In San Francisco, during the 1940s, US Treasury agents interrupt an illicit exchange between a sailor and a drug dealer. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
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 »
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 »
Reaching for the Sun (1941) William A. Wellman, Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Eddie Bracken, Comedy
This was a quirky but interesting film about a free footloose sort of fellow played by Joel McCrea who lives in the north Michigan woods and who has an ambition to get an outboard motor for his rowboat. Read More »
Act of Violence (1949) Fred Zinnemann, Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
War veteran Frank Enley seems to be a happily married small-town citizen until he realises Joe Parkson is in town. Read More »
Random Harvest (1942) Mervyn LeRoy, Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Drama, Romance
A veteran of World War I marries and settles happily into a tidy, humble life until an accident brings back memories of a former life of wealth Read More »