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Tag Archives: 1940s
The Comedians (1941) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Käthe Dorsch, Hilde Krahl, Henny Porten

Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. Read More »
We Who Are Young (1940) Harold S. Bucquet, Lana Turner, John Shelton, Gene Lockhart

Two young office workers working at the same large firm secretly marry and defy their employer’s policy against coworker fraternization. Read More »
Pirates of Monterey (1947) Alfred L. Werker, Maria Montez, Rod Cameron, Mikhail Rasumny

Captain Phillip Kent, a soldier of fortune, and his friend Sergeant Pio, journey from Mexico City to Monterey on a secret mission. Read More »
Behind the Rising Sun (1943) Edward Dmytryk, Margo, Tom Neal, J. Carrol Naish

Cornell-educated Taro Seki returns to Japan just as the war party gains control. Read More »
Vice Versa (1948) Peter Ustinov, Roger Livesey, Kay Walsh, Petula Clark

Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. Read More »
Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948) Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle, Hugh Williams, Isabel Jeans

Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII. Read More »
Men Against the Sky (1940) Leslie Goodwins, Richard Dix, Kent Taylor, Edmund Lowe

Phil Mercedes, the world-famous “Greatest Pilot of Them All,” who has been grounded because of his addiction to alcohol. Read More »
The Missing Juror (1944) Budd Boetticher, Jim Bannon, Janis Carter, George Macready

A detective tries to stop whomever is murdering the jurors on a notorious murder case. Read More »
Black Magic (1949) Gregory Ratoff, Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff

Novelist Alexander Dumas tells his writer-son of Joseph Balsamo, a gypsy boy in southern France who was embittered because his parents were wrongfully hanged Read More »