Tag Archives: 1940s

In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Read More »

Having pulled off a robbery with his friend Maurice, Olivier leaves his mistress Lola and hides out in a small village in the country. Read More »

Old Vienna, at a time when the waltz was considered an immoral dance. Read More »

Andrew and Clara are school sweethearts whose marriage goes stale after five years. Andrew is a hard worker at the firm, but it seems that all he does is work. Read More »

Nurse Shirley Yorke must assist her boss Dr Napier, the only person able of effecting a new treatment on the ailing wife of a British Lord. Read More »

This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey’s oft-used plot of “employing bad guys as good guys to help the good-good guys capture the bad-bad guys.” Read More »

A girl has been murdered. A woman cannot remember a man who claims to be her husband. Read More »

To try and kick-start her show-business career, our heroine admits to a Chicago murder. But although Cook County don’t seem to let dames swing Read More »

In 1941, before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Ben Fallon (John Beal), radio reporter and commentator Read More »

St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1859, is divided by a railroad track that separates the richer and poorer classes of people. Read More »