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: A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star in his family's vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback at which he received a medal from the president for his special contributions to the US, this is the life- story of George M. Cohan, who produced, directed, wrote and starred in his own musical shows for which he composed his famous songs.
Plot Keywords: musical, biography, musical film, history, patriotic, american, broadway ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The unemployed trombone player Glenn Miller is always broken, chasing his sound to form his band and hocking his instrument in the pawn house to survive. When his friend Chummy MacGregor is hired to play in the band of Ben Pollack, the band-leader listens to one Glenn's composition and invites him to join his band. While traveling to New York, Glenn visits his former girlfriend Helen Berger, in Boulder, Colorado, and asks her to wait for him. Two years later he quits the band and proposes Helen that moves to New York to marry him. After the success of "Moonlight Serenade", Glenn Miller's band becomes worldwide known and Glenn and Helen and their two children have a very comfortable life. Duting the World War II, Glenn enlists in the army and travels to Europe to increase the moral of the allied troops. In the Christmas of 1944, he travels from London to Paris for a concert to be broadcast; however his plane is never found in the tragic flight.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: musical biography, jazz, based on a true story, classic hollywood, musician's life, nostalgia, black and white film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of the boy, Willie, as he grows into manhood. Based on the best-selling Mississippi memoir by the late Willie Morris.
Plot Keywords: family, friendship, coming of age, dog, pet, loyalty, childhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A hapless teacher named Will Lamb is hired by a grim school in Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Lamb has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.—D.Giddings <darren.giddings@newcastle.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, horror, mystery, suspense, british film, black and white, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be ferocious. Along the way, he is given a tour of Walt Disney Studios, and learns about the animation process.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: animation, comedy, family, fantasy, adventure, disney, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After his wife discovers a telltale diamond bracelet, impresario Martin Cortland tries to show he's not chasing after showgirl Sheila Winthrop. Choreographer Robert Curtis gets caught in the middle of the boss's scheme. Army conscription offers Robert the perfect escape from his troubles- or does it?—Diana Hamilton <hamilton@gl.umbc.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, dance, broadway, world war ii era, fred astaire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood friend, Joseph Jefferson Parker, a famous war correspondent. But Chris's wife, Mary, is none to fond of Joe and tired of her husband's idolizing. On the eve of the Price's second-honeymoon trip to New York City, Joe arrives and tells Chris that he needs someone to pose as his wife in order to fool his boss in NYC, who thinks Joe got married to an overseas woman while on an assignment. Chris pushes Mary into posing as Joe's wife. In New York, this leads to many complications and misunderstandings, with Mary finally deciding to teach Chris and Joe a lesson by making them believe she is in love with Joe.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, marriage, misunderstanding, fake marriage, 1940s, black and white film, comedy ...
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: Beverly Ross moderates an 5:30 am radio show with swing music, dedicated to the local servicemen. Two buddies of her brother have a chance to meet her and both fall in love. One of them is a wealthy sponser, the other used to be his chauffeur, but before she can decide, which of them she likes more, the soldiers have their marching orders and are away to their destination.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, song and dance, world war ii era, lighthearted, nostalgic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A brave wartime copper (policeman) becomes a hero when he thwarts a plot to destroy a battleship. But then the rest of the police get the idea that he is one of the enemy agents.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, british, black and white, classic, police, humour ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1918, an English family are terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: horror, vampire, classic, black and white, 1940s, supernatural, gothic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO). On a side trip to New York, her vivid imagination leads her to True Love with naval hero Tommy Dooley; but increasingly involved Musical Comedy Complications follow.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, song and dance, world war ii era, actress, star ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: To land a rich husband, golddigger Marjory Stuart goes to Trinidad posing as a debutante. Beach boy Pete promptly unmasks her, but offers to help her catch his enemy, yachtsman Alfred Monroe. Marjory's pal Bubbles turns out to be the old flame of Pete's pal Wally. All the well-planned efforts to land Monroe end in slapstick; then Wally's voodoo priestess landlady gives him a love potion that works...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, romance, love, optimism, song and dance, world war ii era ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nazi spies are out to destroy a new submarine killer, the "Firefly", being developed by the British navy. A hapless waiter named George, after being rejected for military service three times, finally "joins" when, during an air raid, he is mistaken for a real sailor. He soon unwittingly stumbles into the secret hideout of the Nazi spies trying to destroy the Firefly. Complications ensue.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, romance, song and dance, world war ii era, british film, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Shipyard worker Bill Swanson writes a wartime play celebrating the American spirit. He meets theatre actress Julie Hampton, visiting the shipyard on a bond drive, and convinces her to read his patriotic opus. Enthusiastic at its potential, Julie is able to get the show produced, but Bill is dismayed when he discovers that its being turned into a musical. Withdrawing his option, he returns to his day job, but Julie isn't to be put off so easily.—Chris Stone <jstone@bellatlantic.net>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, world war ii era, hollywood, song and dance, love ...
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