The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
Tag: 1940s
Six years of war have given Captain Gladstone Wedge – James to his friends – some very definite ideas on the future of mankind. He is determined that when the war is over he will do all he can to spread the word. Whilst rescuing his Sergeant, he is wounded and sent to a military hospital where he meets and falls in love with his nurse, Mary. He still desires to spread his earnest beliefs but how will this fit in with his plans for his new-found love?
The patriarch Knut Borg (Victor Sjöström) lives an ascetic Christian life together with his family on his homestead, Knutsgården. His son Johannes is studying to become a priest, but when his fiancée dies Johannes loses his mind and thinks he is the Saviour. Intense drama about mental illness, faith and doubt, which became an international success and got unexpected political relevance when the Danish playwrighter, who wrote the play Ordet is based upon, got murdered by the Nazis one week after the opening night.
A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based on circumstantial evidence alone, but his plan goes awry.
The biggest town problem is worrying whether the high school basketball team will win the championship… until racketeers move into town and the kids begin to bet on horses, become overly fond of stripped-down racing cars, and Genevieve Rogers suspects her father of being too fond of the school principal’s secretary. Town nerd Bill Kennedy invents a new fuel amidst rumors that – horrors – the basketball game might be fixed. River City is not the only town that has trouble starting with a “T” and there’s not a pool hall in sight.
“Hardtack” Hamilton runs a U.S. Army training ground for bomber pilots near the Panama Canal, but he hasn’t had a pilot like Harley Ames, a reckless but qualified flyer who makes life hard for Hamilton. Ames causes trouble when he makes a move on Hamilton’s woman, Susan, and then gets into an accident, killing a pilot. Can Ames redeem himself with Hamilton and the squadron?
Helen Regan, the daughter of a crippled ex-police officer whose disability makes her hesitant about getting romantically involved with policeman Bob Condon. But her doubts are shelved after Bob rescues her and her father, Dan Regan from Blake Standish, an escaped convict seeking revenge.