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Tag Archives: 1940s
Maisie Was a Lady (1941) Edwin L. Marin, Ann Sothern, Lew Ayres, Maureen O’Sullivan
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family’s new maid. Read More »
Grand Ole Opry (1940) Frank McDonald, Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Weaver
Abner Weaver, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks, through the music of performers from ‘The Grand Ole Opry,” Read More »
Women Without Names (1940) Robert Florey, Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Judith Barrett
Construction engineer Fred MacNeil meets waitress Joyce King at a hamburger stand and she accepts his invitation to see her home. Read More »
This Man’s Navy (1945) William A. Wellman, Wallace Beery, Tom Drake, James Gleason
Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery), the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his non-existent son. Read More »
A Guy Named Joe (1943) Victor Fleming, Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson
Maj. Pete Sandidge is a very able pilot who seems to have a streak of luck as far as flying goes. Read More »
Anna Lucasta (1949) Irving Rapper, Paulette Goddard, William Bishop, John Ireland
Anna Lucasta (Paulette Goddard)is disowned by her cruel father, Joe Lucasta (Oskar Homolka) Read More »
I Wanted Wings (1941) Mitchell Leisen, Ray Milland, William Holden, Wayne Morris
Story follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps — a wealthy playboy, a college jock and an auto mechanic. Read More »
Call Northside 777 (1948) Henry Hathaway, James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Read More »
Prisoner of Japan (1942) Arthur Ripley, Edgar G. Ulmer, Alan Baxter, Gertrude Michael, Ernst Deutsch
On a small tropical island in the South Pacific, David Bowman (Alan Baxter), a young American planter Read More »
The Materassi Sisters AKA Sorelle Materassi (1944) Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, Emma Gramatica, Irma Gramatica, Olga Solbelli
Teresa and Carolina are sisters, have a tailor shop and work well enough to be invited to Rome by the Pope. Read More »
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949) Preston Sturges, Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, Rudy Vallee
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. Read More »
I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943) Harold Young, Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Mary Brian
Ordered to bust convicted forger Torgut Lane (Dean Jagger) out of prison, Nazi agents deliver him to their Los Angeles hideout Read More »
We the Poor AKA Nosotros, los pobres (1948) Ismael Rodríguez, Pedro Infante, Evita Muñoz ‘Chachita’, Carmen Montejo
Two kids take a book from a trash can. They begin to read the story of a poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Read More »
They Live in Fear (1944) Josef Berne, Otto Kruger, Clifford Severn, Pat Parrish
After witnessing the killing of a professor in concentration camp “Dachau” German student Paul emigrates to the USA. Read More »