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Tag Archives: 1940s
Knute Rockne All American (1940) Lloyd Bacon, William K. Howard, Pat O’Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan

Lars Rockne and his family, including his four year old son Knute, emigrate to Chicago in 1892 from their native Norway. Read More »
The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947) George S. Kaufman, William Powell, Ella Raines, Peter Lind Hayes

Dim-witted blowhard, Melvin G. Ashton, is a US Senator who wants to be President. Read More »
Santa Fe Trail (1940) Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey

The story of Jeb Stuart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer Read More »
It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) Richard Whorf, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford

Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. Read More »
Vasilisa the Beautiful AKA Vasilisa prekrasnaya (1940) Aleksandr Rou, Georgiy Millyar, Sergei Stolyarov, Lev Potyomkin

Based on a Russian folk tale, Vasilisa Prekrasnaya (Vasilisa the Beautiful) is about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. Read More »
Thundering Hoofs (1942) Lesley Selander, Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Lee ‘Lasses’ White

Bill Underwood (Tim Holt) falls out with his father (Gordon DeMain) and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge of his father’s stage line. Read More »
Fighting Frontier (1943) Lambert Hillyer, Tim Holt, Cliff Edwards, Ann Summers

Kit Russell, appointed special investigator, has infiltrated a local robber gang ostensibly led by Snap Read More »
The Arizona Ranger (1948) John Rawlins, Tim Holt, Jack Holt, Nan Leslie

Bob Morgan returns home but alienates his father by not staying at his ranch. Read More »
Love on the Dole (1941) John Baxter, Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney

Filmed in the North Country of England, this is a film noir set in the 1930s as a family struggles with poverty and unemployment. Read More »