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Tag Archives: 1940s
Dangerous Journey (1944) Armand Denis, Leila Roosevelt, Conrad Nagel
Expeditions to parts of North and South America, India and Burma (Myanmar). Read More »
Holy Matrimony (1943) John M. Stahl
Famed English painter Priam Farll has spent the last 25 years living in various Read More »
The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family / Todake no kyôdai (1941) Yasujirô Ozu, Mieko Takamine, Shin Saburi, Hideo Fujino
When the patriarch of the Toda family suddenly dies, his widow discovers that he has left Read More »
Love Story (1944) Leslie Arliss, Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, Tom Walls
After discovering that she has only a short time left to live, concert pianist Lissa travels to Cornwall Read More »
Operette (1940) Willi Forst, Maria Holst, Dora Komar
The first film of Willi Forst’s legendary Viennese trilogy is essentially a condensed history of the golden age of Viennese operetta mirrored in the fictive love story Read More »
There Goes Kelly (1945) Phil Karlson, Jackie Moran, Wanda McKay, Sidney Miller
Two young men working as pages at a radio station try to get an audition for a girl they know who wants to be a singer. Read More »
So Proudly We Hail! (1943) Mark Sandrich, Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake
A group of U.S. Army nurses leaves San Francisco for their tour of duty in Hawaii in December 1941. Read More »
People in the Summer Night (1948) Valentin Vaala
A visual poem based on a story by Nobel laureate F.E. Sillanpää. Read More »
Nine Girls (1944) Leigh Jason, Ann Harding, Evelyn Keyes, Jinx Falkenburg
Among those members of a sorority is found killed. Even though the authorities are called in to investigate Read More »