Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy’s womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
John Loves Mary (1949) David Butler, Ronald Reagan, Jack Carson, Wayne Morris
A GI marries the English girlfriend of his best friend to get her into the U.S. for his friend who lost track Read More »
Fighter Squadron (1948) Raoul Walsh, Edmond O’Brien, Robert Stack, John Rodney
At an American air base in England, 1943, is conniving Sergeant Dolan Read More »
Fort Apache (1948) John Ford, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple
In John Ford’s sombre exploration mythologising of American heroes, he slowly reveals the character of Owen Thursday Read More »
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) Clarence Brown, Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall
London based American nurse, Susan, Lady Ashwood, is at the hospital awaiting the imminent arrival of injured soldiers. Read More »
Mr. Skeffington (1944) Vincent Sherman, Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
It’s 1914 in New York City. Adult brother and sister Trippy Trellis and Fanny Trellis, whose parents are now deceased, were once wealthy Read More »
Sorrowful Jones (1949) Sidney Lanfield, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Demarest
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. Read More »
The Corn Is Green (1945) Irving Rapper, Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce
Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. Read More »
Saloon Bar (1940) Walter Forde, Gordon Harker, Elizabeth Allan, Mervyn Johns
Against a background of Christmas and the pending arrival of another baby for the landlord Read More »
Unholy Partners (1941) Mervyn LeRoy, Edward G. Robinson, Laraine Day, Edward Arnold
Newspaperman Bruce Corey returns from World War I with new ideas and wants to start his own tabloid. Read More »