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Tag Archives: 1940s
Road House (1948) Jean Negulesco, Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm

Jefty, owner of a roadhouse in a backwoods town, hires sultry, tough-talking torch singer Lily Stevens against the advice of his manager Pete Morgan. Read More »
Love Letters (1942) Claude Autant-Lara, Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Simone Renant

France, 1855. Zélie Fontaine, a twenty-odd-year-old widow and the post mistress of the small provincial town of Argenson Read More »
The Mark of Zorro (1940) Rouben Mamoulian, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone

Tired of Governor Quintero’s (J. Edward Bromberg) exploitation of poor Californians, Don Diego (Tyrone Power) decides to fight back and assumes the identity of Zorro. Read More »
Pin Up Girl (1944) H. Bruce Humberstone, Betty Grable, John Harvey, Martha Raye

Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become “engaged” to almost every serviceman she’s signed her pin-up photo for. Read More »
The Big Punch (1948) Sherry Shourds, Wayne Morris, Lois Maxwell, Gordon MacRae

A boxer turned minister offers shelter to a tank fighter framed for killing a policeman. Read More »
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941) Richard Wallace, George Murphy, Lucille Ball, Edmond O’Brien

Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Read More »
Badlands of Dakota (1941) Alfred E. Green, Robert Stack, Ann Rutherford, Richard Dix

Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Read More »
The Thirteenth Hour (1947) William Clemens, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg

In the 7th of Columbia’s “Whistler” series, truck-firm owner Steve Reynolds gets involved in a feud with a rival firm Read More »
The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) Robert Florey, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre

Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where several murders have taken place. Read More »