
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
My Reputation (1946) Curtis Bernhardt, Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Warner Anderson

Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Read More »
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) Max Ophüls, Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians

In Vienna, about 1900, a dashing man arrives at his flat, instructing his manservant that Read More »
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944) Preston Sturges, Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn

Trudy Kockenlocker, a small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers Read More »
Claudia and David (1946) Walter Lang, Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Mary Astor

The follow-up to the hit film “Claudia” (1943) finds the title character (Dorothy McGuire) Read More »
The Fortress / La forteresse (1947) Fyodor Otsep, Paul Dupuis, Jacques Auger, Nicole Germain

After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car Read More »
Berlin Correspondent (1942) Eugene Forde, Virginia Gilmore, Dana Andrews, Mona Maris

Dana Andrews plays Bill Roberts, an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Read More »
The Big Shot (1942) Lewis Seiler, Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis

Three time loser Duke Berne risks life in prison with one more armored car robbery. Read More »
Forever and a Day (1943) Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, George Kirby, Doreen Munroe, May Beatty

During World War II an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. Read More »
Star Dust (1940) Walter Lang, Linda Darnell, John Payne, Roland Young

Carolyn Sayres gets a Hollywood contract from talent scout Brooke but is later rejected because she’s too young. Read More »