
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Men Without Wings (1946) Frantisek Cáp, Gustav Nezval

The action takes place in occupied Czechoslovak Republic after assassination of Schutzstaffel (SS)-Obergruppenführer Read More »
On Approval (1944) Clive Brook, Beatrice Lillie

Victorian London. George, the 10th Duke of Bristol, and his equally upper class friend Richard Halton are both broke. Read More »
That Forsyte Woman (1949) Compton Bennett

Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Read More »
Tragic Hunt (1947) Giuseppe De Santis, Vivi Gioi

Immediately after the war, a truck on which the newlyweds Michele and Giovanna travel Read More »
The Girl from the Third Row (1949) Hasse Ekman

Is man’s existence really meaningful and hopeful? As a reply to Ingmar Bergman’s Fängelse (1949), this movie claims that it is. Read More »
Both You and I (1946) Mikio Naruse

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss. Read More »
Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub (1941) Jürgen von Alten

A warrant officer in the Great War lands up falling in love with a woman who has written a letter to an unknown soldier. Read More »
Big Town Scandal (1948) William C. Thomas

Steve Wilson, crusading editor of the Big Town’s Illustrated Press Read More »
The Woman of the Town (1943) George Archainbaud

New York newspaperman Bat Masterson thinks back on his time as a lawman in Dodge City Read More »