Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker’s assistant. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
A Night in Casablanca (1946) Archie Mayo, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
In post-war Casablanca, Ronald Kornblow is hired to run a hotel whose previous managers have all wound up being murdered. Read More »
Three Wise Fools (1946) Edward Buzzell, Margaret O’Brien, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone
It had been forty years since Richard, James and Theodore insulted The O’Monahan and he put a vexing blessing on them. Read More »
Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948) Byron Haskin, Sabu, Wendell Corey, Joy Page
A doctor hunts a vicious, man-eating tiger that terrorizes a native jungle village. Read More »
The Great Dictator (1940) Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie
20 years after the end of WWI, in which the nation of Tomainia was on the losing side Read More »
My Learned Friend (1943) Basil Dearden, Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Read More »
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) Anatole Litvak, Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards
Leona Stevenson is sick and confined to her bed. One night, whilst waiting for her husband to return home, she picks up the phone Read More »
Lighthouse (1947) Frank Wisbar, Don Castle, June Lang, John Litel
Looks like the film that might have inspired Hugo Hass to make one like it twice a year in the early fifties. Read More »
Not Wanted (1949) Elmer Clifton, Ida Lupino, Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Leo Penn
Twentyish Sally Kelton is unhappy at home and in the drab town in which she lives, until she meets roving musician Steve Ryan. Read More »
A Shot in the Dark (1941) William C. McGann, William Lundigan, Nan Wynn, Ricardo Cortez
Phil Richards is selling his nightclub to an out-of-town buyer, and the local mob express this dissatisfaction with the arrangement. Read More »