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Tag Archives: 1940s
The Golden Stallion (1949) William Witney, Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dale Evans
Diamonds are being smuggled across the border from Mexico in a specially Read More »
Opened by Mistake (1940) George Archainbaud, Charles Ruggles, Janice Logan, Robert Paige
This zany comedy-mystery gets under way when wiseguy reporter Jimmie Daniels (Robert Paige) Read More »
They Met in Bombay (1941) Clarence Brown, Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre
The best-laid plans of jewel thief Gable and lady crook Russell fall apart Read More »
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) Dudley Nichols, Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey
Eugene O’Neill’s updated version of the Oresteia. In New England, after the American Civil War Read More »
Gates of the Night / Les portes de la nuit (1946) Marcel Carné, Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand
It’s Paris in the winter after its liberation. A tramp, pretending to be Destiny Read More »
Free, Blonde and 21 (1940) Ricardo Cortez, Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Joan Davis
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. Read More »
The Lone Wolf and His Lady (1949) John Hoffman, Ron Randell, June Vincent, Alan Mowbray
Michael Lanyard aka The Lone Wolf (Ron Randell) reformed and retired jewel thief Read More »
The Fabulous Dorseys (1947) Alfred E. Green, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Janet Blair
The rise and rise of the Fabulous Dorsey brothers is charted in this whimsical step down memory lane Read More »
Weekend for Three (1941) Irving Reis, Dennis O’Keefe, Jane Wyatt, Phillip Reed
A young married couple’s weekend is disrupted by the birth of a brash Read More »