Tag: 1940s

January 30, 2019 / Drama

The Hansen School for Air Hostesses, operated by Celia Hansen, welcomes a new group of students; a librarian named Ruth Jackson; Lorraine Carter, a nurse; and Jennifer White, whose husband was an aviator killed in World War II. Ruth meets a smart-alec pilot, Dennis Hogan, but complications arise as Lorraine also has an interest in him. Jennifer meets a war-buddy of her husband, Fred MacCoy. All three women, with each other’s help, makes it through to graduation day.

January 28, 2019 / Film Noir
January 26, 2019 / Family

Hugh Mitchell is campaigning for Mayor of Lawtonville against the incumbent, Fulderwilder, but his having trouble with his son, Danny, who persists in telling lies. Trouble starts brewing when Danny, who is “assisting” the town’s new doctor, Antonia Cordell, slips his father’s campaign handbills into the envelopes containing the doctor’s announcement cards. Mayor Fulderwilder accuses Mitchell of complicity in the affair.

January 20, 2019 / Film Noir

A young girl from the ghetto gets involved with some criminals. Driving while drunk, she knocks down and kills a policeman. She runs away with two GI’s who are also on the run and they start a crime wave.

January 8, 2019 / Mystery

On a dark night, the body of a well-known society woman is found; the investigators immediately suspect that the killer was the woman’s maid. For her part, the maid demands that the woman’s fiancé be brought in for questioning. Some journalists covering the story decide to follow up on the maid’s suggestion and gradually piece together the chain of events that led to the murder.

December 29, 2018 / Musical

An orchestra manager drums up business for his band by convincing the owner of a struggling nightclub that his group’s singer is due a huge inheritance.

December 22, 2018 / Film Noir

Joe Eykner an opportunistic newspaper reporter, persuades wealthy, Santa Monica widow Linda Vale, to marry him. He and his girlfriend, Belle Martin, are planning on Bell soon dying from her heart ailment. But, renewed by love, Belle’s condition is rapidly improving, which prompts her impatient husband to scheme the murder, but police homicide-detective, Max Anderson, is asking a lot of questions.

December 19, 2018 / Biography