Talented small-town girl Lily Mars hounds producer John Thornway for a part in his new play, but he doesn’t want anything to do with stage-struck amateurs. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Step Lively (1944) Tim Whelan, Frank Sinatra, George Murphy, Adolphe Menjou
Gordon Miller is rehearsing a musical comedy in the penthouse suite of Gribble’s hotel…on credit. Read More »
Turnabout (1940) Hal Roach, Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis, John Hubbard
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other’s life. Read More »
The House Across the Street (1949) Richard L. Bare, Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett
Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper’s publisher Read More »
Parole Fixer (1940) Robert Florey, William Henry, Virginia Dale, Robert Paige
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover Read More »
The Chocolate Soldier (1941) Roy Del Ruth, Nelson Eddy, Risë Stevens, Nigel Bruce
Maria and Karl Lang are the singing duo of Vienna. Maria is very flirtatious and Karl very jealous. Read More »
The Woman on Pier 13 (1949) Robert Stevenson, Robert Ryan, Laraine Day, John Agar
Brad Collins, former stevedore, is rising fast in a shipping company when local communist agitators use his former Party affiliation to extort his help in stirring up trouble. Read More »
Jungle Man (1941) Harry L. Fraser, Buster Crabbe, Charles Middleton, Sheila Darcy
An expedition sets out to darkest Africa to find the fabled City of the Dead, and must battle thick jungle, hostile natives, wild animals and a deadly epidemic. Read More »
Knockout (1941) William Clemens, Arthur Kennedy, Olympe Bradna, Virginia Field
Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to Angela Read More »
The Fugitive (1947) John Ford, Emilio Fernández, Henry Fonda, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz
Based of the Graham Greene novel about a revolutionary priest in Central America. Read More »