Aubrey Filmore (Red Skelton) is a bumbling bellboy in a Missouri town who pesters Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Bowery Buckaroos (1947) William Beaudine, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan
The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Read More »
Sentimental Journey (1946) Walter Lang, John Payne, Maureen O’Hara, William Bendix
An actress, Julie Beck, finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. Read More »
U-Boat, Course West! AKA U-Boote westwärts! (1941) Günther Rittau, Herbert Wilk, Heinz Engelmann, Joachim Brennecke
This Nazi propaganda film follows the exploits of a German submarine as it prowls the North Atlantic. Read More »
Gallant Journey (1946) William A. Wellman, Glenn Ford, Janet Blair, Charles Ruggles
Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation Read More »
Passage to Marseille (1944) Michael Curtiz, Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan
As French bomber crews prepare an air raid from a base in England Read More »
The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946) David Butler, Dennis Morgan, Martha Vickers, Jack Carson
The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor Read More »
Make Mine Laughs (1949) Richard Fleischer, Hal Yates, Joan Davis, Dennis Day, Ray Bolger
A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new. Read More »
Train to Alcatraz (1948) Philip Ford, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Janet Martin, William Phipps
The last car of a transcontinental train streaking through desolate desert country Read More »
There’s Something About a Soldier (1943) Alfred E. Green, Tom Neal, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett
War-time films set in stateside training camps abounded in the early Forties. Read More »
Golden Hoofs (1941) Lynn Shores, Jane Withers, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Kay Aldridge
Jane’s grandfather must sell his trotting horse farm. Read More »
Green for Danger (1946) Sidney Gilliat, Alastair Sim, Sally Gray, Trevor Howard
In a rural English hospital during WWII, a postman dies on the operating table. Read More »
Let’s Face It (1943) Sidney Lanfield, Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Zasu Pitts
A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women’s “fat farm” nearby Read More »
Meet the Wildcat (1940) Arthur Lubin, Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Joseph Schildkraut
Magazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico’s National Museum Read More »
The Trap (1946) Howard Bretherton, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Victor Sen Yung
When a troupe of showgirls with their impresario and press agent vacation Read More »