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Tag Archives: 1940s
Star Without Light AKA Étoile sans lumière (1946) Marcel Blistène, Édith Piaf, Marcel Herrand, Jules Berry
Piaf plays an aspiring singer who tries to break into films during the early talkie era. Read More »
Crash Dive (1943) Archie Mayo, Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews
Against his personal preference, PT boat commander Ward Stewart is made executive officer of the submarine USS Corsair. Read More »
Maryland (1940) Henry King, Walter Brennan, Fay Bainter, Brenda Joyce
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. Read More »
Manila Calling (1942) Herbert I. Leeds, Lloyd Nolan, Carole Landis, Cornel Wilde
When the Japanese capture the principal radio station of the American Radio Communications Company in the Philippines Read More »
Sweet and Low-Down (1944) Archie Mayo, Benny Goodman, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie
After their annual free concert at Chicago’s Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman Read More »
Christmas Holiday (1944) Robert Siodmak, Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly, Richard Whorf
A young femme fatale-type woman realizes that the wealthy man she married is an incorrigible wastrel. Read More »
Sons of Matthew (1949) Charles Chauvel, Michael Pate, Ken Wayne, Tommy Burns
The story of five brothers who homestead, with other settlers Read More »
Any Number Can Play (1949) Mervyn LeRoy, Clark Gable, Alexis Smith, Wendell Corey
Although Charley Kying has owned a casino for fifteen years, on one rainy night events Read More »
Forbidden (1949) George King, Douglass Montgomery, Hazel Court, Patricia Burke
After the war, Jim Harding (Douglass Montgomery) is desperate to put his knowledge Read More »
China’s Little Devils (1945) Monta Bell, Harry Carey, Paul Kelly, ‘Ducky’ Louie
This is the story of Little Butch, a true patriot loyal to China and loyal to his adopted brethren – The American Flying Tigers. Read More »
She Gets Her Man (1945) Erle C. Kenton, Joan Davis, William Gargan, Leon Errol
Two people have been murdered in Clayton by a mysterious killer using a blow-gun. Read More »
The Golden Fleecing (1940) Leslie Fenton, Lew Ayres, Rita Johnson, Lloyd Nolan
A $50,000 life-insurance sale puts mild-mannered Henry Twinkle on the fast track at Ajax Insurance Company. Read More »
High Tide (1947) John Reinhardt, Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop
A fast-moving automobile fails to make a sharp turn of the highway from Malibu to Los Angeles. Read More »
The Homestretch (1947) H. Bruce Humberstone, Cornel Wilde, Maureen O’Hara, Glenn Langan
A film that qualifies as a Travelogue Documentary in that it contains footage Read More »