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Tag Archives: 1940s
Leave It to the Irish (1944) William Beaudine, James Dunn, Wanda McKay, Jack La Rue
Private Investigator Terry Moran (James Dunn), who is in love with Nora O’Brien Read More »
Luxury Liner (1948) Richard Whorf, George Brent, Jane Powell, Lauritz Melchior
What do you do when you are an effervescent teen called Polly and you have a dad who is the skipper of a luxury liner? Read More »
Queen of the Mob (1940) James P. Hogan, Ralph Bellamy, Blanche Yurka, J. Carrol Naish
Ma Webster and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns. Read More »
He Snoops to Conquer (1944) Marcel Varnel, George Formby, Robertson Hare, Elizabeth Allan
George Gribble (George Formby) works for the local council as an odd job man Read More »
Jack London (1943) Alfred Santell, Michael O’Shea, Susan Hayward, Osa Massen
Episodes in the novelist’s life: In 1890, young Jack London quits a cannery job to try oyster piracy. Read More »
Stormy Night AKA O noapte furtunoasa (1943) Jean Georgescu, Stefan Baroi, Radu Beligan, Elena Bulandra
Bucharest, 1876. Don Dumitrache instructs his trusted man, Chiriac, to watch his young wife, Veta. Read More »
Spring on Leper’s Island AKA Kojima no haru (1940) Shirô Toyoda, Shizue Natsukawa, Ichirô Sugai, Haruko Sugimura
Based on actual events, taken from a woman doctor’s story of life in a remote leper colony. Read More »
I Love a Bandleader (1945) Del Lord, Phil Harris, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Leslie Brooks
Harris and his assistant Eddie “Rochester” Anderson are painters doing a job at a nightclub. Read More »
Gert and Daisy’s Week-end (1942) Maclean Rogers, Elsie Waters, Doris Waters, Iris Vandeleur
Gert and Daisy volunteer to escort a group of evacuee children to the country Read More »
It’s in the Bag (1944) Herbert Mason, Elsie Waters, Doris Waters, Ernest Butcher
The popular British music hall and radio team of Gert and Daisy (Elsie and Doris Waters) heads the cast of It’s in the Bag. Read More »
The Great American Broadcast (1941) Archie Mayo, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, John Payne
After serving in World War I, two army buddies (John Payne and Jack Oakie) become partners Read More »
Follies Girl (1943) William Rowland, Wendy Barrie, Doris Nolan, Gordon Oliver
An Army private falls for his father’s employee, a dress designer working on a burlesque show. Read More »
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) Dorothy Arzner, Roy Del Ruth, Maureen O’Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball
Judy O’Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles Read More »
Red River (1948) Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson, John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru
Fourteen years after starting his cattle ranch in Texas, Tom Dunston is finally ready to drive his 10,000 head of cattle to market. Read More »