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Tag Archives: 1940s
Joe Palooka in The Counterpunch (1949) Reginald Le Borg, Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood Jr., Elyse Knox

Joe Palooka kayos Cardona, but the latter protests that he can beat the champ in his own country – South America. Read More »
Secret Service Investigator (1948) R.G. Springsteen, Lynne Roberts, Lloyd Bridges, George Zucco

Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks. Read More »
Public Deb No. 1 (1940) Gregory Ratoff, George Murphy, Brenda Joyce, Ralph Bellamy

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally Read More »
Sons Of The Sea / Atlantic Ferry (1941) Walter Forde, Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Griffith Jones

In 1840 two rival steamship companies race to see who should have the best cargo between England and America. Read More »
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949) Elliott Nugent, Clifton Webb, Shirley Temple, Tom Drake

Clifton Webb recreates his Sitting Pretty role as Mr. Lynn Belvedere, the World’s Greatest Genius. Read More »
I Married an Angel (1942) W.S. Van Dyke, Roy Del Ruth, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Edward Everett Horton

Anna Zador is a secretary who’s been working for 6 years at Count Willie Palaffi’s bank. Read More »
Michigan Kid (1947) Ray Taylor, Jon Hall, Victor McLaglen, Rita Johnson

Jim Rowan, after his discharge from the U.S. Calvary at the end of the Sioux Wars Read More »
Sagebrush Law (1943) Sam Nelson, Tim Holt, Cliff Edwards, Joan Barclay

Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father’s death a suicide, sees the gun is in the wrong hand. Read More »
The Winter of Three Hairs / San Mao liu lang ji (1949) Gong Yan, Ming Zhao, Mo Cheng, Longji Wang, Long Gongboan

San mao was an orphan in old Shanghai. He ate poster paste, slept in garbage truck, kept warm in ragged sacks in winter. Read More »