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Tag Archives: 1940s
This England (1941) David MacDonald, Emlyn Williams, John Clements, Constance Cummings
This British- National-Anglo American production reinforces the theme that whoever assails Read More »
Lady on a Train (1945) Charles David, Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, Edward Everett Horton
While waiting at a train station, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder from a nearby building. Read More »
Born to Kill (1947) Robert Wise, Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy; it may not be the first time. Read More »
It’s a Date (1940) William A. Seiter, Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. Read More »
The Man from Colorado (1948) Henry Levin, Glenn Ford, William Holden, Ellen Drew
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. Read More »
The Shepherd of the Hills (1941) Henry Hathaway, John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey
Young Matt Masters, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt’s mother and left her to die. Read More »
Canadian Pacific (1949) Edwin L. Marin, Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, J. Carrol Naish
After finding a vital pass through the Canadian Rockies for the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway Read More »
Accomplice (1946) Walter Colmes, Richard Arlen, Veda Ann Borg, Tom Dugan
Private detective Simon Lash and his assistant Eddie Slocum are hired by Joyce Bonniwell to find her missing husband Jim Bonniwell. Read More »
City for Conquest (1940) James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven, Anatole Litvak, Jean Negulesco
Cagney is Danny Kenny, a truck driver who enters “the fight game” and Sheridan plays his girlfriend, Peggy. Read More »
Hellfire (1949) R.G. Springsteen, Bill Elliott, Marie Windsor, Forrest Tucker
Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him Read More »
The House Across The Bay (1940) Archie Mayo, George Raft, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Nolan
An aircraft designer falls for the wife of an imprisoned gangster. Read More »
The Sea Hawk (1940) Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains
Geoffrey Thorpe is an adventurous and dashing pirate, who feels that he should pirate the Spanish ships for the good of England. Read More »
Arizona (1940) Wesley Ruggles, Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine Read More »
The Big Blockade (1942) Charles Frend, Will Hay, Bernard Miles, John Stuart
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war. Read More »