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Tag Archives: 1940s
Hakai / Apostasy (1948) Keisuke Kinoshita, Ryô Ikebe

Segawa, a teacher in a small village, decides to break with his cowardice after discovering their pariah origin. Read More »
The Amazing Mr. X (1948) Bernard Vorhaus, Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O’Donnell

On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow Read More »
Watch on the Rhine (1943) Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr, Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald

Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother’s home in Washington DC after 18 years in Europe. Read More »
Kings Row (1942) Sam Wood, Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan

Five children in an apparently ideal American small town find their lives changing as the years pass near the turn of the century in 1900. Read More »
Fall In (1942) Kurt Neumann, William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Robert Barrat

Captain Gillis (Frank Faylen) puts Sergeant “Dodo” Doubleday (William Tracy), because of his photographic memory Read More »
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) Leo McCarey, Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, Walter Slezak

At the start of WWII, Katie O’Hara, an American burlesque girl intent on social climbing, marries Austrian Baron Von Luber. Read More »
The Seventh Veil (1945) Compton Bennett

One dark summer night, Francesca Cunningham, a once world famed pianist, escapes from her hospital room Read More »
The Third Man (1949) Carol Reed, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli

An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided Read More »
An American Romance (1944) King Vidor, Brian Donlevy, Ann Richards, Walter Abel

Stefan Dangos immigrates to America and works his way up from the iron Read More »