In the winter of 1868, Eben Frost goes to a Boston pawnshop and redeems a silver medal, inscribed to “Dr. W.T.G. Morton, the Benefactor of Mankind, with the Gratitude of Humanity.” Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Lucky Partners (1940) Lewis Milestone, Ronald Colman, Ginger Rogers, Jack Carson, Comedy, Drama, Romance
As David Grant passes neighbor Jean Newton on the street in Greenwich Village, he impulsively wishes her good luck. Read More »
My Life with Caroline (1941) Lewis Milestone, Ronald Colman, Anna Lee, Charles Winninger, Comedy
Caroline Mason, on vacation with her father Mr. Bliss in Idaho, has fallen in love with gaucho Paco Del Valle, the two who plan to get married. Read More »
George Washington Slept Here (1942) William Keighley, Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn
Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill’s knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania Read More »
The Master Race (1944) Herbert J. Biberman, George Coulouris, Stanley Ridges, Osa Massen, Drama, War
When allied troops liberate a small battle-scarred Belgium town in 1944 the American and British commanders do all they can to help the war-weary people back on their feet. Read More »
Intruder in the Dust (1949) Clarence Brown, David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez, Drama
Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man Read More »
End of the Road (1944) George Blair, Edward Norris, John Abbott, June Storey, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious “Flower Shop Murder” is innocent of the crime. Read More »
Wonder Man (1945) H. Bruce Humberstone, Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Comedy, Musical, Fantasy
Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. Read More »
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Michael Curtiz, James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Biography, Drama, Musical
A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star in his family’s vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback Read More »
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) Sam Wood, Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn
Department store owner J.P. Merrick finds that several of his employees are unionizing to get more money and better working conditions. Read More »