Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
L’armoire volante / The Cupboard Was Bare (1948) Carlo Rim, Fernandel, Berthe Bovy, Germaine Kerjean, Comedy, Crime
Alfred Pic is a conscientious tax inspector who lives with his authoritarian aged aunt. Read More »
Il pirata sono io! / The Pirate’s Dream (1940) Mario Mattoli, Erminio Macario, Juan de Landa, Enzo Biliotti, Comedy
The governor of Santa Genoveffa eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Viceroy and his wife and decides to stage a pirate attack…. and from then on a bad idea gets worse. Read More »
Marry the Boss’s Daughter (1941) Thornton Freeland, Brenda Joyce, Bruce Edwards, George Barbier, Comedy, Romance
Jefferson Cole comes to New York seeking a job, but is unable to find one. Read More »
La gondola del diavolo / The Devil’s Gondola (1946) Carlo Campogalliani, Loredana, Carlo Lombardi, Erminio Spalla, Adventure
In Ducal Venice, a series of heinous crimes are mysteriously committed concomitantly to the arrival of a gondola, by the popular fantasy called “the devil’s gondola”. Read More »
Major Barbara (1941) Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Comedy
A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father’s business.
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Mokey (1942) Wells Root, Dan Dailey, Donna Reed, Robert Blake, Drama
Mokey is an eight-year-old boy whose father gives him too little attention and whose stepmother misunderstands him. His misdeeds are due to neglect and misunderstanding on the part of his elders.
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Hitler’s Madman (1943) Douglas Sirk, Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman, Drama, War
Somewhat fictionalized account of the destruction of the village of Lidice in Czechoslovakia and the events leading up to it. Read More »
Frontier Gal (1945) Charles Lamont, Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron, Andy Devine, Family, Musical, Western
A wanderer returns after 6 years and a one-night honeymoon to make amends with his bride and 5 year old daughter. Read More »
Reg’lar Fellers (1941) Arthur Dreifuss, Billy Lee, Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer, Buddy Boles, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the “Reg’lar Fellers”, and one girl-feller, tinker with building a land/water machine Read More »
Red Light (1949) Roy Del Ruth, George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. Read More »
Bodyguard (1948) Richard Fleischer, Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Phillip Reed, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Homicide detective Mike Carter is tossed off the police force for insubordination and violating regulations. Read More »
Bedtime Story (1941) Alexander Hall, Fredric March, Loretta Young, Robert Benchley, Comedy, Romance
A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and Read More »
El seminarista / The Seminarist (1949) Roberto Rodríguez, Pedro Infante, Silvia Derbez, Fernando Soto, Comedy, Drama
Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind. Read More »
Johnny Eager (1941) Mervyn LeRoy, Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Ruthless hood Johnny Eager is pretending to his parole officer that he has chucked the rackets and is now a full-time taxi driver. Read More »