
During the Spanish Civil War, a republican courier travels to England to try and buy coal. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Tender Years (1948) Harold D. Schuster, Joe E. Brown, Richard Lyon, Noreen Nash

The first of the Edward L. Alperson “Alson Productions” for 20th Century-Fox distribution, featuring the return to the screen Read More »
How Green Was My Valley (1941) John Ford, Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Anna Lee

Life is hard in a Welsh mining town and no less so for the Morgan family. Read More »
Action in Arabia (1944) Léonide Moguy, George Sanders, Virginia Bruce, Lenore Aubert

Michael Gordon, star reporter with a nose for trouble, is heading home after completing a difficult assignment in Iraq. Read More »
Look Who’s Laughing (1941) Allan Dwan, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Jim Jordan

Several popular radio personalities converge in the RKO Radio “comedy salad” Look Who’s Laughing. Read More »
Dr. Gillespie’s New Assistant (1942) Willis Goldbeck, Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Susan Peters

Dr. Gillespie’s health is failing, and the hospital is urging him to get a new assistant that he doesn’t want. Read More »
Incendiary Blonde (1945) George Marshall, Betty Hutton, Arturo de Córdova, Charles Ruggles

The life of boisterous entertainer Texas Guinan is recalled from her poor childhood with a down-on-his-luck father Read More »
The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) William Keighley, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin

Oil heiress Joan is going to elope with bandleader Allen whom she’s known four days. Read More »
Rage in Heaven (1941) W.S. Van Dyke, Robert B. Sinclair, Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders

Old friends Ward and Phillip both become smitten with Phillip’s mother’s attractive young secretary Stella. Read More »
The Lost Weekend (1945) Billy Wilder, Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry

Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been “on the wagon” for ten days and seems to be over the worst Read More »