Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), The Glenn Miller Story (1953), My Dog Skip (2000), The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941), The Reluctant Dragon (1941), You'll Never Get Rich (1941), Guest Wife (1945), Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best World War Ii Era movies.
Storyline: Band Leader Kay Kyser wants to take a holiday, but his publicist Charlotte has promised that he'll give a concert for defense plant workers. Due to the fact that his vocalist has quit to get married, the plant owner's daughter Julie sings instead. But Kay dislikes her idea of joining the band.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, song and dance, world war ii era, vintage, hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This mystery is set around a London music hall show, featuring a lot of well known music hall stars of the time, (playing themselves) like Jack (Blue Pencil) Warner doing his stage routine for the first time on film.... and impressionist Beryl Orde, Ivy Benson and her all ladies band, The Skating Avalons, Five Lai Founs, etc The show's ventriloquist act is murdered but we learn, there are a few characters that have a motive. The mystery of who killed him is investigated by a star struck fraud detective, Claude Hulbert, who is only there to hang around one of the female stage stars, whom he has a big crush on. This detective is rather clumsy and somewhat dim witted (which Claude Hulbert was known for playing at the time and is based on his own stage persona) but as he tries to find out who the murderer really is, he finds a number of possible suspects who all have something to hide, including a stranger who has been hanging around the back stage and is clearly acting suspiciously...as the film goes on, we find, the motive for the murder appears to be linked to a currency counterfeiting scheme that is linked to a mysterious Mr Harriman who has a box seat reserved for the show but has not taken his seat, while all this is going on back stage, the show must go on so we get to see the plot develop as the music hall acts perform their songs and routines on stage..... The murderer is finally revealed by the ventriloquist's 'dummy'......—mch2469
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, fantasy, song and dance, puppet, slapstick, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An adaptation of Noel Coward's play traces a number of years in the life of a middle-class London family.
Plot Keywords: family drama, world war ii era, british film, social change, working class, life struggles, marriage ...
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