Jack Burden is a newspaper reporter who first hears of Willie Stark when his editor sends him to Kanoma County to cover the man. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Cluny Brown (1946) Ernst Lubitsch
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate. Read More »
See Here, Private Hargrove (1944) Wesley Ruggles, Robert Walker, Donna Reed, Keenan Wynn
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. Read More »
Congo Maisie (1940) H.C. Potter, Ann Sothern, John Carroll, Rita Johnson
In this adaptation of the novel “Congo Landing,” showgirl Maisie Ravier is left stranded in an African village. Read More »
Gentlemans Agreement (1947) Elia Kazan, Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield
Philip Green is a highly respected writer who is recruited by a national magazine to write a series of articles on anti-Semitism in America. Read More »
The Eternal Return (1943) Jean Delannoy, Madeleine Sologne, Jean Marais, Jean Murat
Eternal Return (L’Eternel Retour) translates the Tristan and Isolde legend into contemporary (e.g. 1939) terms. Read More »
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947) Roy Rowland, Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh
Janet Leigh makes an impressive debut alongside Van Johnson in this historical romance in which a farmer’s daughter Read More »
Swamp Water (1941) Jean Renoir, Irving Pichel, Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. Read More »
Samson and Delilah (1949) Cecil B. DeMille, Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders
Though his people, the Israelites, are enslaved by the Philistines, Samson, strongest man of the tribe of Dan Read More »
Master Minds (1949) Jean Yarbrough
When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he’s able to predict the future. Read More »