Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Margie (1946) Henry King, Jeanne Crain, Glenn Langan, Lynn Bari
Margie and her daughter reminisce about Margie’s girlhood in the roaring twenties. Read More »
True to Life (1943) George Marshall, Mary Martin, Franchot Tone, Dick Powell
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. Read More »
The Day Will Dawn AKA The Avengers (1942) Harold French, Hugh Williams, Griffith Jones, Deborah Kerr
Horse race tipster and journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. Read More »
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 »