Horse race tipster and journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
School for Secrets AKA Secret Flight (1946) Peter Ustinov, Ralph Richardson, Raymond Huntley, John Laurie
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. Read More »
The Dummy Talks (1943) Oswald Mitchell, Jack Warner, Claude Hulbert, Beryl Orde
A ventriloquist is murdered, leaving a show to be done. So, a midget goes undercover as the dummy. Read More »
Brewster’s Millions (1945) Allan Dwan, Dennis O’Keefe, Helen Walker, June Havoc
Monty Brewster is a penniless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million Read More »
Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942) Henry Hathaway, George Montgomery, Maureen O’Hara, John Sutton
Among those who are fighting to have Congress re-establish the military academy at West Point Read More »
Cynthia (1947) Robert Z. Leonard, Elizabeth Taylor, George Murphy, S.Z. Sakall
Taylor plays the title character, a sickly, sheltered young lady who is never permitted the companionship of other teenagers. Read More »
I’ve Always Loved You (1946) Frank Borzage, Philip Dorn, Catherine McLeod, Bill Carter
A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home. Read More »
A Dispatch from Reuters (1940) William Dieterle, Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert
Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter Read More »
The Marriage of Chiffon (1942) Le mariage de Chiffon
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called “Chiffon”, who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. Read More »
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) Norman Taurog, Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. Read More »