An older woman discovers that her multi-million dollar fortune was based on embezzlement, so she sets out to right the wrong. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Male Animal (1942) Elliott Nugent, Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Read More »
Mrs. Parkington (1944) Tay Garnett, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life Read More »
I Remember Mama (1948) George Stevens, Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oskar Homolka
The life of a Norwegian immigrant family in 1910 San Francisco centers around Mama and her detailed, pennywise household budget. Read More »
The Crew of the Dora (1943) Karl Ritter, Hannes Stelzer, Hubert Kiurina, Josef Dahmen
Depicts a love triangle involving two Luftwaffe pilots being overcome by their participation in battle together. Read More »
Death is a Caress (1949) Edith Carlmar, Claus Wiese, Bjørg Riiser-Larsen, Eva Bergh
The story of a working man,who’s got a gorgeous fiancée but who falls for a rich older woman — who turns out to be a femme fatale. Read More »
The Undercover Man (1949) Joseph H. Lewis, Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Read More »
A Hen in the Wind (1948) Yasujirô Ozu, Kinuyo Tanaka, Shûji Sano, Chieko Murata
Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband’s return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. Read More »
Waterloo Bridge (1940) Mervyn LeRoy, Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I Read More »
Key Witness (1947) D. Ross Lederman, John Beal, Trudy Marshall, Jimmy Lloyd
Milton Higby, an inventor of gadgets that don’t sell finds himself accused of a crime he didn’t commit—the killing of a girl he had just met Read More »