Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) Robert Hamer, Googie Withers, Jack Warner, John McCallum, Crime, Drama
Slice of life drama following the lives of various people in London’s East End on a wet Sunday. Read More »
Dr. Cyclops (1940) Ernest B. Schoedsack, Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Horror
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel Read More »
The Search (1948) Fred Zinnemann, Montgomery Clift, Ivan Jandl, Aline MacMahon, Drama, War
A silent nine-year-old Czech boy, a survivor of Auschwitz, flees a refugee center in postwar Germany and is found by an American G.I. Read More »
Convicted Woman (1940) Nick Grinde, Rochelle Hudson, Frieda Inescort, June Lang, Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Jobless Betty Andrews, although innocent, is convicted of a department store theft and Read More »
Les eaux troubles (1949) Henri Calef, Ginette Leclerc, Édouard Delmont, André Valmy, Drama, Film-Noir
History of the family and community conflicts between a small group of people who depend on fishing around Mont St. Michel.
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The Underdog (1943) William Nigh, Barton MacLane, Bobby Larson, Jan Wiley, Drama, War
During WWII, a small but strong-willed 12-year-old boy tries to steer his vocationally and maritally confused father straight Read More »
Tornado Range (1948) Ray Taylor, Eddie Dean, Copper the Horse, Roscoe Ates, Action, Drama, Music, Western
Eddie Dean, under orders as a U.S. Land Office agent, is trying to prevent a range war from being started between homesteaders and ranchers when a caravan of the so-called ‘Nesters’ Read More »
The Small Back Room (1949) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, David Farrar, Jack Hawkins, Kathleen Byron, Drama, Romance, Thriller
The best bomb disposal officer during World War II was badly injured and is in frequent pain. Read More »
The Brasher Doubloon (1947) John Brahm, George Montgomery, Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Philip Marlowe gets involved when limp-wristed and snidely Leslie Murdock steals a rare doubloon from his mother to give to a newsreel photographer Read More »
Something in the Wind (1947) Irving Pichel, Deanna Durbin, Donald O’Connor, John Dall, Comedy, Musical
Deanna Durbin stars in the musical shaggy dog story Something in the Wind. Read More »
There Goes Kelly (1945) Phil Karlson, Jackie Moran, Wanda McKay, Sidney Miller, Mystery, Comedy
Two young men working as pages at a radio station try to get an audition for a girl they know who wants to be a singer. Read More »
The Mummy’s Hand (1940) Christy Cabanne, Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, Wallace Ford, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
A couple of comical, out-of-work archaeologists (Dick Foran and Wallace Ford) in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. Read More »
A Stranger in Town (1943) Roy Rowland, Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson, Jean Rogers, Drama, Romance
In the small town of Crown Port local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. Read More »
Douce / Love Story (1943) Claude Autant-Lara, Odette Joyeux, Madeleine Robinson, Marguerite Moreno, Drama
In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Read More »