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Tag Archives: 1940s
Headlights in the Fog AKA Fari nella nebbia (1942) Gianni Franciolini, Fosco Giachetti, Luisa Ferida, Antonio Centa
A lorry driver, deserted by his wife, falls for another woman who also betrays him. Read More »
Strange Holiday (1945) Arch Oboler, Claude Rains, Bob Stebbins, Barbara Bate
Businessman John Stevenson returns from a camping holiday in the mountains to discover the whole of America has been taken over by foreign invaders. Read More »
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942) Irving Pichel, Monty Woolley, Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas Read More »
Singapore (1947) John Brahm, Fred MacMurray, Ava Gardner, Roland Culver
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Read More »
Fog Island (1945) Terry O. Morse, George Zucco, Lionel Atwill, Jerome Cowan
Leo, a former convict, is living in seclusion on an island with his step-daughter, the daughter of his late wife. Read More »
The Naked City (1948) Jules Dassin, Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter Read More »
Le 6 juin à l’aube (1946) Jean Grémillon
The film starts by a visit to bucolic Normandy before the events. Read More »
The Doughgirls (1944) James V. Kern, Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson
Arthur and Vivian are just married, but when the get to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., they find it occupied. Read More »
Deep Valley (1947) Jean Negulesco, Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Wayne Morris
Uneducated and poor, Libby lives a sheltered life in a broken down shack with her unloving parents. Read More »