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Tag Archives: 1940s
L’assassinat du Père Noël / The Killing of Santa Claus (1941)
High up in the French Alps, the inhabitants of a small mountain village are busy preparing for Christmas. Read More »
House of Strangers (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
In New York, after seven years in prison, the lawyer Max Monetti goes to the bank Read More »
Difficult Years (1948) Luigi Zampa, Massimo Girotti
Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. Read More »
The Boys from Syracuse (1940) A. Edward Sutherland
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the story concerns the efforts of two boys from Syracuse Read More »
Arizona (1940) Wesley Ruggles, Jean Arthur, William Holden
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine Read More »
The Man from Colorado (1948) Henry Levin, Glenn Ford
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. Read More »
Take My Life (1947) Ronald Neame, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt
A woman races against time to clear Nicholas Talbot of a murder he did not commit. Read More »
Canadian Pacific (1949) Edwin L. Marin, Randolph Scott
After finding a vital pass through the Canadian Rockies for the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway Read More »
Marriage (1947) Keisuke Kinoshita, Kinuyo Tanaka
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family’s in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat. Read More »