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Tag Archives: 1940s
Second Chance (1947) James Tinling, Kent Taylor, Louise Currie, Dennis Hoey

Joan Summers (Louise Currie) enters the office of jewel merchant Montclaire Read More »
Man of Courage (1943) Alexis Thurn-Taxis, Barton MacLane, Charlotte Wynters, Lyle Talbot

John Wallace is a crusading district attorney. The mob boss George Dickson is his number one target. Read More »
The Hat Box Mystery (1947) Lambert Hillyer, Tom Neal, Pamela Blake, Allen Jenkins

Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed Read More »
Paris After Dark (1943) Léonide Moguy, George Sanders, Philip Dorn, Brenda Marshall

Members of the French underground resistance, live their “normal” lives during the day Read More »
Down to the Sea in Ships (1949) Henry Hathaway, Richard Widmark, Lionel Barrymore, Dean Stockwell

At the end of the 19th century, Massachusetts whaling ship captain Bering Joy takes his grandson Jed on a whaling expedition. Read More »
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) Richard Whorf, Robert Walker, Van Heflin, Lucille Bremer

Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs Read More »
Melody for Three (1941) Erle C. Kenton, Jean Hersholt, Fay Wray, Walter Woolf King

Dr. Christian takes an interest in a young boy, a violin prodigy, whose mother is a divorced music teacher. Read More »
Once Upon a Time (1944) Alexander Hall, Cary Grant, Janet Blair, James Gleason

A cash-strapped theater producer promotes a nine-year-old boy’s dancing caterpillar. Read More »
The Purple Heart (1944) Lewis Milestone, Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger

This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Read More »