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Tag Archives: 1940s
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)

A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. Read More »
Something in the Wind (1947) Irving Pichel

Deanna Durbin stars in the musical shaggy dog story Something in the Wind. Read More »
Blind Desire (1945) La part de l’ombre

A violinist passes on to his daughter three rings which represent three passions of his romantic past Read More »
Typhoon (1940) Louis King, Dorothy Lamour

Two men searching for black pearls are marooned on an island when their crew mutinies. Read More »
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Orson Welles

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved. Read More »
Der Meineidbauer (1941) The Farmer Forsworn

After his stepbrother Jacob dies in an accident, farmer Matthias Ferner learns from Paula, Jacob’s spouse of many years Read More »
London Belongs to Me (1948) Dulcimer Street

Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Read More »
Aniki Bóbó (1942) Manoel de Oliveira

In 1940s Porto, Portugal, a young boy joins a street gang after proving his worth. Read More »
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944)

A scientist working on an important new invention which will protect Allied shipping from U-boat torpedoes has been assigned Secret Service security protection. Read More »