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Tag Archives: 1940s
Danger Woman (1946) Lewis D. Collins, Don Porter, Brenda Joyce, Patricia Morison
An atomic scientist who was one of the brains behind the A-bomb is now working in private life Read More »
Ladies in Retirement (1941) Charles Vidor, Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes
In the late nineteenth century, Ellen Creed works as the live-in companion to Miss Leonora Fiske Read More »
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Victor Fleming, Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone. Experiments reveal his evil side, named Hyde. Read More »
The Red Shoes (1948) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer
Under the authoritarian rule of charismatic ballet impressario Boris Lermontov Read More »
Two Sisters from Boston (1946) Henry Koster, Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, Lauritz Melchior
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she’s a successful opera singer in New York. Read More »
Totò le mokò (1949) Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Totò, Gianna Maria Canale, Carla Calò
The mobster Pep le Mok dies during a shootout with the police. Read More »
Faithful in My Fashion (1946) Sidney Salkow, Donna Reed, Tom Drake, Edward Everett Horton
A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. Read More »
The Flame of New Orleans (1941) René Clair, Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young
French farce comes to the New World in 1840 as Claire Ledoux convinces the middle-aged banker Read More »
My Crimes After Mein Kampf (1940) Alexandre Ryder, Roger Karl, Line Noro, Pierre Labry
The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939). Read More »