
Teresa and Carolina are sisters, have a tailor shop and work well enough to be invited to Rome by the Pope. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949) Preston Sturges, Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, Rudy Vallee

Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. Read More »
I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943) Harold Young, Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Mary Brian

Ordered to bust convicted forger Torgut Lane (Dean Jagger) out of prison, Nazi agents deliver him to their Los Angeles hideout Read More »
We the Poor AKA Nosotros, los pobres (1948) Ismael Rodríguez, Pedro Infante, Evita Muñoz ‘Chachita’, Carmen Montejo

Two kids take a book from a trash can. They begin to read the story of a poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Read More »
They Live in Fear (1944) Josef Berne, Otto Kruger, Clifford Severn, Pat Parrish

After witnessing the killing of a professor in concentration camp “Dachau” German student Paul emigrates to the USA. Read More »
Princess O’Rourke (1943) Norman Krasna, Olivia de Havilland, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn

Poor Princess Maria is visiting New York, but she’s not having any fun. So her uncle suggests she spend a few days in San Francisco. Read More »
Days of Glory AKA Giorni di gloria (1945) Giuseppe De Santis, Umberto Barbaro, Umberto Calosso, Donato Carretta

The film shows the life of the antifascist partisans, the events that led to the liberation of Rome Read More »
Northwest Rangers (1942) Joseph M. Newman, James Craig, William Lundigan, Patricia Dane

Boyhood friends grow up into different professions, one a dedicated Royal Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious if well liked gambler. Read More »
The Great Mr. Nobody (1941) Benjamin Stoloff, Eddie Albert, Joan Leslie, Alan Hale

Perpetual-optimist “Dreamy” Smith aspires to quit his job as newspaper publicity drudge and sail the world. Read More »
The Creeper (1948) Jean Yarbrough, Eduardo Ciannelli, Onslow Stevens, June Vincent

Two scientists on an expedition to the West Indies discover a serum which changes humans into cats, or at least, to catlike killers. Read More »