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Tag Archives: 1940s
Boomerang! (1947) Elia Kazan, Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb

Connecticut prosecutor Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews), faced with a political maelstrom in the wake of the shooting death of a Catholic priest on a city street corner Read More »
Blonde Inspiration (1941) Busby Berkeley

Unknown writer Jonathan Briggs is tricked into buying in to a struggling western magazine only to find that all Is not as it appears. Read More »
Keeping Company (1940) S. Sylvan Simon, Frank Morgan, Ann Rutherford, John Shelton

A real estate agent and his wife try to advise their eldest daughter about marriage. Read More »
Task Force (1949) Delmer Daves, Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris

On the day of his retirement, Rear Admiral Jonathan L. Scott reflects on his role in introducing aircraft carriers to the U.S. Navy. Read More »
The Strange Woman (1946) Edgar G. Ulmer, Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward

Beautiful Jenny Hager finds she can always get what she wants from the men in the 1820’s port of Bangor, Maine. Read More »
South of St. Louis (1949) Ray Enright, Joel McCrea, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott

Produced by Milton Sperling’s United States Pictures, South of St. Louis was given a widespread release by Warner Bros. Read More »
The Constant Nymph (1943) Edmund Goulding, Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Brenda Marshall

Fourteen-year-old Tessa is hopelessly in love with handsome composer Lewis Dodd, a family friend. Lewis adores Tessa, but has never shown any romantic feelings toward her. Read More »
The Weaker Sex (1948) Roy Ward Baker, Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Joan Hopkins

Life on the home front during World War 2. Martha Dacre tries to keep her home running as normal, during the run up to the D Day landings. Read More »
The Prime Minister (1941) Thorold Dickinson, John Gielgud

A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist Read More »