
At the turn of the century, Duke and Chester, two vaudeville performers, go to Alaska to make their fortune. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Charterhouse of Parma AKA La chartreuse de Parme (1948) Christian-Jaque, Renée Faure, Lucien Coëdel, Louis Salou

Fabrice del Dongo, a young archbishop, gives his all to romance rather than to the Church, creating complications for everyone around. Read More »
The Singing Hill (1941) Lew Landers, Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Dale

If a young lady gives up her inheritance the local ranchers will lose their free grazing land. Read More »
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) Anatole Litvak, Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin Read More »
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

Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter Read More »