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Tag Archives: 1940s
Guest in the House (1944) John Brahm, John Cromwell, Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy, Aline MacMahon

A young manipulative woman moves in with her fiancé’s family and turns a happy household against itself. Read More »
Rendezvous with Annie (1946) Allan Dwan, Eddie Albert, Faye Marlowe, Gail Patrick

A homesick American soldier stationed in England, during WWII, makes an unauthorized Read More »
The Challenge (1948) Jean Yarbrough, Tom Conway, June Vincent, Richard Wyler

Bulldog Drummond investigates the murder of a sea captain who died before revealing the location of his hidden gold. Read More »
Louisiana Purchase (1941) Irving Cummings, Bob Hope, Vera Zorina, Victor Moore

Graft is rampant in the government of a “mythical” Louisiana, and the arrival of U.S. Senate investigator Loganberry brings panic. Read More »
Law of the Jungle (1942) Jean Yarbrough, Arline Judge, John ‘Dusty’ King, Mantan Moreland

Nona Brooks, former member of a stranded theatrical troupe, earns a temporary living singing Read More »
The Wolf of the Sila / Il lupo della Sila (1949) Duilio Coletti, Silvana Mangano, Amedeo Nazzari, Vittorio Gassman

Returning home after a night of love spent in a woodman’s hut with Orsola Read More »
Show Business (1944) Edwin L. Marin, Eddie Cantor, George Murphy, Joan Davis

Four young hopefuls, George, Connie, Joan and Eddie, doing the Burlesque and Amateur Circuits Read More »
The Green Chamber of Linnais / Linnaisten vihreä kamari (1945) Valentin Vaala, Rauli Tuomi, Regina Linnanheimo, Kaija Rahola
The film represents the style of pure escapism with its mansion settings filled with romances Read More »
Marie-Martine (1943) Albert Valentin, Renée Saint-Cyr, Jules Berry, Saturnin Fabre

Novelist Loic Limousin, passing through a little provincial town, meets again Marie-Martine, his book’s heroine. Read More »
