Tag Archives: 1940s

Jeff Carter, a singer down on his luck, turns to radio acting as a means of supporting his young son Danny. Read More »

A drug supply company plans to go out of business, which could force Peavey the druggist to close up shop. Read More »

The town of Pitchfork, Arkansas makes national headlines when Esmeralda the sow gives birth to 18 piglets. Read More »

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 »

An extremely rare film by Roberto Rossellini, his third feature, made under the Fascist control of Italy. Read More »

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 »

Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana ‘Butch’ Mason, and finds evidence of arson. Read More »

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 »

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 »

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 »