The owner of an old mansion has decided to sell it. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Money Madness (1948) Sam Newfield, Hugh Beaumont, Frances Rafferty, Harlan Warde
A murderous bank robber on the run from the law hides out in a small town Read More »
Tale of the Siberian Land AKA Skazanie o zemle sibirskoy (1948) Ivan Pyrev, Vladimir Druzhnikov, Marina Ladynina, Boris Andreyev
His right hand having been wounded during the war, concert pianist Andrei Balashov Read More »
Father Takes a Wife (1941) Jack Hively, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Swanson, John Howard
Frederick Osborne, Junior is slightly agitated because his father, Senior Read More »
Whispering Ghosts (1942) Alfred L. Werker, Milton Berle, Brenda Joyce, John Shelton
An actor who plays a detective on a radio show and his sidekick get it into their heads Read More »
All-American Co-Ed (1941) LeRoy Prinz, Frances Langford, Johnny Downs, Marjorie Woodworth
All-girl school Mar Brynn tries to get more pupils and publicity by making fun of the Quincton college. Read More »
The Howards of Virginia (1940) Frank Lloyd, Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic Read More »
Dragon Seed (1944) Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway, Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon
Ling Tang and his family live on his prosperous farm in rural Southern China Read More »
Native Land (1942) Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand, Paul Robeson, Fred Johnson, Mary George
Paul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill Read More »
The Naughty Nineties (1945) Jean Yarbrough, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis
In the gay ’90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Read More »
Keep ‘Em Flying (1941) Arthur Lubin, Ralph Ceder, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Martha Raye
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Read More »
Moontide (1942) Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang, Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell
After a drunken binge on the San Pablo waterfront, longshoreman Bobo fears he may have killed a man. Read More »
Larceny, Inc (1942) Lloyd Bacon, Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford
Three bumbling crooks buy a store so that they can rob the bank next door. Read More »
Brother Orchid (1940) Lloyd Bacon, Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern
Gang boss Little John Sarto returns from Europe where he was looking for “class” Read More »
The Stork Club (1945) Hal Walker, Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald, Don DeFore
A hat-check girl at the Stork Club (Hutton) saves the life of a drowning man (Fitzgerald). Read More »