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Tag Archives: 1940s
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 »
Heart and Soul / Cuore (1948) Duilio Coletti, Vittorio De Sica, María Mercader, Giorgio De Lullo
A young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates Read More »