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Tag Archives: 1940s
Railroaded! (1947) Anthony Mann, John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont
Sexy beautician Clara Calhoun, who has a bookie operation in her back room, connives with her boyfriend Read More »
The Great Dictator (1940) Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie
20 years after the end of WWI, in which the nation of Tomainia was on the losing side Read More »
My Learned Friend (1943) Basil Dearden, Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Read More »
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) Anatole Litvak, Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards
Leona Stevenson is sick and confined to her bed. One night, whilst waiting for her husband to return home, she picks up the phone Read More »
Lighthouse (1947) Frank Wisbar, Don Castle, June Lang, John Litel
Looks like the film that might have inspired Hugo Hass to make one like it twice a year in the early fifties. Read More »
Not Wanted (1949) Elmer Clifton, Ida Lupino, Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Leo Penn
Twentyish Sally Kelton is unhappy at home and in the drab town in which she lives, until she meets roving musician Steve Ryan. Read More »
A Shot in the Dark (1941) William C. McGann, William Lundigan, Nan Wynn, Ricardo Cortez
Phil Richards is selling his nightclub to an out-of-town buyer, and the local mob express this dissatisfaction with the arrangement. Read More »
Holiday Camp (1947) Ken Annakin, Flora Robson, Dennis Price, Jack Warner
Mr. and Mrs. Average British Family…if the average British family consists of a husband Read More »
Rookies in Burma (1943) Leslie Goodwins, Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Erford Gage
Even in the jungles of Burma, U.S. Army Privates Jerry Miles (Wally Brown), and Mike Strager Read More »
The Woman on the Beach (1947) Jean Renoir, Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford
Scott, a troubled Coast Guardsman assigned to a fog-bound station on a remote stretch of beach Read More »
Strangler of the Swamp (1946) Frank Wisbar, Rosemary La Planche, Robert Barrat, Blake Edwards
A number of swamp land men have died by strangulation Read More »
Two Thousand Women (1944) Frank Launder, Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson, Patricia Roc
Women in a French concentration camp conceal downed British airmen from Nazi soldiers, and try to help them escape. Read More »
In Which We Serve (1942) Noël Coward, David Lean, John Mills, Bernard Miles
In the midst of World War II, the renowned playwright Noël Coward engaged a young film editor named David Read More »
Hans le marin AKA Wicked City (1949) François Villiers, Maria Montez, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Lilli Palmer
When his freighter pulls into Marseille, Canadian seaman Eric Martin falls in love with Dolores Read More »