
A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle Read More »