
A group of U.S. Army nurses leaves San Francisco for their tour of duty in Hawaii in December 1941. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
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 »
The Return of the Vampire (1943) Lew Landers, Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch

When an errant bomb unearths the coffin of a vampire during the London Blitz, a gravedigger unknowingly Read More »
Young and Willing (1943) Edward H. Griffith, William Holden, Eddie Bracken, Robert Benchley

For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists’ films during the war years Read More »
She Knew All the Answers (1941) Richard Wallace, Joan Bennett, Franchot Tone, John Hubbard

A chorus girl, Gloria Winters, is overjoyed that wealthy young Randy Bradford is so eager to marry her, he’s asked her to elope. Read More »
Incident (1948) William Beaudine

Stockbroker Joe Downey(Warren Douglas), mistaken in the dark for gangster “Slats” Slattery (Robert Osterloh), is brutally beaten by a rival gangster Read More »
Voice in the Wind (1944) Arthur Ripley, Francis Lederer, Sigrid Gurie, J. Edward Bromberg

A concert pianist has lost his memory, the result of his being arrested and tortured by the Nazis during the war for playing a banned song. Read More »
The Royalists / Les chouans (1947) Henri Calef, Jean Marais, Marcel Herrand, Pierre Dux

The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed. Read More »
Mexicana (1945) Alfred Santell, Tito Guízar, Constance Moore, Leo Carrillo

In this musical comedy, a popular Mexican singer finds himself tiring of the constant adulation of rabidly adoring females Read More »