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Tag Archives: 1940s
Dragon Seed (1944) Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway, Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon

Ling Tang and his family live on his prosperous farm in rural Southern China Read More »
Native Land (1942) Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand, Paul Robeson, Fred Johnson, Mary George

Paul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill Read More »
The Naughty Nineties (1945) Jean Yarbrough, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis

In the gay ’90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Read More »
Keep ‘Em Flying (1941) Arthur Lubin, Ralph Ceder, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Martha Raye

When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Read More »
Moontide (1942) Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang, Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell

After a drunken binge on the San Pablo waterfront, longshoreman Bobo fears he may have killed a man. Read More »
Larceny, Inc (1942) Lloyd Bacon, Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford

Three bumbling crooks buy a store so that they can rob the bank next door. Read More »
Brother Orchid (1940) Lloyd Bacon, Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern

Gang boss Little John Sarto returns from Europe where he was looking for “class” Read More »
The Stork Club (1945) Hal Walker, Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald, Don DeFore

A hat-check girl at the Stork Club (Hutton) saves the life of a drowning man (Fitzgerald). Read More »
Among the Living (1941) Stuart Heisler, Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Frances Farmer

Paul Raden (Albert Dekker), hopelessly insane son of Maxim Raden, hated owner of the Radentown mills Read More »