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Tag Archives: 1940s
Always Together (1947) Frederick De Cordova, Robert Hutton, Joyce Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway, Comedy
Millionaire Turner, on his deathbed, leaves a million to Jane Barker. A movie addict who believes life is like the movies, marries Donn without telling him about the bequest. Read More »
Tender Comrade (1943) Edward Dmytryk, Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Drama, Romance
Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation. Read More »
Kitty (1945) Mitchell Leisen, Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Patric Knowles, Drama, History
London, 1783: Kitty, a saucy wench of the slums, meets the painter Gainsborough by stealing his shoes. Read More »
The Guilty (1947) John Reinhardt, Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Regis Toomey, Film-Noir, Mystery
Two guys, sharing an apartment, meet twin girls. One is Shirley Temple grown-up, and the other is a major piece of bad news. Read More »
La torre de los siete jorobados / Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (1944) Edgar Neville, Antonio Casal, Isabel de Pomés, Guillermo Marín, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
In the Madrid of the 19th century a young man plays roulette. A mysterious character helps him by pointing with his walking stick the next number where the ball is going to fall. Read More »
Afsporet / Derailed (1942) Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen, Illona Wieselmann, Ebbe Rode, Poul Reumert, Crime, Drama, Romance, Film-Noir
“Afsporet” (Derailed) focuses on the intense erotic relationship between a rich woman suffering from amnesia and petty thief on probation entangled with organized crime. Read More »
Münchhausen / The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943) Josef von Báky, Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Brigitte Horney, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
This lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice Read More »
Nagaya shinshiroku / Record Of A Tenement Gentleman (1947) Yasujirô Ozu, Chôko Iida, Hôhi Aoki, Eitarô Ozawa, Drama
A young boy follows Tashiro home to his tenement housing complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, the boy who was separated from his carpenter father somehow and somewhere in Kudan. Read More »
La charrette fantôme / The Phantom Wagon (1939) Julien Duvivier, Pierre Fresnay, Marie Bell, Micheline Francey, Drama, Fantasy
According to Scandinavian legend, whosoever dies on the stroke of Midnight on the last day of the year (St. Sylvester’s Night) must assume the duties of the “phantom charioteer,” collecting souls for the next 365 days. Read More »
They Flew Alone / Wings and the Woman (1942) Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle, Robert Newton, Edward Chapman, Drama
The story of flyer Amy Johnson who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Read More »
Two Girls on Broadway (1940) S. Sylvan Simon, Lana Turner, Joan Blondell, George Murphy, Musical, Romance
Eddie sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. Read More »
The Story of Molly X (1949) Crane Wilbur, June Havoc, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Molly’s husband Rick was a gang leader somewhere in the middle west. When he’s shot, the tough woman moves to S.F. with a couple of the gang to start anew. Read More »
Nightmare Alley (1947) Edmund Goulding, Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Drama, Film-Noir
The ambitious Stanton “Stan” Carlisle works in a sideshow as carny and assistant of the mentalist Zeena Krumbein, who is married with the alcoholic Pete. Read More »
Phantom Lady (1944) Robert Siodmak, Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Unhappily married Scott Henderson spends the evening on a no-name basis with a hat-wearing woman he picked up in a bar. Read More »