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Tag Archives: 1940s
All That Money Can Buy (1941) William Dieterle, Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell

A down-on-his-luck farmer makes a deal with the devil for seven years of prosperity. Read More »
Home in Indiana (1944) Henry Hathaway, Walter Brennan, Jeanne Crain, Lon McCallister

A lad with a penchant for trouble is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in Indiana. Read More »
The Boy with Green Hair (1948) Joseph Losey, Pat O’Brien, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale

Peter Frye, typical American boy, is orphaned when his parents are caught in the London Blitz. Read More »
The Caribbean Mystery (1945) Robert D. Webb, James Dunn, Sheila Ryan, Edward Ryan

The Caribbean Mystery is a remake of Mr. Moto on Danger Island (1939)-which in turn was a remake of Murder in Trinidad. Read More »
Zoya (1944) Lev Arnshtam, Galina Vodyanitskaya, Yekaterina Skvortsova, Kseniya Tarasova
Zoya is the inspirational true story of one of Russia’s most beloved national heroines. Read More »
Bad Men of Missouri (1941) Ray Enright, Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman, Wayne Morris

The Younger brothers, Cole (Dennis Morgan), Bob (Wayne Morris) and Jim (Arthur Kennedy) Read More »
Riding the Wind (1942) Edward Killy, Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Joan Barclay

It’s the ranchers whose cattle are dying of thirst versus Henry Dodge whose dam holds all the water. Read More »
Her Primitive Man (1944) Charles Lamont, Louise Allbritton, Robert Paige, Robert Benchley

A woman sets out to prove that a writer’s ideas about “savages” are wrong. Read More »
They Came by Night (1940) Harry Lachman, Will Fyffe, Phyllis Calvert, Anthony Hulme

Jeweler James Fothergill helps Scotland Yard recover a valuable ruby by worming Read More »
