“Bulldog” Drummond is vacationing in his country home in England, and his house if rifled by two thieves. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
At Land (1944) Maya Deren, John Cage, Alexander Hammid
Silently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Read More »
One-Eyed Dragon / Doku-ganryû Masamune (1942) Hiroshi Inagaki, Chiezô Kataoka, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata, Haruyo Ichikawa
Long thought to be one of the lost treasures of Japanese cinema that had been Read More »
Imagination / Kalpana (1948) Uday Shankar, Lakshmi Kanta, Usha Kiran, Lalitha
Kalpana is a dramatic dance fantasy, about the story of a young dancer Read More »
Mom and Dad (1945) William Beaudine, June Carlson, Hardie Albright, Lois Austin
Because a high school girl’s parents refuse to discuss sex education (called “personal hygiene” in the film) with her Read More »
Under Capricorn (1949) Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding
In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life Read More »
Journey for Margaret (1942) W.S. Van Dyke, Robert Young, Laraine Day, Fay Bainter
An American newspaperman and his wife, caught in the London blitz, lose their unborn child in an air raid. Read More »
Crossroads (1942) Jack Conway, William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor
An amnesiac French diplomat is blackmailed for crimes that he committed before he lost his memory. Read More »
Christmas in Connecticut (1945) Peter Godfrey, Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country’s most famous food writers. Read More »
Centennial Summer (1946) Otto Preminger, Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell
In 1876 Philadelphia, two sisters vie for the affections of a Frenchman who’s come Read More »