Free film adaptation of the short story “The Kreutzer Sonata,” by Tolstoy Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Square Dance Jubilee (1949) Paul Landres, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Mary Beth Hughes, Wally Vernon
In the early days of television, Don Blake and partner Sam are sent west to look Read More »
Bismarck (1940) Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Paul Hartmann, Friedrich Kayßler, Lil Dagover
A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia Read More »
Traffic in Crime (1946) Lesley Selander, Kane Richmond, Anne Nagel, Adele Mara
Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire Read More »
The Unknown Guest (1943) Kurt Neumann, Victor Jory, Pamela Blake, Veda Ann Borg
Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear. Read More »
Blackmail (1947) Lesley Selander, William Marshall, Adele Mara, Ricardo Cortez
A private detective is approached by a wealthy entertainment executive to stop a blackmail scheme against him. Read More »
The Saint Takes Over (1940) Jack Hively, George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale
The Saint plays a “modern-day Robin Hood” in order to clear his friend Read More »
Under the Bridges AKA Unter den Brücken (1945) Helmut Käutner, Hannelore Schroth, Carl Raddatz, Gustav Knuth
“Under the Bridges”, made in the last year of the Third Reich, proves that artistic Read More »
Sweet Rosie O’Grady (1943) Irving Cummings, Betty Grable, Robert Young, Adolphe Menjou
Music-hall star Madeleine Marlowe leaves London engaged to the Duke of Trippingham Read More »
Greenwich Village (1944) Walter Lang, Carmen Miranda, Don Ameche, William Bendix
In 1922, novice composer Kenneth Harvey arrives in New York from Kansas Read More »
George White’s Scandals (1945) Felix E. Feist, Joan Davis, Jack Haley, Phillip Terry
This Broadway revue is all about two love affairs. The love between the comedienne Joan Mason Read More »
The Stars Look Down (1940) Carol Reed, Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Edward Rigby
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent Read More »
Angel on the Amazon (1948) John H. Auer, George Brent, Vera Ralston, Brian Aherne
American Jim Warburton crashes his plane in the Amazon jungle and promptly falls in love with Christine Ridgegway Read More »
The Ghost Train (1941) Walter Forde, Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. Read More »
Mirror AKA Miroir (1947) Raymond Lamy, Jean Gabin, Antonin Berval, Daniel Gélin
Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac Read More »