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Tag Archives: 1940s
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 »
Fiamme sul mare (1948) Vittorio Cottafavi, Michal Waszynski, Carlo Ninchi, Evi Maltagliati, Silvana Jachino
A former war captain buys a wrecked ship Read More »
Hideout (1949) Philip Ford, Lloyd Bridges, Lorna Gray, Ray Collins
Hannah Kelly and Edie Hanson vie for the attentions of the naive attorney George Browning. Read More »
The Smiling Ghost (1941) Lewis Seiler, Wayne Morris, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith
Elinor Bentley Fairchild’s previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Read More »
Desperate (1947) Anthony Mann, Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr
When mobster Walt Radak tries to trick independent trucker Steve Randall Read More »
Ladies’ Day (1943) Leslie Goodwins, Lupe Velez, Eddie Albert, Patsy Kelly
Wacky Waters, the greatest pitcher in baseball, is burning up the league until Read More »
Sepia Cinderella (1947) Arthur H. Leonard, Billy Daniels, Sheila Guyse, Tondaleyo
Plot concerns a struggling band leader’s rise to fame after overcoming many obstacles Read More »
Castle Sinister (1948) Oscar Burn, Mara Russell-Tavernan, Robert Essex, Karl Meir
Various people converge on remote, eerie Glennye Castle which is reputedly Read More »
The Rothschilds AKA Die Rothschilds (1940) Erich Waschneck, Erich Ponto, Carl Kuhlmann, Albert Lippert
Anti-semitic Nazi propaganda “biography” of the Rothschilds, a German Jewish family Read More »
The Woman of the Town (1943) George Archainbaud, Claire Trevor, Albert Dekker, Barry Sullivan
New York newspaperman Bat Masterson thinks back on his time as a lawman in Dodge City Read More »
The Blum Affair AKA Affaire Blum (1948) Erich Engel, Hans Christian Blech, Ernst Waldow, Paul Bildt
This early postwar suspense story, based on a well-known 1926 murder trial Read More »
Something Is in the Water AKA Valamit visz a víz (1944) Gusztáv Oláh, Lajos Zilahy, Pál Jávor, Klára Pápai, Gyula Koltai
John, his wife and son live happily next to the river in a small but cozy house. Read More »
Broadway (1942) William A. Seiter, George Raft, Pat O’Brien, Janet Blair
George Raft, hoofer at the Paradise Club, shares his ambitions with his dancing partner, Billie Moore. Read More »
Inside Job (1946) Jean Yarbrough, Preston Foster, Ann Rutherford, Alan Curtis
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. Read More »