During WWII, adults are either off fighting or busy in the factories, so juvenile delinquency becomes a major problem back home. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Here Come the Co-eds (1945) Jean Yarbrough, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Peggy Ryan
Two bumblers become caretakers at an all-girls college. Read More »
Pardon My Sarong (1942) Erle C. Kenton, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Bruce
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest Read More »
Buffalo Bill (1944) William A. Wellman, Joel McCrea, Maureen O’Hara, Linda Darnell
A fictionalized account of the life of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. A hunter and Army Scout in the early part of his life Read More »
Lost in a Harem (1944) Charles Reisner, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marilyn Maxwell
Pete Johnson and Harvey D. Garvey, two inept magicians on tour in the Middle Eastern kingdom of Barabeeha Read More »
Rio Rita (1942) S. Sylvan Simon, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Kathryn Grayson
After being fired from their jobs as clerks in a pet store, Doc and Wishey, a couple of bumpkins Read More »
Heaven Only Knows (1947) Albert S. Rogell, Robert Cummings, Brian Donlevy, Marjorie Reynolds
Hard-bitten gambling boss Brian Donlevy rules his frontier community with brawn and bullets. Read More »
Who Killed Aunt Maggie? (1940) Arthur Lubin, John Hubbard, Wendy Barrie, Edgar Kennedy
Radio mystery script writer Sally Ambler is about to be married Read More »
Raiders of Sunset Pass (1943) John English, Eddie Dew, Smiley Burnette, Jennifer Holt
World War II is raging and the manpower shortage has hit the range since every able-bodied cowboy of military age is off fighting for Uncle Sam. Read More »
The Enchanted Forest (1945) Lew Landers, Edmund Lowe, Brenda Joyce, William Severn
A little boy lost in the woods is found and raised by Old John, a hermit, who teaches the boy about life in general and nature in particular. Read More »
Silver Bullet (1942) Joseph H. Lewis, Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, William Farnum
Wild Bill Jones is saved from three toughs by “Silver Jim” Donovan, a newcomer to Winchester. Read More »
City of Pain (1949) Mario Bonnard, Luigi Tosi, Barbara Costanova, Gianni Rizzo
The city of Pola is being evacuated after the peace conference of 1947 decided to assign the sovereignty to Tito’s Jugoslavia. Read More »
Father Takes a Wife (1941) Jack Hively, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Swanson, John Howard
Frederick Osborne, Junior is slightly agitated because his father, Senior Read More »
Whistling in the Dark (1941) S. Sylvan Simon, Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford
The operators of ‘Silver Haven’, a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money Read More »
The Small Voice (1948) Fergus McDonell, Valerie Hobson, James Donald, Howard Keel
The British writer Murray Byrne and his wife Eleanor stop to help two men in a car crash only to find they are criminals on the run. Read More »