Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Gates of the Night AKA Les portes de la nuit (1946) Marcel Carné, Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand
It’s Paris in the winter after its liberation. A tramp, pretending to be Destiny Read More »
Free, Blonde and 21 (1940) Ricardo Cortez, Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Joan Davis
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. Read More »
The Lone Wolf and His Lady (1949) John Hoffman, Ron Randell, June Vincent, Alan Mowbray
Michael Lanyard aka The Lone Wolf (Ron Randell) reformed and retired jewel thief Read More »
The Fabulous Dorseys (1947) Alfred E. Green, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Janet Blair
The rise and rise of the Fabulous Dorsey brothers is charted in this whimsical step down memory lane Read More »
Weekend for Three (1941) Irving Reis, Dennis O’Keefe, Jane Wyatt, Phillip Reed
A young married couple’s weekend is disrupted by the birth of a brash Read More »
Storm Over the Mountain AKA Premier de cordée (1944) Louis Daquin, Irène Corday, André Le Gall, Marcel Delaître
Zian Servettaz is a dedicated mountain man. His Italian-born wife Bianca does not adjust Read More »
Holiday AKA Jour de fête (1949) Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur
Once a year the fair comes for one day to the little town ‘Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre’. Read More »
Mashenka (1942) Yuli Raizman, Valentina Karavayeva, Mikhail Kuznetsov, D. Pankratova
In 1939, as the air raid sirens sound over Moscow, a young man, Alyosha Read More »
Freedom Radio (1941) Anthony Asquith, Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Raymond Huntley
Hitler’s doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn’t as good as it pretends Read More »
Here Comes Kelly (1943) William Beaudine, Eddie Quillan, Joan Woodbury, Maxie Rosenbloom
Because of his hot, often-flaring temper, Jimmy Kelly loses another job Read More »
The Crooked Road (1940) Phil Rosen, Edmund Lowe, Irene Hervey, Henry Wilcoxon
A blackmail threat from an old prison buddy compels a man who has gone straight to consider yet another crime. Read More »
The Magnificent Dope (1942) Walter Lang, Henry Fonda, Lynn Bari, Don Ameche
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest Read More »
Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941) Victor Schertzinger, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant
New York chorus girl Cindy Lou Bethany becomes frustrated when she prepares for an audition for a Broadway musical Read More »
T-Men (1947) Anthony Mann, Dennis O’Keefe, Wallace Ford, Alfred Ryder
When the American Treasure Department finds that a gang in Los Angeles Read More »