Cement company CEO Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a wife in name only, an arrangement made to protect his finances from an attempt at a hostile business takeover. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Penny Serenade (1941) George Stevens, Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi, Drama, Romance
As Julie prepares to leave her husband Roger, she begins to play through a stack of recordings, each of which reminds her of events in their lives together. Read More »
Deputy Marshal (1949) William Berke, Jon Hall, Frances Langford, Dick Foran, Western
A few minutes before he is killed by an unseen gunman using a split-butt rifle, in a saloon in Tumult, Wyoming, railway employee Harley Masters gives a secret map to Deputy Marshal Ed Garry. Read More »
Death in High Heels (1947) Lionel Tomlinson, Don Stannard, Elsa Tee, Veronica Rose, Crime, Mystery
This is not a movie that will be on everyone’s lips, there is just no full frontal, or otherwise, nudity to be had. Read More »
The Earl of Chicago (1940) Richard Thorpe, Victor Saville, Robert Montgomery, Edward Arnold, Reginald Owen, Drama
Silky has always moved booze. In prohibition, he smuggled it from Canada, but now that it is legal, he produces his own brand. Read More »
Free and Easy (1941) George Sidney, Edward Buzzell, Robert Cummings, Ruth Hussey, Judith Anderson, Comedy, Romance
Max and his father are both looking to marry wealthy women. The task would be far easier if either one of them had any money of their own. Read More »
Candlelight in Algeria (1944) George King, James Mason, Carla Lehmann, Raymond Lovell, Drama, War
An American sculptress in wartime Britain gets mixed up with a British agent Read More »
Son of the Navy (1940) William Nigh, Jean Parker, James Dunn, Martin Spellman, Drama, Comedy
Actually, the sailor wants nothing to do with the boy, who we eventually find out is an orphan who ran away from the orphanage, trying to find a new Mom and Dad. Read More »
Road to Happiness (1941) Phil Rosen, John Boles, Mona Barrie, Billy Lee, Drama, Musical, Romance
Jeff Carter, a singer down on his luck, turns to radio acting as a means of supporting his young son Danny. Read More »
Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943) Gordon Douglas, Harold Peary, Billie Burke, Claire Carleton, Comedy
A drug supply company plans to go out of business, which could force Peavey the druggist to close up shop. Read More »
I’m from Arkansas (1944) Lew Landers, Slim Summerville, El Brendel, Iris Adrian, Comedy, Musical, Romance
The town of Pitchfork, Arkansas makes national headlines when Esmeralda the sow gives birth to 18 piglets. Read More »
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) Sam Wood, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists Read More »
L’uomo dalla croce / Man with a Cross (1943) Roberto Rossellini, Alberto Tavazzi, Roswita Schmidt, Attilio Dottesio, War, Drama
An extremely rare film by Roberto Rossellini, his third feature, made under the Fascist control of Italy. Read More »
Law of the Tropics (1941) Ray Enright, Constance Bennett, Jeffrey Lynn, Regis Toomey, Drama, Romance
Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry. Read More »
The Forest Rangers (1942) George Marshall, Fred MacMurray, Paulette Goddard, Susan Hayward, Action, Drama
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana ‘Butch’ Mason, and finds evidence of arson. Read More »