
Jenny Lamour wants to succeed in music hall. Her husband and accompanist is Maurice Martineau, a nice but jealous guy. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Warning to Wantons (1949) Donald B. Wilson, Harold Warrender, Anne Vernon, David Tomlinson

Seventeen-year-old Renee slips away from her convent school, joins her fashionable mother Read More »
Donne-moi tes yeux (1943) Sacha Guitry, Geneviève Guitry, Aimé Clariond

A renowned sculptor aged about fifty years, François Bressolles falls for the young Catherine Collet Read More »
The Estrela’s Lion (1947) Arthur Duarte, António Silva, Milú, Maria Eugénia

Anastacio, a football fan supporting the Sporting Club, meets the Baratas while on vacation with his family. Read More »
Reign of Terror (1949) Anthony Mann, Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart

Robespierre, a powerful figure in the French Revolution and the subsequent Reign of Terror Read More »
Adventures of Casanova (1948) Roberto Gavaldón, Arturo de Córdova, Lucille Bremer, Turhan Bey

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered Read More »
Mahal (1949) Kamal Amrohi, Ashok Kumar, Madhubala, M. Kumar

Hari Shankar (Ashok Kumar) comes to claim his inheritance – a palatial building known as Shabnam Mahal. Read More »
Within These Walls (1945) H. Bruce Humberstone, Thomas Mitchell, Mary Anderson, Edward Ryan

Michael Howland, a stern hanging judge, is assigned to take over a chaotic prison. Read More »
They Were Expendable (1945) John Ford, Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed

In the wake of Pearl Harbor’s surprise attack, World War II hero, Lt. John Brickley’s experimental squadron Read More »
Getting Gertie’s Garter (1945) Allan Dwan, Dennis O’Keefe, Marie McDonald, Barry Sullivan

Getting Gertie’s Garter is an updated adaptation of the venerable stage farce by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood. Read More »