During World War II an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
A Double Life (1947) George Cukor, Ronald Colman, Edmond O’Brien, Signe Hasso
Anthony John is an actor whose life is strongly influenced by the characters he plays. Read More »
The Great Gildersleeve (1942) Gordon Douglas, Harold Peary, Jane Darwell, Nancy Gates
Small-town eccentric Throckmorton Gildersleeve (of radio fame) has a few problems: Judge Hooker continually questions Read More »
Great Day (1945) Lance Comfort, Eric Portman, Flora Robson, Sheila Sim
In the English village of Denley, the Women’s Institute (a wartime program channeling village products to the troops) Read More »
Adventure in Washington (1941) Alfred E. Green, Herbert Marshall, Virginia Bruce, Gene Reynolds
A senator hires a young hooligan as a senate page, but when the kid gives away valuable information to a conniving businessman Read More »
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! (1942) Charles Barton, Jackie Gleason, Jack Durant, Florence Rice
A pair of barbers are driven out of business because most of the men in their small town are drafted into the army. Read More »
No Place for a Lady (1943) James P. Hogan, William Gargan, Margaret Lindsay, Phyllis Brooks
Jess Arno (William Gargan), a private detective from Los Angeles, succeeds in clearing former actress Dolly Adair (Phyllis Brooks) Read More »
Merton of the Movies (1947) Robert Alton, Red Skelton, Virginia O’Brien, Gloria Grahame
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. Read More »
They Were Sisters (1945) Arthur Crabtree, Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Hugh Sinclair
The story of three sisters who marry men of widely different character as their individual and widely-different married lives unfold. Read More »
Now, Voyager (1942) Irving Rapper, Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Overweight Boston spinster Charlotte is a repressed, self-esteemless woman completely dominated by her wealthy mother, Mrs. Henry Vale. Read More »
The Walls of Jericho (1948) John M. Stahl, Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, Anne Baxter
After County Attorney Dave Connors helps Julia Norman with her shiftless father, Jefferson Norman Read More »
Joe Palooka in The Counterpunch (1949) Reginald Le Borg, Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood Jr., Elyse Knox
Joe Palooka kayos Cardona, but the latter protests that he can beat the champ in his own country – South America. Read More »
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad (1948) Reginald Le Borg, Joe Kirkwood Jr., Leon Errol, Elyse Knox
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he’s told not to fight for a year. Read More »
Canyon Passage (1946) Jacques Tourneur, Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward
In 1856, backwoods businessman Logan Stuart escorts Lucy Overmire Read More »
Find the Blackmailer (1943) D. Ross Lederman, Jerome Cowan, Faye Emerson, Gene Lockhart
John Rhodes (Gene Lockhart)hires private detective D. L. Trees (Jerome Cowan)to track down a talking blackbird owned by Fred Molner Read More »