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Tag Archives: 1940s
The Great Gildersleeve (1942) Gordon Douglas, Harold Peary, Jane Darwell, Nancy Gates

Small-town eccentric Throckmorton Gildersleeve (of radio fame) has a few problems: Judge Hooker continually questions Read More »
Great Day (1945) Lance Comfort, Eric Portman, Flora Robson, Sheila Sim

In the English village of Denley, the Women’s Institute (a wartime program channeling village products to the troops) Read More »
Adventure in Washington (1941) Alfred E. Green, Herbert Marshall, Virginia Bruce, Gene Reynolds

A senator hires a young hooligan as a senate page, but when the kid gives away valuable information to a conniving businessman Read More »
No Place for a Lady (1943) James P. Hogan, William Gargan, Margaret Lindsay, Phyllis Brooks

Jess Arno (William Gargan), a private detective from Los Angeles, succeeds in clearing former actress Dolly Adair (Phyllis Brooks) Read More »
They Were Sisters (1945) Arthur Crabtree, Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Hugh Sinclair

The story of three sisters who marry men of widely different character as their individual and widely-different married lives unfold. Read More »
Now, Voyager (1942) Irving Rapper, Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains

Overweight Boston spinster Charlotte is a repressed, self-esteemless woman completely dominated by her wealthy mother, Mrs. Henry Vale. Read More »
The Walls of Jericho (1948) John M. Stahl, Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, Anne Baxter

After County Attorney Dave Connors helps Julia Norman with her shiftless father, Jefferson Norman Read More »
Canyon Passage (1946) Jacques Tourneur, Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward

In 1856, backwoods businessman Logan Stuart escorts Lucy Overmire Read More »
A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen (1942) James P. Hogan, William Gargan, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel

Detective Ellery Queen tries to find a missing man, and gets embroiled in a case of murder and embezzlement. Read More »