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Tag Archives: 1940s
On the Sunny Side (1942) Harold D. Schuster, Roddy McDowall, Jane Darwell, Stanley Clements, Drama, War

Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Read More »
L’armoire volante / The Cupboard Was Bare (1948) Carlo Rim, Fernandel, Berthe Bovy, Germaine Kerjean, Comedy, Crime

Alfred Pic is a conscientious tax inspector who lives with his authoritarian aged aunt. Read More »
Il pirata sono io! / The Pirate’s Dream (1940) Mario Mattoli, Erminio Macario, Juan de Landa, Enzo Biliotti, Comedy

The governor of Santa Genoveffa eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Viceroy and his wife and decides to stage a pirate attack…. and from then on a bad idea gets worse. Read More »
Marry the Boss’s Daughter (1941) Thornton Freeland, Brenda Joyce, Bruce Edwards, George Barbier, Comedy, Romance

Jefferson Cole comes to New York seeking a job, but is unable to find one. Read More »
La gondola del diavolo / The Devil’s Gondola (1946) Carlo Campogalliani, Loredana, Carlo Lombardi, Erminio Spalla, Adventure

In Ducal Venice, a series of heinous crimes are mysteriously committed concomitantly to the arrival of a gondola, by the popular fantasy called “the devil’s gondola”. Read More »
Major Barbara (1941) Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Comedy

A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father’s business.
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Mokey (1942) Wells Root, Dan Dailey, Donna Reed, Robert Blake, Drama

Mokey is an eight-year-old boy whose father gives him too little attention and whose stepmother misunderstands him. His misdeeds are due to neglect and misunderstanding on the part of his elders.
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Hitler’s Madman (1943) Douglas Sirk, Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman, Drama, War

Somewhat fictionalized account of the destruction of the village of Lidice in Czechoslovakia and the events leading up to it. Read More »
Frontier Gal (1945) Charles Lamont, Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron, Andy Devine, Family, Musical, Western

A wanderer returns after 6 years and a one-night honeymoon to make amends with his bride and 5 year old daughter. Read More »