This is not a movie that will be on everyone’s lips, there is just no full frontal, or otherwise, nudity to be had. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Earl of Chicago (1940) Richard Thorpe, Victor Saville, Robert Montgomery, Edward Arnold, Reginald Owen, Drama
Silky has always moved booze. In prohibition, he smuggled it from Canada, but now that it is legal, he produces his own brand. Read More »
Free and Easy (1941) George Sidney, Edward Buzzell, Robert Cummings, Ruth Hussey, Judith Anderson, Comedy, Romance
Max and his father are both looking to marry wealthy women. The task would be far easier if either one of them had any money of their own. Read More »
Candlelight in Algeria (1944) George King, James Mason, Carla Lehmann, Raymond Lovell, Drama, War
An American sculptress in wartime Britain gets mixed up with a British agent Read More »
Son of the Navy (1940) William Nigh, Jean Parker, James Dunn, Martin Spellman, Drama, Comedy
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 »
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 »