This rural melodrama, based on the play “Hälsingar” by Swedish playwright Henning Ohlson, tells a story of two brothers, one a honest, hard-working man and the other a womanizing gambler who threatens to ruin their house. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Intohimon Vallassa / In the Grip of Passion (1947) Teuvo Tulio, Regina Linnanheimo, Kullervo Kalske, Eric Gustafson, Drama
A young woman is forced into an arranged marriage by her family in hopes of securing their future, but her husband turns out to be an alcoholic, brute of a man and she longs for the man she truly loves. Read More »
Yellow Canary (1943) Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle, Richard Greene, Nova Pilbeam, Drama, Thriller
In 1940 Sally Maitland is forced to leave England, ostracised as a Nazi sympathiser by everyone including her well-to-do family. Read More »
Tap Roots (1948) George Marshall, Van Heflin, Susan Hayward, Boris Karloff, Drama, War, Western
Morna Dabney is engaged to soldier Clay MacIvor in the days before the War Between the States. Read More »
Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! (1940) Charles Lamont, Donald Woods, Kathryn Adams, Wallace Ford, Comedy, Mystery, Romance
In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. Read More »
Hornankoski / Rapids of Hell (1949) Teuvo Tulio, Roland af Hällström, Regina Linnanheimo, William Markus, Åke Lindman, Drama
Two brothers, one frivolous but fun, the other industrious but dull, both rivals to one woman worker on their farm they both fancy, told in black and white classic melodrama way. Read More »
Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943) William Beaudine, Dick Purcell, Helen Parrish, Tim Ryan, Crime, Mystery
The Morgan family’s patriarch is soon to die. He hosts a dinner party for the family to tell them all he’s setting aside his last will to be opened by his nearly 8-year-old granddaughter thirteen years in the future when she turns twenty-one. Read More »
The Argyle Secrets (1948) Cy Endfield, William Gargan, Marjorie Lord, Ralph Byrd, Drama, Mystery, Romance
An investigative reporter tells his assistant about a book called The Argyle Album, which contains a list of people who were traitors and war profiteers during World War II. Read More »
Le mura di Malapaga / The Walls of Malapaga (1949) René Clément, Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi, Drama, Romance
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter. Read More »
La danse de mort (1948) Marcel Cravenne, Erich von Stroheim, Denise Vernac, Palau, Drama
A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past. Read More »