Actually, the sailor wants nothing to do with the boy, who we eventually find out is an orphan who ran away from the orphanage, trying to find a new Mom and Dad. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Road to Happiness (1941) Phil Rosen, John Boles, Mona Barrie, Billy Lee, Drama, Musical, Romance
Jeff Carter, a singer down on his luck, turns to radio acting as a means of supporting his young son Danny. Read More »
Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943) Gordon Douglas, Harold Peary, Billie Burke, Claire Carleton, Comedy
A drug supply company plans to go out of business, which could force Peavey the druggist to close up shop. Read More »
I’m from Arkansas (1944) Lew Landers, Slim Summerville, El Brendel, Iris Adrian, Comedy, Musical, Romance
The town of Pitchfork, Arkansas makes national headlines when Esmeralda the sow gives birth to 18 piglets. Read More »
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) Sam Wood, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists Read More »
L’uomo dalla croce / Man with a Cross (1943) Roberto Rossellini, Alberto Tavazzi, Roswita Schmidt, Attilio Dottesio, War, Drama
An extremely rare film by Roberto Rossellini, his third feature, made under the Fascist control of Italy. Read More »
Law of the Tropics (1941) Ray Enright, Constance Bennett, Jeffrey Lynn, Regis Toomey, Drama, Romance
Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry. Read More »
The Forest Rangers (1942) George Marshall, Fred MacMurray, Paulette Goddard, Susan Hayward, Action, Drama
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana ‘Butch’ Mason, and finds evidence of arson. Read More »
Edge of Darkness (1943) Lewis Milestone, Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Drama, War
It’s two years after the Nazi’s invasion of Norway and in a small fishing village that is headquarters to 150 German soldiers Read More »
The Gang’s All Here (1943) Busby Berkeley, Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Playboy Andy Mason, on leave from the army, romances showgirl Eadie Allen overnight to such effect that she’s starry-eyed when he leaves next morning for active duty in the Pacific. Read More »