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Tag Archives: 1940s
Unfinished Business (1941) Gregory La Cava, Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery, Preston Foster

Small town girl meets and falls for a playboy type on a train to New York. Read More »
Night in New Orleans (1942) William Clemens, Preston Foster, Patricia Morison, Albert Dekker

The police lieutenant Steve Abbott is engrossed in a baffling murder case. Read More »
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow / Zwischen gestern und morgen (1947) Harald Braun, Hildegard Knef, Winnie Markus, Sybille Schmitz

A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel Read More »
San Francisco Docks (1940) Arthur Lubin, Burgess Meredith, Irene Hervey, Barry Fitzgerald

Longshoreman Johnny Barnes (Burgess Meredith) is in love with Kitty Tracy (Irene Hervey) Read More »
Tough As They Come (1942) William Nigh, Billy Halop, Paul Kelly, Helen Parrish

This entry in Universal’s “Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys” series is minus “The Little Tough Guys” Read More »
The Big Street (1942) Irving Reis, Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Barton MacLane

Little Pinks is in love with a nightclub singer named Gloria. But it is a unrequited love as she does not know that he exists. Read More »
Corvette K-225 (1943) Richard Rosson, Howard Hawks, Randolph Scott, James Brown, Ella Raines

In 1943, ‘Mac’ MacClain, Canadian Navy, has lost his ship and many men to a German torpedo. Read More »
Torment AKA Hets (1944) Alf Sjöberg, Stig Järrel, Alf Kjellin, Mai Zetterling

Jan-Erik Widgren is a high-school senior. His Latin teacher, Caligula, is feared by everybody, both teachers and students. Read More »
The Mask of Diijon (1946) Lew Landers, Erich von Stroheim, Jeanne Bates, William Wright

A magician neglects his career and his wife while he pursues the study of hypnosis. Read More »