After nearly running over him with her cab, Patty Mitchell picks up a fare who claims to have amnesia. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Green Grass of Wyoming (1948) Louis King, Peggy Cummins, Charles Coburn, Robert Arthur
“Thunderhead,” a roving, big white stallion, causes problems for the Wyoming ranchers Read More »
Behind the Eight Ball (1942) Edward F. Cline, Al Ritz, Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz
The shooting and murder of two guest stars at the Shady Ridge Summer Theatre Read More »
Arson, Inc. (1949) William Berke, Robert Lowery, Anne Gwynne, Edward Brophy
Fireman Joe Martin comes to suspect that fires occurring in the warehouse Read More »
The Village Teacher AKA Selskaya uchitelnitsa (1947) Mark Donskoy, Vera Maretskaya, Pavel Olenev, Daniil Sagal
Eve of the First World War. After graduating from high school in St. Petersburg Read More »
Murder in Reverse? (1945) Montgomery Tully, William Hartnell, Jimmy Hanley, Chili Bouchier
Dock worker Tom Masterick is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. Read More »
The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne AKA Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945) Robert Bresson, Paul Bernard, María Casares, Elina Labourdette
Hélène knows that Jean does not love her anymore. She’s filled with despair and anger, and she begins brooding on revenge. Read More »
That Lady in Ermine (1948) Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger, Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Cesar Romero
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Read More »
Another Part of the Forest (1948) Michael Gordon, Fredric March, Dan Duryea, Edmond O’Brien
Fifteen years after the Civil War the people of Bowden, Alabama still hate Marcus Hubbard for wartime profiteering. Read More »
China (1943) John Farrow, Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, William Bendix
Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China Read More »
Give Us This Day (1949) Edward Dmytryk, Sam Wanamaker, Lea Padovani, Kathleen Ryan
One of the few (if any at the time this film was made) films shot in England with New York City’s ‘Little Italy” as the locale. Read More »
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944) Richard Thorpe, Van Johnson, June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven
A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken Read More »
Panama Hattie (1942) Norman Z. McLeod, Roy Del Ruth, Vincente Minnelli, Red Skelton, Ann Sothern, Rags Ragland
Hattie Maloney runs a saloon in Panama where assorted characters congregate Read More »
My Universities AKA Moi universitety (1940) Mark Donskoy, Nikolai Valbert, Stepan Kayukov, Nikolai Dorokhin
The last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy’s Maxim Gorky trilogy. Read More »
The Great McGinty (1940) Preston Sturges, Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited Read More »