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 »
Tag Archives: 1940s
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 »
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 »
Waga koi wa moenu / Flame of My Love (1949) Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake, Drama, Romance
A woman’s struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi Read More »
Prince of Foxes (1949) Henry King, Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda Hendrix, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister (widowed by poison) to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. Read More »
Submarine Alert (1943) Frank McDonald, Richard Arlen, Wendy Barrie, Nils Asther, Thriller, War
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. Read More »
The Perfect Marriage (1947) Lewis Allen, Loretta Young, David Niven, Eddie Albert, Comedy
Jenny and Dale Williams have been married ten years and parents of a nine-year-old daughter, “Cookie” Williams. Read More »
He Stayed for Breakfast (1940) Alexander Hall, Loretta Young, Melvyn Douglas, Alan Marshal, Comedy
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment. Read More »
North West Mounted Police (1940) Cecil B. DeMille, Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers (“Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?”, another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. Read More »
On the Spot (1940) Howard Bretherton, Frankie Darro, Mary Kornman, Mantan Moreland, Comedy, Mystery
Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Read More »