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Tag Archives: 1940s
Whisky Galore! (1949) Alexander Mackendrick, Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Catherine Lacey
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 – during WWII – was S/S Politician. Read More »
The House on 92nd Street (1945) Henry Hathaway, William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso
Preface: a stentorian narrator tells us that the USA was flooded with Nazi spies in 1939-41. Read More »
The Black Parachute (1944) Lew Landers, John Carradine, Osa Massen, Larry Parks
A paratrooper drops behind enemy lines to rescue the deposed king of a mythical Balkan nation. Read More »
The Wolf of the Malveneurs (1943) Guillaume Radot, Madeleine Sologne, Pierre Renoir, Gabrielle Dorziat
There’s a curse on the Malveneur family. There’s a black legend which tells that one of their ancestors sold his soul to the devil Read More »
Bataan (1943) Tay Garnett, Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Lloyd Nolan
Japan has just invaded the Phillipines and the US Army attempts a desperate defence. Read More »
My Little Chickadee (1940) Edward F. Cline, Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia
Rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, Flower Belle Lee is run out of Little Bend. Read More »
The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) Cecil B. DeMille, Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso
As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Read More »
All My Sons (1948) Irving Reis, Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians
All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing. Read More »
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Albert Lewin, George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed
In 1886, in the Victorian London, the corrupt Lord Henry Wotton meets the pure Dorian Gray posing for talented painter Basil Hallward. Read More »