The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn’t what they expected. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Adventure in Baltimore (1949) Richard Wallace, Robert Young, Shirley Temple, John Agar
In 1905, teenaged Dinah Sheldon is an aspiring artist and budding suffragette. Read More »
Barbary Coast Gent (1944) Roy Del Ruth, Wallace Beery, Binnie Barnes, John Carradine
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco Read More »
One More Tomorrow (1946) Peter Godfrey, Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party–until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Read More »
Fantastic Night AKA La nuit fantastique (1942) Marcel L’Herbier, Fernand Gravey, Micheline Presle, Saturnin Fabre
Denis is distracted: he’s studying all day for philosophy exams Read More »
New York Town (1941) Charles Vidor, Fred MacMurray, Mary Martin, Robert Preston
Victor Ballard is a poor but happy-go-lucky New York sidewalk photographer Read More »
New Moon (1940) Robert Z. Leonard, W.S. Van Dyke, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Mary Boland
Marianne de Beaumaniour is on her way to New Orleans from Paris to inspect the plantation she inherited from her uncle. Read More »
Little Nellie Kelly (1940) Norman Taurog, Judy Garland, George Murphy, Charles Winninger
Irish colleen Nellie is in love with handsome Jerry Kelly, even though her father objects. Read More »
Send for Paul Temple (1946) John Argyle, Anthony Hulme, Joy Shelton, Tamara Desni
This is the first film based on Francis Durbridge’s long-running BBC Radio serial. Read More »
The Way of All Flesh (1940) Louis King, Akim Tamiroff, Gladys George, William Henry
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna Read More »
The Mayor of 44th Street (1942) Alfred E. Green, George Murphy, Anne Shirley, William Gargan
In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency Read More »
Sister Kenny (1946) Dudley Nichols, Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger
Elizabeth Kenny, as a young nurse out in the Australian bush discovers an effective treatment for polio Read More »
Mexican Spitfires Elephant (1942) Leslie Goodwins, Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Walter Reed
A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette Read More »
Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) Robert Wise, Simone Simon, John Emery, Kurt Kreuger
One of the few failures for RKO Radio’s resident “prestige programmer” producer Val Lewton Read More »
Dual Alibi (1947) Alfred Travers, Herbert Lom, Phyllis Dixey, Terence de Marney
Twin trapezists fall out over a lottery ticket and a worthless woman, but later extract a unique revenge. Read More »