
Fifteen years after the Civil War the people of Bowden, Alabama still hate Marcus Hubbard for wartime profiteering. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
China (1943) John Farrow, Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, William Bendix

Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China Read More »
Give Us This Day (1949) Edward Dmytryk, Sam Wanamaker, Lea Padovani, Kathleen Ryan

One of the few (if any at the time this film was made) films shot in England with New York City’s ‘Little Italy” as the locale. Read More »
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944) Richard Thorpe, Van Johnson, June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven

A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken Read More »
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 »