Tag Archives: 1940s

In Africa, the girl Jill Young trades a baby gorilla with two natives and raises the animal. Read More »

A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people Read More »

The ethicist, Placido Mesquita, coming to Lisbon to visit his nephew Edward to rescue him from a damnable life of bad habits Read More »

Jeff Keane’s expensive showhorse escapes from a train and runs wild in the Colorado wilderness. Read More »

Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Read More »

Escape in the Desert is a thinly disguised remake of The Petrified Forest (1936), updated with a WW II angle. Read More »

A young girl from the ghetto gets involved with some criminals. Driving while drunk, she knocks down and kills a policeman. Read More »

When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home. Read More »

Michael O’Hara, against his better judgement, hires on as a crew member of Arthur Bannister’s yacht, sailing to San Francisco. Read More »

Olivia Harwood, missionary’s widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. Read More »