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Tag Archives: 1940s
Green Hell (1940) James Whale, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Bennett, John Howard, Adventure, Romance
A group of adventurers head deep into a South American jungle in search of ancient Incan treasure. Read More »
The Red Danube (1949) George Sidney, Walter Pidgeon, Ethel Barrymore, Peter Lawford, Drama, Romance, War
Shortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael ‘Hooky’ Nicobar is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. Read More »
Fallen Angels (1948) Nikos Tsiforos, Hristos Tsaganeas, Smaroula Giouli, Irene Papas, Drama
Elli’s mother is sick and the family is poor. Elli’s stepfather, a small time crook, gets her a job as a mule delivering packages for the local drug lord. Read More »
Burma Convoy (1941) Noel M. Smith, Charles Bickford, Evelyn Ankers, Frank Albertson, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Charles Bickford plays the boss of a group of American truck drivers on the Burma Road. Read More »
The Hidden Hand (1942) Benjamin Stoloff, Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop, Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Everybody seems to have had a good time making the overripe melodrama The Hidden Hand, especially cadaverous Milton Parsons as insane-asylum escapee John Channing. Read More »
Virginia (1941) Edward H. Griffith, Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden, Drama, Romance
A New York chorus girl (Madeleine Carroll) comes home to claim her family plantation and must choose between two men (Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden), one rich, one not. Read More »
The Secret Heart (1946) Robert Z. Leonard, Claudette Colbert, Walter Pidgeon, June Allyson, Drama, Romance
Brillant pianist Larry Addams allows his frustrated ambitions to ruin his life and commits suicide, leaving his wife, Lee, and two small children Read More »
Remember the Day (1941) Henry King, Claudette Colbert, John Payne, Shepperd Strudwick
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost. Read More »
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) John Rawlins, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
When a Nazi saboteur jeeringly predicts to the nation new depredations, via their radio ‘Voice of Terror’ Read More »
Ball of Fire (1941) Howard Hawks, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Comedy, Romance
Sexy, wisecracking nightclub singer Sugarpuss O’Shea is a hot tomato who needs to be kept on ice Read More »
City Without Men (1943) Sidney Salkow, Linda Darnell, Edgar Buchanan, Michael Duane, Crime, Drama
A young woman’s husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. Read More »
Portrait of Maria (1944) Emilio Fernández, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Alberto Galán, Romance, Drama
In Xochimilco 1909, María Candelaria and Lorenzo Rafael long for getting married but the odds are against them. Read More »
The Gay Caballero (1940) Otto Brower, Cesar Romero, Sheila Ryan, Robert Sterling, Western
The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Read More »
Tell It to the Judge (1949) Norman Foster, Rosalind Russell, Robert Cummings, Gig Young, Comedy, Romance
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a Federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a ‘Good-Government’ group who think her divorce makes her unfit for the job. Read More »