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Tag Archives: 1940s
Snow Trail / Ginrei no hate (1947) Senkichi Taniguchi, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Kosugi

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. Read More »
Double Indemnity (1944) Billy Wilder, Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets Read More »
Long Is the Road / Lang ist der Weg (1948) Herbert B. Fredersdorf, Marek Goldstein, Israel Becker, Bettina Moissi, Berta Litwina

Written by Israel Becker, this is the first feature film to represent Read More »
American Matchmaker (1940) Edgar G. Ulmer, Leo Fuchs, Judith Abarbanel, Judel Dubinsky

Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he’s really going to get married. Read More »
Minstrel Man (1944) Joseph H. Lewis, Edgar G. Ulmer, Benny Fields, Gladys George, Alan Dinehart

The story of a singer in a minstrel show, from his career highs to the tragedies in his personal life. Read More »
The Leopard Man (1943) Jacques Tourneur, Dennis O’Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks

At the encouragement of her manager, a nightclub performer in New Mexico (Kiki Walker) Read More »
The Battle of the Rails / La bataille du rail (1946) René Clément, Marcel Barnault, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand

This movie is a story about French railroad workers who were Read More »
The Stone Flower / Kamennyy tsvetok (1946) Aleksandr Ptushko, Vladimir Druzhnikov, Yekaterina Derevshchikova, Tamara Makarova

Aging master gemcutter Prokopych is forced to take up a young apprentice against his will. Read More »
Tomorrow We Live (1942) Edgar G. Ulmer, Ricardo Cortez, Jean Parker, Emmett Lynn

Julie Bronson (Jean Parker), whose father, “Pop” Bronson (Emmett Lynn) operates Read More »