The story begins in 1929 with Sugai (Sugai Ichiro) losing his job in the stock- market crash. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Case of the Baby Sitter (1947) Lambert Hillyer, Tom Neal, Pamela Blake, Allen Jenkins
Jewel thieves, operating under the guises of a Duke and a Duchess, hire the Ace Detective Agency Read More »
Knute Rockne All American (1940) Lloyd Bacon, William K. Howard, Pat O’Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan
Lars Rockne and his family, including his four year old son Knute, emigrate to Chicago in 1892 from their native Norway. Read More »
The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947) George S. Kaufman, William Powell, Ella Raines, Peter Lind Hayes
Dim-witted blowhard, Melvin G. Ashton, is a US Senator who wants to be President. Read More »
Santa Fe Trail (1940) Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey
The story of Jeb Stuart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer Read More »
It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) Richard Whorf, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford
Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. Read More »
Vasilisa the Beautiful AKA Vasilisa prekrasnaya (1940) Aleksandr Rou, Georgiy Millyar, Sergei Stolyarov, Lev Potyomkin
Based on a Russian folk tale, Vasilisa Prekrasnaya (Vasilisa the Beautiful) is about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. Read More »
Thundering Hoofs (1942) Lesley Selander, Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Lee ‘Lasses’ White
Bill Underwood (Tim Holt) falls out with his father (Gordon DeMain) and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge of his father’s stage line. Read More »
Fighting Frontier (1943) Lambert Hillyer, Tim Holt, Cliff Edwards, Ann Summers
Kit Russell, appointed special investigator, has infiltrated a local robber gang ostensibly led by Snap Read More »
The Arizona Ranger (1948) John Rawlins, Tim Holt, Jack Holt, Nan Leslie
Bob Morgan returns home but alienates his father by not staying at his ranch. Read More »
Love on the Dole (1941) John Baxter, Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney
Filmed in the North Country of England, this is a film noir set in the 1930s as a family struggles with poverty and unemployment. Read More »
Passkey to Danger (1946) Lesley Selander, Kane Richmond, Stephanie Bachelor, Adele Mara
Tex Hanlon is some kind of advertising man who comes up with a concept for a women’s clothing campaign called THE THREE SPRINGS. Read More »
Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943) H. Bruce Humberstone, Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time Read More »
The Millerson Case (1947) George Archainbaud, Warner Baxter, Nancy Saunders, Clem Bevans
In the 8th film of Columbia’s “Crime Doctor” series, Dr. Robert Ordway is vacationing in the Blue Ridge Mountains Read More »
Nabonga (1944) Sam Newfield, Buster Crabbe, Fifi D’Orsay, Barton MacLane
In an effort to clear the name of his deceased father, young Ray Gorman travels to darkest Africa Read More »