Tag Archives: 1940s

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 »

Ma Webster and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns. Read More »

George Gribble (George Formby) works for the local council as an odd job man Read More »

Episodes in the novelist’s life: In 1890, young Jack London quits a cannery job to try oyster piracy. Read More »

Bucharest, 1876. Don Dumitrache instructs his trusted man, Chiriac, to watch his young wife, Veta. Read More »

Based on actual events, taken from a woman doctor’s story of life in a remote leper colony. Read More »

Harris and his assistant Eddie “Rochester” Anderson are painters doing a job at a nightclub. Read More »

Gert and Daisy volunteer to escort a group of evacuee children to the country Read More »

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 »

After serving in World War I, two army buddies (John Payne and Jack Oakie) become partners Read More »