A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947) Lew Landers, Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli
Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter. Read More »
The Sullivans (1944) Lloyd Bacon, Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle
The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II Read More »
Actress / Joyu (1947) Teinosuke Kinugasa, Isuzu Yamada, Michiko Araki, Eitarô Shindô
Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought Read More »
The Lady Eve (1941) Preston Sturges, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. Read More »
Frenchman’s Creek (1944) Mitchell Leisen, Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone
An English lady bored with London society brings her 2 children to their country home. Read More »
The Lone Wolf in London (1947) Leslie Goodwins, Gerald Mohr, Nancy Saunders, Eric Blore
Michael Lanyard (Gerald Mohr) is suspected of stealing two fabulous diamonds from a vault in Scotland Yard Read More »
Counter-Espionage (1942) Edward Dmytryk, Warren William, Eric Blore, Hillary Brooke
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing. Read More »
The Silver Darlings (1947) Clarence Elder, Norman Williams, Christopher Capon, Murdo Morrison
A harsh if ultimately optimistic depiction of life in the unforgiving Hebrides Read More »
Trottie True (1949) Brian Desmond Hurst, Jean Kent, James Donald, Hugh Sinclair
In the 1890s, Trottie True moves from bit theatre parts to stardom, and from balloonist Sid Skinner to more prominent men. Read More »