Roy, the proprietor of a dude ranch where Gabby is working as a hired hand. Dale is a photojournalist working for “Spread” magazine sent from New York Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Wake Island (1942) John Farrow, Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, Action, Drama, War
In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men’s tropical lassitude Read More »
Sanjûsangen-dô, tôshiya monogatari / A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo (1945) Mikio Naruse, Kazuo Hasegawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Sensho Ichikawa, War, Drama
After a renowned archer commits harakiri because he’s lost the big tournament, innkeeper Kinuyo Tanaka takes in his boy and sees to his training so he can compete in the next big contest.
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Nocturne (1946) Edwin L. Marin, George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Police detective Joe Warner investigates the shooting of womanizing composer Keith Vincent. Read More »
My Sister Eileen (1942) Alexander Hall, Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair, Comedy
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Read More »
The Cockeyed Miracle (1946) S. Sylvan Simon, Frank Morgan, Keenan Wynn, Cecil Kellaway, Fantasy, Comedy
Man returns from heaven to make up for financial errors he made that caused harm to his family.
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Love Thy Neighbor (1940) Mark Sandrich, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Mary Martin, Comedy, Musical
Jack Benny is preparing his New Year’s Eve radio broadcast but takes time out to take his valet Rochester to meet his girlfriend Josephine arriving on a steamer. Read More »
The Lady in Question (1940) Charles Vidor, Brian Aherne, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A juror in a murder trial takes pity on the recently acquitted dependent and invites her to move into his family’s home and his son soon falls in love with her.
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Rebecca (1940) Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Film-Noir, Mystery, Drama
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. Read More »
The Big Noise (1944) Malcolm St. Clair, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Doris Merrick, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Although they are only janitors at a detective agency, the boys pass themselves off as sleuths and are engaged to guard an inventor delivering a new bomb. They outwit enemy agents after the bomb and wind up sinking a Japanese submarine.
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