
The son of a murderer is entangled in his father’s crimes and is sentenced to a rehabilitive farm, where he learns a new way of life. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Biscuit Eater (1940) Stuart Heisler, Billy Lee, Cordell Hickman, Richard Lane

Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs. Read More »
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) George Seaton

At the Macy’s Department Store Thanksgiving Day parade, the actor playing Santa is discovered to be drunk by a whiskered old man. Read More »
Counter-Attack (1945) Zoltan Korda, Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman, Larry Parks

This drama centers on a Red Army officer (Paul Muni), a Russian woman (Lisa Elenko), and seven German soldiers Read More »
Le diable au corps / Devil in the Flesh (1947) Claude Autant-Lara, Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Denise Grey

During World War I, underage student Francois Jaubert meets and falls in love with Marthe Grangier, who is engaged to Jacques, a soldier at the Front. Read More »
A Very Young Lady (1941) Harold D. Schuster, Jane Withers, Nancy Kelly, John Sutton

Tomboy is sent to finishing school where she falls for the headmaster. Read More »
Club Havana (1945) Edgar G. Ulmer, Tom Neal, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Douglas

Edgar G. Ulmer directed this film about a number of different characters unfolding love Read More »
The Hucksters (1947) Jack Conway, Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet

Victor Norman is just out of the service and looking for a job in advertising. Read More »
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) William Wyler, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March

The story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. Read More »
Hue and Cry (1947) Charles Crichton, Alastair Sim, Frederick Piper, Harry Fowler

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip’s wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. Read More »