Category: 1940’s Classic Movies

A Dispatch From Reuter’s 1940 Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter turns his small[…]

Manpower 1941 Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work on a road crew for the power company. In a freak accident[…]

Pittsburgh 1942 Charles ‘Pittsburgh’ Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial[…]

Kismet 1944 In ancient Bagdad, Hafiz is a beggar – self coined the King of Beggars – and a master[…]

Romance On The High Seas 1948 Socialite Elvira Kent suspects her husband of fooling around with other women. When he[…]

It’s A Great Feeling 1949 A waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks[…]

Adventure 1945 A rowdy, womanizing merchant marine, leader of an eccentric crew of misfits and drunks, is almost killed by[…]

13 Rue Madeleine 1946 Documentary-style prologue follows training of O.S.S. agents for WWII work behind enemy lines. One of the[…]

Western Union 1941 Vance Shaw gives up outlawing and goes to work for the telegraph company; his brother Jack Slade[…]

The Long Voyage Home 1940 Storyline Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear,[…]

Her Husband’s Affairs 1947 Ad man/genius William Weldon resents his wife Margaret’s meddling in his business, even though her suggestions[…]

Best Foot Forward 1943 Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball[…]

Tomorrow Is Forever 1946 Storyline An American World War I soldier, whose disfigured face is reconstructed by Austrian plastic surgeons,[…]

The Feminine Touch 1941 Storyline John Hathaway is a professor of psychology at Digby College. His students are bored as[…]

Sister Kenny 1946 Storyline Elizabeth Kenny, as a young nurse out in the Australian bush discovers an effective treatment for[…]