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Tag Archives: 1940s
The Gay Caballero (1940) Otto Brower, Cesar Romero, Sheila Ryan, Robert Sterling, Western

The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Read More »
Tell It to the Judge (1949) Norman Foster, Rosalind Russell, Robert Cummings, Gig Young, Comedy, Romance

Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a Federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a ‘Good-Government’ group who think her divorce makes her unfit for the job. Read More »
Tulsa (1949) Stuart Heisler, Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendáriz, Action, Drama, Romance, Western

It’s Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing’s rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Read More »
First Yank Into Tokyo (1945) Gordon Douglas, Tom Neal, Barbara Hale, Marc Cramer, Drama, War

An American agent undergoes plastic surgery to make him look Japanese so he can infiltrate Japan and help to free an American POW. Read More »
Stukas (1941) Karl Ritter, Carl Raddatz, Hannes Stelzer, Ernst von Klipstein, Drama, War

This Nazi propaganda film details the exploits of a group of German Luftwaffe pilots flying Stukas–fighter-bombers–in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II. Read More »
The Quiet Duel (1949) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjô, Drama

In 1944, in WWII, Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki cuts his finger with the scalpel during a surgery in a field hospital and is infected by spirochete from his patient Susumu Nakada. Read More »
Hangover Square (1945) John Brahm, Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

George Harvey Bone is a composer in early 20th century London, who is under stress because he is writing a piano concerto. Read More »
Night Editor (1946) Henry Levin, William Gargan, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

“Night Editor” was based on the already existing radio program in which a newspaper editor would recount the ‘inside story’ of some bit newspaper story Read More »
Miranda (1948) Ken Annakin, Glynis Johns, Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, Fantasy, Comedy, Romance

A young married physician out on a fishing holiday ends up being saved by a mermaid, who intends to keep him her prisoner. Read More »