
At the end of the war George Harper (George Formby) is demobbed out of the army Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Get Cracking (1943) Marcel Varnel, George Formby, Edward Rigby, Frank Pettingell

Mechanic and Home Guard lance corporal George Singleton (Formby) has an adversary Read More »
Second Chorus (1940) H.C. Potter, Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, Artie Shaw

Danny and Hank are surprised when Artie Shaw hires competent manager Ellen away from their college band. Read More »
Devil’s Cargo (1948) John F. Link Sr., John Calvert, Rochelle Hudson, Roscoe Karns

Conroy, a playboy, is found shot to death in his penthouse. A ne’er-do-well named Ramon Delgado Read More »
Search for Danger (1949) Jack Bernhard, John Calvert, Albert Dekker, Myrna Dell

Murders of a rival private eye and a suspected thief draw the attention of The Falcon. Read More »
Deep Waters (1948) Henry King, Dana Andrews, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero

A Maine lobster fisherman, trained as an architect, prefers to be a fisherman over the objections of his fiancée. Read More »
Johnny Eager (1941) Mervyn LeRoy, Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold

Ruthless hood Johnny Eager is pretending to his parole officer that he has chucked the rackets and is now a full-time taxi driver. Read More »
Travelling Actors / Tabi yakusha (1940) Mikio Naruse, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kan Yanagiya, Minoru Takase

Story about a group of actors mostly based on the guys playing the horse. Read More »
Le secret de Mayerling / The Secret of Mayerling (1949) Jean Delannoy, Jean Marais, Dominique Blanchar, Jean Debucourt

On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Archduke Rodolphe de Habsbourg Read More »
Once More / Ima hitotabi no (1947) Heinosuke Gosho, Mieko Takamine, Ichirô Ryûzaki, Haruo Tanaka

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman Read More »