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Tag Archives: 1940s
Calcutta (1947) John Farrow, Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix
Neale Gordon and Pedro Lake, commercial pilots who fly the hump between Chungking and Calcutta learn Read More »
Daisy Kenyon (1947) Otto Preminger, Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda
Commercial artist Daisy Kenyon is involved with married lawyer Dan O’Mara Read More »
Roseanna McCoy (1949) Irving Reis, Nicholas Ray, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Charles Bickford
The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn’s Roseanna McCoy. Read More »
Strange Fate / Étrange destin (1946) Louis Cuny, Renée Saint-Cyr, Aimé Clariond, Henri Vidal
Patrica is the wife of Alain de Saulieu, a handsome engineer. Read More »
Quartet (1948) Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Ian Fleming
Four of Somerset Maugham’s short stories are brought to the screen with each introduced by the author himself. Read More »
Post Office Investigator (1949) George Blair, Audrey Long, Warren Douglas, Jeff Donnell
A young postman becomes involved in the theft of rare stamps featuring inverted images of the Statue of Liberty. Read More »
Unfaithfully Yours (1948) Preston Sturges, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallee
Sir Alfred De Carter suspects his wife of adultery. While running a symphony orchestra Read More »
Carolina Blues (1944) Leigh Jason
Band Leader Kay Kyser wants to take a holiday, but his publicist Charlotte Read More »
Bond Street (1948) Gordon Parry, Jean Kent, Roland Young, Kathleen Harrison
A young British woman is getting married, and as she goes through her trousseau Read More »