Streetwise but kind-hearted Maisie Ravier has put her vaudeville life behind her, but not its associated outward good looks, flash and glamor. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Woman of My Dreams (1944) Georg Jacoby, Marika Rökk, Wolfgang Lukschy, Walter Müller
In this musical heavily influenced by Busby Berkeley, a revue star falls in love with an engineer who takes a dim view of light entertainment. Read More »
Zoya (1944) Lev Arnshtam, Galina Vodyanitskaya, Yekaterina Skvortsova, Kseniya Tarasova
Zoya is the inspirational true story of one of Russia’s most beloved national heroines. Read More »
Sky Murder (1940) George B. Seitz, Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Kaaren Verne
Pat Evans is a German expatriate who is loyal to her new adopted home, the United States. Read More »
My Universities (1940) Mark Donskoy, Nikolai Valbert, Stepan Kayukov, Nikolai Dorokhin
The last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy’s Maxim Gorky trilogy. Read More »
Without Pity (1948) Alberto Lattuada, Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Giulietta Masina
Narrates the love between Angela, a beautiful Italian girl, and Jerry, an African American boy. Read More »
The Lady Eve (1941) Preston Sturges, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. Read More »
Cornered (1945) Edward Dmytryk, Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel
On being demobbed at the end of the war, Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard returns to France to discover who ordered the killing Read More »
Ala-Arriba! (1942) José Leitão de Barros, Ilidio Rocha Silvestre, Elsa Bea-Flor, João Moço
In a village of poor fishermen in the North of Portugal, João Moço and Julha fall in love. Read More »
That’s My Man (1947) Frank Borzage, Don Ameche, Catherine McLeod, Roscoe Karns
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track Read More »
The Song Lantern (1943) Mikio Naruse, Shôtarô Hanayagi, Eijirô Yanagi, Ichijirô Oya
The head of an acclaimed Noh (traditional, stylised Japanese drama form) troupe has a son whom he wants to inherit the troupe/ school. Read More »
They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) Alberto Cavalcanti, Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones
In this gritty film noir, cynical ex-RAF flyer Morgan, bored with civilian life, joins a break-in gang led by Narcy. Read More »
Le destin exécrable de Guillemette Babin (1948) Guillaume Radot, Héléna Bossis, Michel Barbey, Germaine Kerjean
Being born a witch’s daughter did not bode well for your future in the Middle Ages. Read More »
The Man in Grey (1943) Leslie Arliss, Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert
At an estate auction in WWII England, two strangers meet and muse about their families’ history and possible connections. Read More »
Knock on Any Door (1949) Nicholas Ray, Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready
Andrew Morton is an attorney who made it out of the slums. Nick Romano is his client, a young man with a long string of crimes behind him. Read More »