Children of Paradise (1945), Saludos Amigos (1942), The Nazis Strike (1943), The Canterville Ghost (1944), Orchestra Wives (1942), Eyes in the Night (1942), Star Spangled Rhythm (1942), Thunder Rock (1942) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Wartime Film movies.
Storyline: Strolling indolently around the 1830s vibrant Parisian avenue called the Boulevard du Crime, the graceful and elusive courtesan, Garance, finds herself wrongfully accused of pickpocketing. But, amid a sea of jugglers, sideshow performers, streetwalkers, and crooks, the silently eloquent mime, Baptiste, comes to her rescue, only to hopelessly fall for her. And just like that, love's sweet torture befalls the delicate pantomimist, as the insufferable burden of knowing that the object of his desire can never belong to anyone, will heartlessly haunt him for years to come. Many have tried to seize her heart--the flamboyant thespian, Frédérick Lemaître; the criminal dandy, Pierre-François Lacenaire, and the imperious but loveless Count, Édouard de Montray--however, Garance, after so many barren years, now seems to need only one man. In the end, trusting a frail and modest rose is beautiful but cruel. Is there anyone who can accept the naked truth of an unrequited love?
Plot Keywords: french cinema, classic film, romanticism, theater, paris, 19th century, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a live action sequence in which Walt Disney himself gives a tour of his animation studios in California, the action shifts to South America where a collection of both stock and new characters appear in a series of shorts. In one segment, Donald Duck (Clarence Nash) attempts to navigate Lake Titicaca with an uncooperative llama, and in another, a brave little airplane crosses the dangerous Andes. Meanwhile, Goofy (Pinto Colvig) tries to act like a local in the Pampas.
Plot Keywords: animation, disney, music, comedy, anthology, documentary style, travel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this installment of the Why We Fight propaganda film series, we see the events of Nazi Germany's diplomatic and military acts of international aggression. One by one, we learn of the Nazi's consistently underhanded and relenting violation of every promise of peace and exploitation of their foes's attempts of appeasement until the invasion of Poland September of 1939 which led to Britain and France finally taking an armed stand against Hitler.—Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, nazi, documentary, propaganda, history, military ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 1600s, cowardly Sir Simon of Canterville flees a duel and seeks solace in the family castle. His ashamed father seals him in the room where he is hiding and dooms him to life as a ghost until one of his descendants performs a brave deed. Simon believes he may be saved when he meets Cuffy Williams, an American kinsman stationed with a troop of soldiers at the castle in 1943. Will this blood relative save the family honor, or will his blood be as yellow as the rest of the Cantervilles?—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, horror, fantasy, family, classic, black and white, ghost ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the bands tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.—Steve Fenwick <scf@w0x0f.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, marriage, 1940s, song and dance, jazz ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Blind detective Duncan Maclain is visited by old friend Norma Lawry, looking for help in getting rid of one of her old beaus, who is courting Norma's 17-year old step-daughter. When the old beau is found murdered, Norma is the chief suspect until Duncan (aided by his guide-dog Friday) pays a visit to her home and uncovers a plot to steal her husband's military secrets for the enemy.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: mystery, crime, detective, film noir, 1940s, american film, b-movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, world war ii era, paramount pictures, all-star cast, song and dance film, golden age of hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Attracted by a picture of Maybelle Pembroke, the Range Busters, bantering between themselves, head for the Pembroke ranch separetely. Crash arrives posing as a dude while Dusty arrives posing as Crash, a mixup having put his picture in the paper identified as Crash. Later Alibi arrives and the three go to work when outlaws trick the Pembroke ranch and it's neighbor into a gunfight with each other.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, propaganda, british film, black and white, drama, history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts paying attention to beautiful chorus girl Pat Lambert. Pat's boyfriend Bill Smith isn't impressed with Tommy even though Tommy gets him a boxing part in the show. When Tommy finds out that Pat and Bill were secretly together the night before the show opens, he angrily plans to turn the boxing scene with Bill into a real bout.—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, broadway, dance, performing arts, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Broadway producer Jonnie Demming courts big-name talent for his upcoming musical show, oblivious to the talent all around him, in his family and friends. When Jonnie finally lands Hollywood star Helen Hoyt for his cast, Helen herself tries opening Jonnie's eyes to the talents of his dad and sister. But Jonnie remains adamant. Will his family and friends launch their own show, in competition with Jonnie's?—Dan Navarro <daneldorado@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, song and dance film, romance, comedy, hollywood, 1940s, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.
Plot Keywords: horror, mystery, thriller, black and white, 1940s, american film, b movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the way to work, five defence workers contemplate their pasts and their own reasons for working.
Plot Keywords: war, drama, film noir, 1940s, world war ii, american film, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: As a ploy to gain publicity, a motion picture director wants his star actress to take a baby with her on a train trip. The director's secretary asks the train's engineer, an old boyfriend, for help. As the engineer ponders what to do, a stranger in the train station tells him that he has a baby that could be used. On board the train, the actress meets a young doctor whom she knew in school, and whom she is still in love with. The presence of the baby causes a series of misunderstandings between them, but the real problems begin when the engineer begins to suspect that the baby may have been kidnapped.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, hollywood, 1940s, black and white, romantic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Glimpy's surprisingly beautiful sister is getting married to Jack, a young engineer, and moving to a 'bargain' suburban house neither has ever seen. During the honeymoon, the East Side Kids decide to fix up the house for the newlyweds...but mistakenly pick the 'haunted' house next door, which is occupied by some mysterious live men, dodging in and out of secret panels and clearly up to no good...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, horror, slapstick, black and white, low budget, b movie, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne (Lisbeth Movin), whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. The intervention of Anne's older but kindly husband, Pastor Absalon (Thorkild Roose) saved her mother -- but now, urged on by his overbearing mother, he refuses to help Marte. When Absalon's son returns home and is attracted to Anne, it's a matter of time before her family destiny catches up with her.
Plot Keywords: drama, thriller, historical, religious, moral dilemma, danish film, black and white ...
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