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Tag Archives: 1940s
Roughly Speaking (1945) Michael Curtiz, Rosalind Russell, Jack Carson, Robert Hutton

In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man’s world. Read More »
My Darling Clementine (1946) John Ford, Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature

Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. Read More »
Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941) A. Edward Sutherland, Ronald Reagan, Joan Perry, James Gleason

Boy crusader Matt works for the Daily News and always breaks the big story. Read More »
Back-Room Boy (1942) Herbert Mason, Arthur Askey, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt

A lowly BBC employee pulls a prank at the studio and finds himself Read More »
San Quentin (1946) Gordon Douglas, Lawrence Tierney, Marian Carr, Barton MacLane

An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don’t go as planned. Read More »
16 Fathoms Deep (1948) Irving Allen, Lloyd Bridges, Lon Chaney Jr., Arthur Lake

Examines the dangerous business of snaring sponges on the ocean’s floor that are sold via an auction exchange. Read More »
Wing and a Prayer (1944) Henry Hathaway, Don Ameche

An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific Read More »
A Yank at Eton (1942) Norman Taurog, Mickey Rooney, Edmund Gwenn, Ian Hunter

Mickey Rooney portrays Tim in this fish-out-of-water tale co-scripted by and based Read More »
Lust for Gold (1949) S. Sylvan Simon

The tale of how immigrant Jacob Walz, the “Dutchman” (German) of Arizona’s notorious Read More »