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Tag Archives: 1940s
Once Upon a Time (1944) Alexander Hall, Cary Grant, Janet Blair, James Gleason

A cash-strapped theater producer promotes a nine-year-old boy’s dancing caterpillar. Read More »
The Purple Heart (1944) Lewis Milestone, Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger

This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Read More »
Voyage surprise (1947) Pierre Prévert, Thérèse Aspar, Maurice Baquet, René Bourbon

A guideless old tour proprietor trumps his new-fangled rival by offering a genuine mystery trip. Read More »
The Falcon in San Francisco (1945) Joseph H. Lewis, Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Edward Brophy

On vacation, Tom Lawrence–The Falcon–and his Brooklyn-born sidekick ‘Goldie’ Locke meet cute Read More »
Cinderella Jones (1946) Busby Berkeley, Joan Leslie, Robert Alda, Julie Bishop

Judy Jones, sings with a group and works in an aircraft plant. She participate in a”missing heirs” Read More »
Doomed to Die (1940) William Nigh, Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers

Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner ‘Wentworth Castle’ Read More »
Phantom of Chinatown (1940) Phil Rosen, Keye Luke, Lotus Long, Grant Withers

In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton the famous explorer Read More »
Ladies of the Chorus (1948) Phil Karlson, Adele Jergens, Marilyn Monroe, Rand Brooks

Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. Read More »
Riff-Raff (1947) Ted Tetzlaff, Pat O’Brien, Walter Slezak, Anne Jeffreys

A plane takes off from Peru (in a long no-dialogue scene) in a storm with two passengers; it lands in Panama with one. Read More »