
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman(Deanna Durbin) attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Road of War AKA Taistelun tie (1940) Risto Orko, Hilkka Helinä, Kyösti Kallio, Turo Kartto

The film presented the background of the war, the war itself and the reconstruction work begun right after the war. Read More »
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Frank Capra, James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore

George Bailey has spent his entire life giving of himself to the people of Bedford Falls. Read More »
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

In Budapest, Hungary, the Matuschek and Company store is owned by Mr. Hugo Matuschek Read More »
Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948) John Paddy Carstairs, Jean Kent, Albert Lieven, Derrick De Marney

Spies steal a diary from an embassy whose contents could ignite a war, then one of them steals Read More »
The Descendants of Taro Urashima / Urashima Tarô no kôei (1946) Mikio Naruse, Susumu Fujita, Nobuo Nakamura, Haruko Sugimura

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier Read More »
Two in a Taxi (1941) Robert Florey, Anita Louise, Russell Hayden, Noah Beery Jr.

Jimmy Owens (Russell Hayden) is a driver for a taxicab-fleet trying to scrape together $300.00 in order to buy a small Read More »
The Falcon’s Brother (1942) Stanley Logan, George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph

Gay Lawrence, amateur detective known as The Falcon, learns that his brother Tom Read More »
Chinatown at Midnight (1949) Seymour Friedman, Hurd Hatfield, Jean Willes, Tom Powers

Clifford Ward is a thief working San Francisco’s Chinatown district, and his stolen goods are fenced through an interior-decorators shop ran by Lisa Marcel. Read More »
The Curse of the Wraydons (1946) Victor M. Gover, Bruce Seton, Henry Caine, Pearl Cameron

Based on a “famous” play , Spring-Heeled Jack or The Terror of London by Maurice Sandoz. Read More »