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Tag Archives: 1940s
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 »
Holiday / Jour de fête (1949) Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur

Once a year the fair comes for one day to the little town ‘Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre’. Read More »
Mashenka (1942) Yuli Raizman, Valentina Karavayeva, Mikhail Kuznetsov, D. Pankratova

In 1939, as the air raid sirens sound over Moscow, a young man, Alyosha Read More »
Freedom Radio (1941) Anthony Asquith, Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Raymond Huntley

Hitler’s doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn’t as good as it pretends Read More »
Here Comes Kelly (1943) William Beaudine, Eddie Quillan, Joan Woodbury, Maxie Rosenbloom

Because of his hot, often-flaring temper, Jimmy Kelly loses another job Read More »
The Crooked Road (1940) Phil Rosen, Edmund Lowe, Irene Hervey, Henry Wilcoxon

A blackmail threat from an old prison buddy compels a man who has gone straight to consider yet another crime. Read More »
T-Men (1947) Anthony Mann, Dennis O’Keefe, Wallace Ford, Alfred Ryder

When the American Treasure Department finds that a gang in Los Angeles Read More »
Street Acquaintances / Straßenbekanntschaft (1948) Peter Pewas, Gisela Trowe, Alice Treff, Ursula Voß

Erika is 20 lives with her strict parents in a post-war apartment Read More »