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Tag Archives: 1940s
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940) Lynn Shores, Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, C. Henry Gordon
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. Read More »
Summer Storm (1944) Douglas Sirk, Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Anna Lee
In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor Read More »
The Damned AKA Les maudits (1947) René Clément, Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly
Oslo, April 19th 1945, as the Third Reich is living its last days, a group of Nazis and sympathizers Read More »
Strange Victory (1948) Leo Hurwitz, Alfred Drake, Muriel Smith, Gary Merrill
“Strange Victory” is about racial bias in post World War II America. Read More »
A Woman’s Secret (1949) Nicholas Ray, Maureen O’Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame
Susan is in the hospital with a bullet near her heart. Marian has told the police that she shot Susan in a rage as Susan was giving up singing. Read More »
The Missing Lady (1946) Phil Karlson, Kane Richmond, Barbara Read, George Chandler
A jade statue, the “missing lady”, is stolen and its owner killed. Read More »
The Jolson Story (1946) Alfred E. Green, Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest
This movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson Read More »
The Crooked Way (1949) Robert Florey, John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew
A World War II veteran, suffering from amnesia but otherwise healthy, is released from a veteran’s hospital Read More »
The Idiot AKA L’idiot (1946) Georges Lampin, Edwige Feuillère, Lucien Coëdel, Jean Debucourt
Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution Read More »