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Tag Archives: 1940s
Sister Kenny (1946) Dudley Nichols, Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger

Elizabeth Kenny, as a young nurse out in the Australian bush discovers an effective treatment for polio Read More »
Mexican Spitfires Elephant (1942) Leslie Goodwins, Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Walter Reed

A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette Read More »
Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) Robert Wise, Simone Simon, John Emery, Kurt Kreuger

One of the few failures for RKO Radio’s resident “prestige programmer” producer Val Lewton Read More »
Dual Alibi (1947) Alfred Travers, Herbert Lom, Phyllis Dixey, Terence de Marney

Twin trapezists fall out over a lottery ticket and a worthless woman, but later extract a unique revenge. Read More »
Larceny in Her Heart (1946) Sam Newfield, Hugh Beaumont, Cheryl Walker, Ralph Dunn

In the second of the PRC “Michael Shayne” series,civic crusader Burton Stallings Read More »
Murder Is My Business (1946) Sam Newfield, Hugh Beaumont, Cheryl Walker, Lyle Talbot

Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Read More »
Once a Jolly Swagman (1949) Jack Lee, Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Bill Owen

Factory worker Bill Fox (Sir Dirk Bogarde) is fired from a reliable job and becomes a successful motorbike racer Read More »
Three Little Girls in Blue (1946) H. Bruce Humberstone, June Haver, George Montgomery, Vivian Blaine

A reworking of the movie Three Blind Mice (1938) based on the play of the same name Read More »
Lisbon Story (1946) Paul L. Stein, Patricia Burke, David Farrar, Walter Rilla

A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist. Read More »