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Tag Archives: 1940s
Michigan Kid (1947) Ray Taylor, Jon Hall, Victor McLaglen, Rita Johnson
Jim Rowan, after his discharge from the U.S. Calvary at the end of the Sioux Wars Read More »
A Stolen Life (1946) Curtis Bernhardt, Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark
Kate Bosworth and her twin sister Patricia fall in love with Nantucket lighthouse inspector Bill Emerson. Read More »
It Rains on Our Love (1946) Ingmar Bergman, Barbro Kollberg, Birger Malmsten, Gösta Cederlund
Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Read More »
The Sky Dragon (1949) Lesley Selander, Roland Winters, Keye Luke, Mantan Moreland
All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up Read More »
The Heavenly Body (1944) Alexander Hall, Vincente Minnelli, William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, James Craig
Astronomer Bill Whitley is so preoccupied with the new comet he’s discovered that his time at the observatory sometimes Read More »
Responsibility Comes Back (1945) Alessandro Blasetti, Elisa Cegani, Valentina Cortese, María Denis
In 1939, after finishing his studies in a Roman convent boarding Read More »
Blithe Spirit (1945) David Lean, Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond
Blithe Spirit, David Lean’s delightful film version of Noël Coward’s theater sensation Read More »
The Radio Girl (1944) Arthur Duarte, Maria Matos, António Silva, Maria Eugénia
Cipriano Lopes & D.Rosa Gonçalves are shopkeepers and hate each other. Read More »
Experiment Perilous (1944) Jacques Tourneur, Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas
In 1903, Dr. Bailey meets a very strange woman on a train, then hears that she has died under mysterious circumstances. Read More »
The Falcon and the Co-eds (1943) William Clemens, Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Rita Corday
Tom Lawrence, the Falcon, is called to the Bluecliff School for young ladies Read More »
Daybreak (1948) Compton Bennett, Eric Portman, Ann Todd, Maxwell Reed
A hangman conceals his true identity when he falls in love Read More »
Corridor of Mirrors (1948) Terence Young, Eric Portman, Edana Romney, Barbara Mullen
A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life. Read More »
Stage Struck (1948) William Nigh, Kane Richmond, Audrey Long, Conrad Nagel
The police find the body of hostess Helen Howard (Wanda McKay), disposed of by petty racketeer Nick Mantee (Kane Richmond) Read More »
Song of the Thin Man (1947) Edward Buzzell, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn
Nick and Nora Charles are asked by Phil Brant and Janet Thayar Read More »