Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Lillian Russell (1940) Irving Cummings, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Biography, Drama, Musical
Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore. Read More »
Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949) William Castle, Howard Duff, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
In San Francisco, during the 1940s, US Treasury agents interrupt an illicit exchange between a sailor and a drug dealer. Read More »
Virginia City (1940) Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Action, Drama, History, Romance, Western
During the American Civil War, Captain Kerry Bradford escapes from a notorious confederate prison. Read More »
The Long Voyage Home (1940) John Ford, John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Drama, War
Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. Read More »
I Shot Jesse James (1949) Samuel Fuller, Preston Foster, Barbara Britton, John Ireland, Drama, History, Romance, Western
While the law hunts him, Jesse James lives quietly in a rented house on the corner of Lafayette and Twenty-first street in St. Joseph, Missouri, under the alias of Tom Howard. Read More »
Moon Over Burma (1940) Louis King, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Preston Foster, Adventure
The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon. Read More »
Am Abend nach der Oper / In the Evening After the Opera (1945) Arthur Maria Rabenalt, Gusti Huber, Siegfried Breuer, Robert Lindner, Drama, Romance
This totally forgotten film is adapted from a story by Franz Nabl who also provided the basis for Der verzauberte Tag. Read More »
La symphonie pastorale (1946) Jean Delannoy, Pierre Blanchar, Michèle Morgan, Line Noro, Drama
On Christmas Eve, Jean Martens, a Swiss minister, takes in a blind half-crippled orphan and brings her up with his four children. Read More »
Time Out of Mind (1947) Robert Siodmak, Phyllis Calvert, Robert Hutton, Ella Raines, Drama
The son of a wealthy Maine shipping magnate causes a crisis in the family when he announces that he wants a career in music rather than in the family business. Read More »