A medical student–broke, hungry and desperate for money–is hired to murder a loan shark. After the killing he is tormented by guilt over what he’s done. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Joan of Arc (1948) Victor Fleming, Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan, Biography, Drama, History, War
During the Hundred Years’ War, peasant girl Joan of Arc (Ingrid Bergman) hears voices instructing her to save France from the English. Read More »
Confirm or Deny (1941) Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang, Don Ameche, Joan Bennett, Roddy McDowall, Drama, War
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn’t send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love. Read More »
Train of Events (1949) Sidney Cole, Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, Susan Shaw, Drama
A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it. Read More »
Somewhere in the Night (1946) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During the World War II, a soldier is hit by a grenade that deforms his face and leaves him with amnesia. Read More »
Divorce (1945) William Nigh, Kay Francis, Bruce Cabot, Helen Mack, Drama
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend. Read More »
The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942) Richard Wallace, Joan Bennett, Franchot Tone, Allyn Joslyn, Comedy, Romance, War
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Read More »
Zhong Hua nu er / Daughters of China (1949) Zifeng Ling, Qiang Zhai, Li Bo, Defu Du, Feng Jin, Drama, War
Women play a heroic role in the Volunteer Army fighting the Japanese in the puppet state of Manchukuo. Read More »
Her Sisters Secret (1946) Edgar G. Ulmer, Nancy Coleman, Margaret Lindsay, Phillip Reed, Drama
A WWII tale of romance that begins during New Orlean’s “Mardi Gras” celebration when a soldier and a girl meet and fall in love. Read More »
Lady in a Jam (1942) Gregory La Cava, Irene Dunne, Patric Knowles, Ralph Bellamy, Comedy, Romance
Jane Palmer is suspected of insanity after squandering her inheritance, and a young psychiatrist, Dr. Enright, is assigned to her case. Read More »