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Tag Archives: 1940s
Sailors Three (1940) Walter Forde, Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert, Carla Lehmann
Three British sailors find they’ve accidentally strayed on board a Nazi ship during WWII. Read More »
A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941) Henry King, Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton
Tyrone Power is a pilots’ pilot, but he doesn’t believe in anything beyond his own abilities. Read More »
49th Parallel (1941) Michael Powell, Leslie Howard
In the early years of World War II, a German U-boat (U-37) sinks Allied shipping in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Read More »
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams
Throughout the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the people was frequently advised that “A raid happened last night over…, One (or more) Our Aircraft Is Missing”. Read More »
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) William Keighley, Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
Lecturer Sheridan Whiteside slips on the ice on his way into the home of a prominent Ohio family. Read More »
Antoine and Antoinette (1947) Jacques Becker, Roger Pigaut, Claire Mafféi, Noël Roquevert
Working class couple Antoine and Antoinette dream of a better life. Read More »
Wake of the Red Witch (1948) Edward Ludwig, John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves Read More »
Mrs. Mike (1949) Louis King, Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, J.M. Kerrigan
While visiting her uncle in Alberta, Boston-born Kathy O’Fallon meets Canadian Mountie Mike Flannigan. Read More »
Paracelsus (1943) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Werner Krauss, Harry Langewisch, Annelies Reinhold
A 1943 German drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst based on the life of Philippus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus). Read More »