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Tag Archives: 1940s
Confidential Agent (1945) Herman Shumlin, Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Victor Francen
During the Spanish Civil War, a republican courier travels to England to try and buy coal. Read More »
The Tender Years (1948) Harold D. Schuster, Joe E. Brown, Richard Lyon, Noreen Nash
The first of the Edward L. Alperson “Alson Productions” for 20th Century-Fox distribution, featuring the return to the screen Read More »
How Green Was My Valley (1941) John Ford, Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Anna Lee
Life is hard in a Welsh mining town and no less so for the Morgan family. Read More »
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943) James P. Hogan, Ludwig Donath, Gale Sondergaard, George Dolenz
A clerk in 1942 Vienna who has a gift for mimicry, is arrested for doing a Hitler impression. Read More »
Action in Arabia (1944) Léonide Moguy, George Sanders, Virginia Bruce, Lenore Aubert
Michael Gordon, star reporter with a nose for trouble, is heading home after completing a difficult assignment in Iraq. Read More »
Look Who’s Laughing (1941) Allan Dwan, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Jim Jordan
Several popular radio personalities converge in the RKO Radio “comedy salad” Look Who’s Laughing. Read More »
Dr. Gillespie’s New Assistant (1942) Willis Goldbeck, Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Susan Peters
Dr. Gillespie’s health is failing, and the hospital is urging him to get a new assistant that he doesn’t want. Read More »
Incendiary Blonde (1945) George Marshall, Betty Hutton, Arturo de Córdova, Charles Ruggles
The life of boisterous entertainer Texas Guinan is recalled from her poor childhood with a down-on-his-luck father Read More »
The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) William Keighley, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin
Oil heiress Joan is going to elope with bandleader Allen whom she’s known four days. Read More »
Rage in Heaven (1941) W.S. Van Dyke, Robert B. Sinclair, Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders
Old friends Ward and Phillip both become smitten with Phillip’s mother’s attractive young secretary Stella. Read More »
The Lost Weekend (1945) Billy Wilder, Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry
Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been “on the wagon” for ten days and seems to be over the worst Read More »
Scott of the Antarctic (1948) Charles Frend, John Mills, Derek Bond, Diana Churchill
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man Read More »
Adventures of Don Juan (1948) Vincent Sherman, Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas
Don Juan de Marana damages Spanish prestige in diplomatic circles with his indiscreet womanizing Read More »
Desperate Journey (1942) Raoul Walsh, Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Coleman
When Flight Lt Forbes and his crew are shot down after bombing their target Read More »