The Acunas, a rich Argentine family, have the tradition that the daughters have to get married in order, oldest first. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Meet John Doe (1941) Frank Capra, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed “John Doe,” Read More »
The Phantom Speaks (1945) John English, Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges, Lynne Roberts
The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician Read More »
The Desert Song (1943) Robert Florey, Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad. Read More »
You’ll Find Out (1940) David Butler, Kay Kyser, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
Kay Kyser and his orchestra are hired to entertain at the birthday party of a young heiress at a creepy old mansion Read More »
Monsieur Beaucaire (1946) George Marshall, Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield, Patric Knowles
Beaucaire is a barber for the Royal French court who becomes a real “royal pain” for the king. Read More »
Arabian Nights (1942) John Rawlins, Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu
Dancer Sherazade was told by the stars that she will become wife of the kalif in Bagdad. Read More »
South of Pago Pago (1940) Alfred E. Green, Victor McLaglen, Jon Hall, Frances Farmer
In the 1890s, white-skinned Ruby Taylor (Frances Farmer) makes a strange journey from Singapore Read More »
The Paleface (1948) Norman Z. McLeod, Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong
Someone is selling guns to the Indians and in order to find the culprit Calamity Jane Read More »
Spitfire (1942) Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John
By the late 1920’s aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell feels he has achieved all he wants Read More »