This film shows us the growth of Adolf Hitler out of a tiny radical political adventurer Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Cafe Hostess (1940) Sidney Salkow, Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak, Douglas Fowley
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave. Read More »
Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947) Lew Landers, Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli
Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter. Read More »
The Sullivans (1944) Lloyd Bacon, Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle
The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II Read More »
Actress / Joyu (1947) Teinosuke Kinugasa, Isuzu Yamada, Michiko Araki, Eitarô Shindô
Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought Read More »
The Lady Eve (1941) Preston Sturges, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. Read More »
Frenchman’s Creek (1944) Mitchell Leisen, Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone
An English lady bored with London society brings her 2 children to their country home. Read More »
The Lone Wolf in London (1947) Leslie Goodwins, Gerald Mohr, Nancy Saunders, Eric Blore
Michael Lanyard (Gerald Mohr) is suspected of stealing two fabulous diamonds from a vault in Scotland Yard Read More »
Counter-Espionage (1942) Edward Dmytryk, Warren William, Eric Blore, Hillary Brooke
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing. Read More »
The Silver Darlings (1947) Clarence Elder, Norman Williams, Christopher Capon, Murdo Morrison
A harsh if ultimately optimistic depiction of life in the unforgiving Hebrides Read More »