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Tag Archives: 1940s
The Contender (1944) Sam Newfield, Buster Crabbe, Arline Judge, Julie Gibson
Widower Gary Farrell can’t afford, on his $45-weekly salary as a truck driver, to send his young son, Mickey Read More »
The Jade Mask (1945) Phil Rosen, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Edwin Luke
Eccentric scientist Harper lives in a spooky mansion with all the trimmings: hidden lab Read More »
The Youngest Profession (1943) Edward Buzzell, Virginia Weidler, Edward Arnold, John Carroll
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day Read More »
The Spoilers (1942) Ray Enright, Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne
In Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon Read More »
Betrayal from the East (1945) William Berke, Lee Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Loo
Just before World War II, Japan plants a network of spies and saboteurs in California. Read More »
The Silver Fleet (1943) Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley, Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight
Jaap van Leyden (Sir Ralph Richardson) is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. Read More »
Double Alibi (1940) Phil Rosen, Wayne Morris, Margaret Lindsay, William Gargan
A man’s ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect. Read More »
Bitter Sweet (1940) W.S. Van Dyke, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, George Sanders
In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn’t love Read More »
The Golden Stallion (1949) William Witney, Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dale Evans
Diamonds are being smuggled across the border from Mexico in a specially Read More »
Standing Room Only (1944) Sidney Lanfield, Paulette Goddard, Fred MacMurray, Edward Arnold
During World War II, Lee Stevens travels to Washington D.C. with his secretary Read More »
Opened by Mistake (1940) George Archainbaud, Charles Ruggles, Janice Logan, Robert Paige
This zany comedy-mystery gets under way when wiseguy reporter Jimmie Daniels (Robert Paige) Read More »
They Met in Bombay (1941) Clarence Brown, Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre
The best-laid plans of jewel thief Gable and lady crook Russell fall apart Read More »
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) Dudley Nichols, Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey
Eugene O’Neill’s updated version of the Oresteia. In New England, after the American Civil War Read More »
Night Plane from Chungking (1943) Ralph Murphy, Robert Preston, Ellen Drew, Otto Kruger
Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road Read More »