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Tag Archives: 1940s
Entre onze heures et minuit AKA Between Eleven and Midnight (1949) Henri Decoin, Louis Jouvet, Madeleine Robinson, Léo Lapara
Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot dead whilst walking in a subway in Paris. Read More »
The Voice of the Turtle (1947) Irving Rapper, Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden
Budding actress Sally Middleton agrees to a date with Bill Page, a soldier on a weekend pass, after he’s stood up by her worldly friend, Olive. Read More »
Au royaume des cieux AKA The Sinners (1949) Julien Duvivier, Serge Reggiani, Jean Davy, Monique Mélinand
Story takes place in a dreadful girls’ reformatory. Read More »
The Penalty (1941) Harold S. Bucquet, Edward Arnold, Lionel Barrymore, Marsha Hunt
The son of a murderer is entangled in his father’s crimes and is sentenced to a rehabilitive farm, where he learns a new way of life. Read More »
The Biscuit Eater (1940) Stuart Heisler, Billy Lee, Cordell Hickman, Richard Lane
Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs. Read More »
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) George Seaton, Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Hara, John Payne
At the Macy’s Department Store Thanksgiving Day parade, the actor playing Santa is discovered to be drunk by a whiskered old man. Read More »
Counter-Attack (1945) Zoltan Korda, Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman, Larry Parks
This drama centers on a Red Army officer (Paul Muni), a Russian woman (Lisa Elenko), and seven German soldiers Read More »
Le diable au corps AKA Devil in the Flesh (1947) Claude Autant-Lara, Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Denise Grey
During World War I, underage student Francois Jaubert meets and falls in love with Marthe Grangier, who is engaged to Jacques, a soldier at the Front. Read More »
A Very Young Lady (1941) Harold D. Schuster, Jane Withers, Nancy Kelly, John Sutton
Tomboy is sent to finishing school where she falls for the headmaster. Read More »
Club Havana (1945) Edgar G. Ulmer, Tom Neal, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Douglas
Edgar G. Ulmer directed this film about a number of different characters unfolding love Read More »
The Hucksters (1947) Jack Conway, Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet
Victor Norman is just out of the service and looking for a job in advertising. Read More »
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) William Wyler, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March
The story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. Read More »
Hue and Cry (1947) Charles Crichton, Alastair Sim, Frederick Piper, Harry Fowler
A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip’s wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. Read More »
The Southerner (1945) Jean Renoir, Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. Read More »