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Tag Archives: 1940s
Louisiana Purchase (1941) Irving Cummings, Bob Hope, Vera Zorina, Victor Moore
Graft is rampant in the government of a “mythical” Louisiana, and the arrival of U.S. Senate investigator Loganberry brings panic. Read More »
Law of the Jungle (1942) Jean Yarbrough, Arline Judge, John ‘Dusty’ King, Mantan Moreland
Nona Brooks, former member of a stranded theatrical troupe, earns a temporary living singing Read More »
The Wolf of the Sila AKA Il lupo della Sila (1949) Duilio Coletti, Silvana Mangano, Amedeo Nazzari, Vittorio Gassman
Returning home after a night of love spent in a woodman’s hut with Orsola Read More »
Show Business (1944) Edwin L. Marin, Eddie Cantor, George Murphy, Joan Davis
Four young hopefuls, George, Connie, Joan and Eddie, doing the Burlesque and Amateur Circuits Read More »
The Green Chamber of Linnais AKA Linnaisten vihreä kamari (1945) Valentin Vaala, Rauli Tuomi, Regina Linnanheimo, Kaija Rahola
The film represents the style of pure escapism with its mansion settings filled with romances Read More »
Marie-Martine (1943) Albert Valentin, Renée Saint-Cyr, Jules Berry, Saturnin Fabre
Novelist Loic Limousin, passing through a little provincial town, meets again Marie-Martine, his book’s heroine. Read More »
Red Canyon (1949) George Sherman, Ann Blyth, Howard Duff, George Brent
The story revolves around Black Velvet, a wild stallion that runs rampant across the range. Read More »
Isn’t It Romantic (1948) Norman Z. McLeod, Veronica Lake, Mona Freeman, Mary Hatcher
In rural 19th-century Indiana, the three daughters of a Civil War veteran Read More »
Eine kleine Sommermelodie (1944) Volker von Collande, Irene von Meyendorff, Curd Jürgens, John Pauls-Harding
A composing soldier on leave (Curd Jürgens) meets a young woman Read More »
The Germans Strike Again AKA Oi Germanoi xanarhodai… (1948) Alekos Sakellarios, Vasilis Logothetidis, Nitsa Tsaganea, Ilia Livykou
Theodoros, a quiet and modest man, is disappointed and embittered by the civil war Read More »
If I Could Marry the Minister AKA Tänk, om jag gifter mig med prästen (1941) Ivar Johansson, Viveca Lindfors, Georg Rydeberg, Arnold Sjöstrand
Eva Örn is a newly graduated teacher, who becomes a school teacher in rural Vikarlunda. Read More »
Obsession AKA The Hidden Room (1949) Edward Dmytryk, Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Phil Brown
London psychiatrist Clive Riordan, royally fed up with the repeated affairs Read More »
Suspense (1946) Frank Tuttle, Belita, Barry Sullivan, Bonita Granville
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show Read More »
Angel on My Shoulder (1946) Archie Mayo, Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claude Rains
Gangster Eddie Kagel is killed by a trusted lieutenant and finds himself in Harry Redmond Jr’s special-effects Hell Read More »