Louisa May Alcott’s autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Drunken Angel (1948) Akira Kurosawa, Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reizaburô Yamamoto
After a battle with rival criminals, a small-time gangster is treated by an alcoholic doctor in post-war Japan. Read More »
Tokyo Rose (1946) Lew Landers, Byron Barr, Osa Massen, Donald Douglas
An American prisoner-of-war in Tokyo, manages to escape and hooks up with the Japanese underground. Read More »
The Vanishing Virginian (1942) Frank Borzage, Frank Morgan, Kathryn Grayson, Spring Byington
Biography of Robert Yancey, long-term district attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia. Read More »
One Foot in Heaven (1941) Irving Rapper, Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi
In the early twentieth century, William Spence and Hope Morris Spence are a Methodist minister and his wife. Read More »
The Fan (1949) Otto Preminger, Jeanne Crain, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders, Comedy, Romance
Lord Windermere appears to all -including to his young wife Margaret – as the perfect husband. Read More »
They Met in Argentina (1941) Leslie Goodwins, Jack Hively, Maureen O’Hara, James Ellison, Alberto Vila
A Texas oil millionaire, after failing to secure oil lands in Argentina Read More »
One Exciting Night (1944) Walter Forde, Vera Lynn, Donald Stewart, Mary Clare
In wartime London, Vera gets mistaken for the girlfriend of a famous composer and invited to sing at a charity gala Read More »
That Way with Women (1947) Frederick De Cordova, Dane Clark, Martha Vickers, Sydney Greenstreet
A bored automobile industry tycoon assumes a false identity, buys a half interest in a gas station, and plays matchmaker for his daughter. Read More »
Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Myster (1941) James P. Hogan, Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin
Like the first entry in Columbia’s “Ellery Queen” series, Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. Read More »