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Tag Archives: 1940s
Panama Hattie (1942) Norman Z. McLeod, Roy Del Ruth, Vincente Minnelli, Red Skelton, Ann Sothern, Rags Ragland
Hattie Maloney runs a saloon in Panama where assorted characters congregate Read More »
My Universities / Moi universitety (1940) Mark Donskoy, Nikolai Valbert, Stepan Kayukov, Nikolai Dorokhin
The last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy’s Maxim Gorky trilogy. Read More »
The Great McGinty (1940) Preston Sturges, Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited Read More »
The Loves of Carmen (1948) Charles Vidor, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Ron Randell
Following the plot of the opera, “Carmen,” this story follows the wild gypsy’s Read More »
Christmas in July (1940) Preston Sturges, Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune Read More »
Vacation in Reno (1946) Leslie Goodwins, Jack Haley, Anne Jeffreys, Wally Brown
Jack Carroll and his wife have a phony argument to teach their friends a lesson Read More »
Marriage in the Shadows / Ehe im Schatten (1947) Kurt Maetzig, Paul Klinger, Ilse Steppat, Alfred Balthoff
Set during the rise of the Nazi regime, Marriage in the Shadows is modeled Read More »
Billy The Kid (1941) David Miller, Frank Borzage, Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Ian Hunter
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being Read More »
The Bells Go Down (1943) Basil Dearden, Tommy Trinder
The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII. Read More »