Tag Archives: 1940s

In a 17th-century Danish village, an old woman is accused of witchcraft. In the shadow of her flight, capture, confession, and burning at the stake, the young wife of the town’s aging pastor falls in love with the pastor’s son. Read More »

Jean takes the job of caretaker/companion (before the word took on a completely alternate-life style meaning) to blind woman Zenobia. Read More »

A young Italian pilot is interned in a British prison camp after his plane is shot down during the war against Greece. Read More »

Twin sisters Rosemary and Susie Allison are successful nightclub performers. Their act is about to come to a close when serious-minded Rosemary announces she’s joining the Waves. Read More »

Anti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi, trying to get their son to America. Read More »

Steamboat inventor Robert Fulton shows up in New York in 1807. Tavern keeper believes in him, but her boyfriend doesn’t. All seems lost when sailors afraid of losing their jobs burn his boat.
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Cynical freighter captain Mike Dillon hopes to take the money and run after helping to smuggle Jewish refugees ashore in pre-Israel Palestine. Read More »

Pinkie Brown is a small-town hoodlum whose gang runs a protection racket based at Brighton race course. Read More »

Following Napoleon’s Waterloo defeat and the exile of his officers and their families from France, the U.S.Congress, in 1817, granted four townships in the Alabama territory to the exiles. Read More »

A girl who moves to the city after her fiancé lacks the courage to face his father ,who is against their relationship. Read More »