A ‘Land Girl’, an American GI, and a British soldier find themselves together in a small Kent town on the road to Canterbury. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
This is the Army (1943) Michael Curtiz, George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias
In WWI dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Read More »
Hills of Home (1948) Fred M. Wilcox, Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake
William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Read More »
Janie (1944) Michael Curtiz, Joyce Reynolds, Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold
Janie is a scatter-brained and high spirited teenage girl living in the small town of Hortonville. Read More »
Easy Living (1949) Jacques Tourneur, Victor Mature, Lizabeth Scott, Lucille Ball
Pete Wilson is on top. He is the highest paid professional football player in the league. Read More »
Dr. Kildare’s Wedding Day (1941) Harold S. Bucquet, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day
It is a week before Dr. Kildare’s wedding to pretty Nurse Mary Lamont. Read More »
Take One False Step (1949) Chester Erskine, William Powell, Shelley Winters, Marsha Hunt
Prof. Andrew Gentling, in Los Angeles to help found a new college, is inveigled by old flame Catherine Sykes into a midnight drive. Read More »
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) Carol Reed, Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert
William Pitt the Younger, son of a famous politician father, becomes the youngest Prime Minister England has ever known Read More »
Secret Agent of Japan (1942) Irving Pichel, Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Noel Madison
Kay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter addressed to Captain Larsen Read More »
Carnival (1946) Stanley Haynes, Sally Gray, Michael Wilding, Stanley Holloway
A dancer attempts to escape from the narrow conventions of society and from the fate foretold for her at her birth. Read More »