Rousing biopic of Paul Kruger, the Boer guerilla fighter turned statesman and first president of South Africa. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) Basil Dearden, Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Flora Robson
A young woman marries Prince Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage Read More »
The Flame that Never Dies AKA Fiamma che non si spegne (1949) Vittorio Cottafavi, Gino Cervi, María Denis, Leonardo Cortese
Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D’Acquisto. Read More »
Forbidden Songs AKA Zakazane piosenki (1947) Leonard Buczkowski, Danuta Szaflarska, Janina Ordezanka, Jerzy Duszynski
A Polish musician tells a young soldier about his wartime activity – setting up a street orchestra Read More »
Men of Novgorod AKA Novgorodtsy (1943) Boris Barnet, Evgeniy Grigorev, Olga Yakunina, Ekaterina Sipavina
The story of a French pilot, shot down by the Nazis and falling into a partisan detachment in the Novgorod region. Read More »
The Red Stallion (1947) Lesley Selander, Robert Paige, Noreen Nash, Ted Donaldson
Yong Joel Curtis finds an orphaned colt in the woods, whom he names “Red” and raises and trains him. Read More »
The Deserter AKA Wilder Urlaub (1943) Franz Schnyder, Robert Trösch, Adolf Manz, Sylva Denzler
A young soldier in an army camp near a small Swiss village gets into an argument with his sergeant, which winds up in a fight. Read More »
Mystery Broadcast (1943) George Sherman, Frank Albertson, Ruth Terry, Nils Asther
A radio detective sets out to solve an old murder case, with the help of her sound man and another radio detective. Read More »
Adventure (1945) Victor Fleming, Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Joan Blondell
A rowdy, womanizing merchant marine, leader of an eccentric crew of misfits and drunks Read More »
The Perfect Snob (1941) Ray McCarey, Charles Ruggles, Charlotte Greenwood, Lynn Bari
Dr. Mason, a veterinarian, gets word of the engagement of his daughter Read More »
Maisie Gets Her Man (1942) Roy Del Ruth, Ann Sothern, Red Skelton, Leo Gorcey
Parting company with her on-stage partner Professor Orco partly due to the job being Read More »
For the Love of Rusty (1947) John Sturges, Ted Donaldson, Tom Powers, Ann Doran
Danny Mitchell, feeling that he has been misunderstood (nothing new for this kid in this series) Read More »
Desire Me (1947) Jack Conway, Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum, Richard Hart
Shortly after WWII, flashbacks tell the story of Marise, her husband Paul Read More »
Dark Is the Night AKA Odnazhdy nochyu (1945) Boris Barnet, Irina Radchenko, Boris Andreyev, Ivan Kuznetsov
A girl, working in a German commandant’s office, saves two wounded Russian pilots sacrificing her own life. Read More »
Castle on the Hudson (1940) Anatole Litvak, John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O’Brien
Mobster Tommy Gordon isn’t worried about being sentenced to Sing Sing prison Read More »