Amidst the Nazi invasion of France in 1942, a young girl is evacuated to Switzerland Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Truth About Murder (1946) Lew Landers, Bonita Granville, Morgan Conway, Rita Corday
Christine, a lawyer closely working with District Attorney Lester Ashton, quits her job and joins his friend Bill’s one-man buffet. Read More »
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) Mervyn LeRoy, Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker
The amazingly detailed true story of “The Doolittle Raid” based on the personal account by Doolittle Raider Ted Lawson. Read More »
Out of the Storm (1948) R.G. Springsteen, Jimmy Lydon, Lois Collier, Marc Lawrence
A young man with financial problems works in the payroll office of a factory. Read More »
Travelling Actors AKA Tabi yakusha (1940) Mikio Naruse, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kan Yanagiya, Minoru Takase
Story about a group of actors mostly based on the guys playing the horse. Read More »
Arise, My Love (1940) Mitchell Leisen, Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O’Keefe
In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War Read More »
It Had to Be You (1947) Don Hartman, Rudolph Maté, Ginger Rogers, Cornel Wilde, Percy Waram
A woman is noted for leaving her bridegrooms at the altar until a dashing fireman walks into her life. Read More »
Too Many Girls (1940) George Abbott, Lucille Ball, Richard Carlson, Ann Miller
Mr Casey’s daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge he sends Read More »
Night Train to Memphis (1946) Lesley Selander, Roy Acuff, Roy Acuff’s Smoky Mountain Boys, Allan Lane
On a train heading into the small mountain town of Tranquility, Danny Acuff kisses Read More »
Those Blasted Kids AKA De Pokkers Unger (1947) Astrid Henning-Jensen, Bjarne Henning-Jensen, Henry Nielsen, Tove Maës, Sigrid Horne-Rasmussen
THOSE BLASTED KIDS tells a story of a group of back-alley urchins that is considered Denmark’s first true children’s film. Read More »
Men of Boys Town (1941) Norman Taurog, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Bobs Watson
Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy return in this sequel to the original Boys Town. Read More »
The Hard Way (1943) Vincent Sherman, Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan
Ambitious Helen Chernin (Ida Lupino) pushes her talented younger sister Katherine Read More »
The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940) George King, Marius Goring, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Helen Haye
“Mark’s Priory”. the family seat of the Lebanons, is a house of terror to Ilsa Crane, secretary and niece of Lady Lebanon. Read More »
The Echo Murders (1945) John Harlow, David Farrar, Dennis Price, Pamela Stirling
The police are investigating the suspicious death of a mine owner Read More »
A Close Call for Ellery Queen (1942) James P. Hogan, William Gargan, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin
Two mysterious seamen come from Alan Rogers’ past to blackmail him as he seeks to locate his missing daughters. Read More »