
Daniel Bone (Eddie Albert) leaves his Bowery gunsmith shop in New York City to seek his fortune in the American West Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
My Foolish Heart (1949) Mark Robson, Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, Kent Smith

After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise’s daughter Ramona. Read More »
The Army (1944) Rikugun – Keisuke Kinoshita

Kinoshita’s ambitious and intensely moving film begins as a multi-generational epic about the military legacy of one Japanese family Read More »
California (1947) John Farrow, Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, Barry Fitzgerald

“Wicked” Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. Read More »
Life with Father (1947) Michael Curtiz, William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor

In late nineteenth century New York a Wall Street broker likes to think his house runs his way Read More »
Temptation Harbour (1947) Lance Comfort, Robert Newton, Simone Simon, William Hartnell

A signalman on a quay sees a fight between two men. One of the men is deliberately pushed into the water Read More »
The Next of Kin (1942) Thorold Dickinson, Mervyn Johns, John Chandos, Nova Pilbeam

A woman’s idle remark about her son has devastating consequences when she is overheard by a nazi spy. Read More »
That Hamilton Woman (1941) Alexander Korda, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray

Sir William Hamilton, a widower of mature years, is British ambassador to the Court of Naples. Read More »
Honeymoon Deferred (1940) Lew Landers, Edmund Lowe, Margaret Lindsay, Elisabeth Risdon

Edmund Lowe plays an insurance investigator who interrupts his honeymoon to look into the case of a murder Read More »
Gaslight (1944) – George Cukor

After the death of her famous opera-singing aunt, Paula Alquist (Ingrid Bergman) is sent to study in Italy to become a great opera singer as well. Read More »