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Tag Archives: 1940s
The Girl in the News (1940) Carol Reed, Margaret Lockwood, Barry K. Barnes, Emlyn Williams

Nurse Anne Graham is controversially – but rightly – acquitted of murder after her elderly patient dies in suspicious circumstances. Read More »
A Lady Takes a Chance (1943) William A. Seiter, Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Charles Winninger

A New York bank clerk,Mollie Truesdale (Jean Arthur), in the late 1930s, finds that her Read More »
Camino del infierno (1946) Luis Saslavsky, Daniel Tinayre, Mecha Ortiz, Pedro López Lagar, Amelia Bence

Laura Sinrok, a rich and despotic woman domains her husband Alberto, pretending to commit suicide to retain him with her. Her ending will be tragic. Read More »
The Mantrap (1943) George Sherman, Henry Stephenson, Lloyd Corrigan, Joseph Allen

Henry Stephenson stars as a retired Scotland Yard detective. He is regarded as an icon because he has written volumes of books on the art of detection. Read More »
The Great Sacrifice (1944) Veit Harlan, Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff

Albrecht is a son in a family of wealthy intellectuals that has a seaside estate near Hamburg. Read More »
Duel in the Sun (1946) King Vidor, Otto Brower, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck

When her father is hanged for shooting his wife and her lover, half-breed Pearl Chavez goes to live with distant relatives in Texas. Read More »
Queen of the Amazons (1947) Edward Finney, Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison, J. Edward Bromberg

Jean Preston leads a party to India to investigate the disappearance of her fiance, Greg Jones, but someone manages to thwart their efforts through lies and murder. Read More »
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) Norman Z. McLeod, Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff

In New York the clumsy Walter Mitty is the publisher of pulp fiction at the Pierce Publishing house owned by Bruce Pierce. Read More »
Holiday Affair (1949) Don Hartman, Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey

The Christmas-season romance of a young widow and a sales clerk who (thanks to her) is unemployed. Read More »