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Tag Archives: 1940s
Youth Runs Wild (1944) Mark Robson

During WWII, adults are either off fighting or busy in the factories, so juvenile delinquency becomes a major problem back home. Read More »
Pardon My Sarong (1942) Erle C. Kenton, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Bruce

A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest Read More »
Buffalo Bill (1944) William A. Wellman, Joel McCrea, Maureen O’Hara, Linda Darnell

A fictionalized account of the life of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. A hunter and Army Scout in the early part of his life Read More »
Lost in a Harem (1944) Charles Reisner, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marilyn Maxwell

Pete Johnson and Harvey D. Garvey, two inept magicians on tour in the Middle Eastern kingdom of Barabeeha Read More »
Raiders of Sunset Pass (1943) John English, Eddie Dew, Smiley Burnette, Jennifer Holt

World War II is raging and the manpower shortage has hit the range since every able-bodied cowboy of military age is off fighting for Uncle Sam. Read More »
The Enchanted Forest (1945) Lew Landers, Edmund Lowe, Brenda Joyce, William Severn

A little boy lost in the woods is found and raised by Old John, a hermit, who teaches the boy about life in general and nature in particular. Read More »
City of Pain (1949) Mario Bonnard, Luigi Tosi, Barbara Costanova, Gianni Rizzo

The city of Pola is being evacuated after the peace conference of 1947 decided to assign the sovereignty to Tito’s Jugoslavia. Read More »
Whistling in the Dark (1941) S. Sylvan Simon, Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford

The operators of ‘Silver Haven’, a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money Read More »
Doctors Don’t Tell (1941) Jacques Tourneur, John Beal, Florence Rice, Edward Norris

Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics. Read More »