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Tag Archives: 1940s
Stormy Night / O noapte furtunoasa (1943)

Bucharest, 1876. Don Dumitrache instructs his trusted man, Chiriac, to watch his young wife, Veta. Read More »
Spring on Leper’s Island / 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)

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 »