Tag Archives: 1940s

A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father’s last moments happy. Read More »

The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory Read More »

A private detective is hired to retrieve a valuable antique coin that was stolen from its owner by her son, who used it to pay off a blackmailer. Read More »

This third film version of James Hagan’s stage play One Sunday Afternoon was directed by Raoul Walsh, who helmed the second adaptation (1941’s Strawberry Blonde). Read More »

Johnny Blake, dodging the law on a false murder charge, gets work in the oil fields. His boss and friend Hap O’Connor turns on him when Johnny and Hap’s girlfriend Linda fall in love. Read More »

Dr. Michael Lewis treats Jane, a mysterious woman claiming to be a British secret agent on the run from German spies. Read More »

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 »

In San Francisco, during the 1940s, US Treasury agents interrupt an illicit exchange between a sailor and a drug dealer. Read More »

During the American Civil War, Captain Kerry Bradford escapes from a notorious confederate prison. Read More »

Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. Read More »