Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn’t send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Train of Events (1949) Sidney Cole, Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, Susan Shaw, Drama
A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it. Read More »
Somewhere in the Night (1946) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During the World War II, a soldier is hit by a grenade that deforms his face and leaves him with amnesia. Read More »
Le Baron Fantôme / The Phantom Baron (1943) Serge de Poligny, André Lefaur, Odette Joyeux, Jany Holt, Drama
Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié’s daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord, Baron Julius Carol, disappeared mysteriously some day. Read More »
Divorce (1945) William Nigh, Kay Francis, Bruce Cabot, Helen Mack, Drama
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend. Read More »
The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942) Richard Wallace, Joan Bennett, Franchot Tone, Allyn Joslyn, Comedy, Romance, War
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Read More »
Zhong Hua nu er / Daughters of China (1949) Zifeng Ling, Qiang Zhai, Li Bo, Defu Du, Feng Jin, Drama, War
Women play a heroic role in the Volunteer Army fighting the Japanese in the puppet state of Manchukuo. Read More »
Her Sisters Secret (1946) Edgar G. Ulmer, Nancy Coleman, Margaret Lindsay, Phillip Reed, Drama
A WWII tale of romance that begins during New Orlean’s “Mardi Gras” celebration when a soldier and a girl meet and fall in love. Read More »
Lady in a Jam (1942) Gregory La Cava, Irene Dunne, Patric Knowles, Ralph Bellamy, Comedy, Romance
Jane Palmer is suspected of insanity after squandering her inheritance, and a young psychiatrist, Dr. Enright, is assigned to her case. Read More »
Thunderhoof (1948) Phil Karlson, Preston Foster, Mary Stuart, William Bishop, Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Texas rancher Scotty Mason goes into the Mexican desert-country in search of a wild horse, and takes his young wife, Margarita and his hired-hand, The Kid, whose life Scotty had saved a few years earlier. Read More »
The Madonnas Secret (1946) Wilhelm Thiele, Francis Lederer, Gail Patrick, Ann Rutherford, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
This drama is an updated version of Ulmer’s 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who has come to New York to escape a controversy surrounding his work. Read More »
Specter of the Rose (1946) Ben Hecht, Judith Anderson, Michael Chekhov, Ivan Kirov, Drama, Film-Noir, Music, Romance, Thriller
Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he’s not the only one. Sanine is charming, if a little peculiar. Read More »
Non coupable / Not Guilty (1947) Henri Decoin, Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Georges Bréhat, Crime, Drama
Michel Ancelin is an alcoholic doctor: the more the people look down on him as a miserable failure the more he hates his own guts… Read More »
Mystery of Marie Roget (1942) Phil Rosen, Patric Knowles, Maria Montez, Maria Ouspenskaya, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A detective tries to unravel the strange circumstances surrounding the death of a young actress. Read More »
Allotment Wives (1945) William Nigh, Kay Francis, Paul Kelly, Otto Kruger, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Story of women who marry GIs just so they can receive the soldiers’ pay and their life insurance if they are killed in action. Read More »