London based American nurse, Susan, Lady Ashwood, is at the hospital awaiting the imminent arrival of injured soldiers. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Mr. Skeffington (1944) Vincent Sherman, Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
It’s 1914 in New York City. Adult brother and sister Trippy Trellis and Fanny Trellis, whose parents are now deceased, were once wealthy Read More »
The Spring River Flows East AKA Yi jiang chun shui xiang dong liu (1947) Chusheng Cai, Junli Zheng, Yang Bai, Tao Jin, Yang Nai
1930’s China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. Read More »
Sorrowful Jones (1949) Sidney Lanfield, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Demarest
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. Read More »
The Corn Is Green (1945) Irving Rapper, Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce
Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. Read More »
Saloon Bar (1940) Walter Forde, Gordon Harker, Elizabeth Allan, Mervyn Johns
Against a background of Christmas and the pending arrival of another baby for the landlord Read More »
Unholy Partners (1941) Mervyn LeRoy, Edward G. Robinson, Laraine Day, Edward Arnold
Newspaperman Bruce Corey returns from World War I with new ideas and wants to start his own tabloid. Read More »
Night and Day (1946) Michael Curtiz, Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley
The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s. Read More »
The Falcon’s Adventure (1946) William Berke, Tom Conway, Madge Meredith, Edward Brophy
The Falcon rescues Louisa Braganza from kidnappers who want her father’s secret formula for making diamonds. Read More »
The Falcon’s Alibi (1946) Ray McCarey, Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Vince Barnett
A wealthy woman’s secretary, fearing that she will be blamed if her employer’s jewelry is stolen, hires the Falcon as guardian. Read More »
Unfinished Business (1941) Gregory La Cava, Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery, Preston Foster
Small town girl meets and falls for a playboy type on a train to New York. Read More »
Night in New Orleans (1942) William Clemens, Preston Foster, Patricia Morison, Albert Dekker
The police lieutenant Steve Abbott is engrossed in a baffling murder case. Read More »
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow AKA Zwischen gestern und morgen (1947) Harald Braun, Hildegard Knef, Winnie Markus, Sybille Schmitz
A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel Read More »
Sis Hopkins (1941) Joseph Santley, Judy Canova, Bob Crosby, Charles Butterworth
A young girl from the “sticks” comes to the city to live with her wealthy relatives. Read More »
San Francisco Docks (1940) Arthur Lubin, Burgess Meredith, Irene Hervey, Barry Fitzgerald
Longshoreman Johnny Barnes (Burgess Meredith) is in love with Kitty Tracy (Irene Hervey) Read More »