1941-1950

It may be the first time they have used the theory of relativity in a story.Read More »

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The Town was a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1945. It presents an idealized vision of American life, shown in microcosm by Madison, Indiana.Read More »

A couple of rich girls at a private boarding school find themselves mixed up in gambling and blackmail, and must steal from their parents to pay their gambling debts.Read More »

Synopsis:
Eben Adams is a talented but struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. One day, after he finally finds someone to buy a painting from him, a pretty but odd young girl named Jennie Appleton appears and strikes up an unusual friendship with Eben.Read More »

A bitter look back at responsibility for the war, a new interpretation of democracy as popular justice instead of license, and encouragement for women to assert themselves. A widow with three sons and an outspoken daughter relies on her militarist brother-in-law to manage the family during the war. The oldest son is jailed for pacifist thoughts, and the uncle breaks his niece’s engagement as a result. The two younger sons are drafted and both die, and by the end of the war the widow realizes that her brother-in-law’s counsel has all been self-aggrandizement. She throws him out and joyfully receives her newly released pacifist son as morning dawns for the liberal family.

Winner of Kinema Jumpo #1 for the year 1946.Read More »

A woman impulsively murders her sister after discovering she has been having an affair with her fiancé, and later plans on killing the little girl who may have witnessed the crime.Read More »

Synopsis
In 1779, the Marquis de Montauran returns to France and becomes the figurehead of a royalist uprising known as the Chouans. Their Republican enemies recruit the aristocrat Marie de Verneuil to capture the Marquis and thereby weaken the resolve of the Chouans. Unfortunately, Marie falls in love with the Marquis and is prepared to do anything so that she can marry him…Read More »

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A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.Read More »

Journalist Åke Bergström is sacked from the newspaper he’s working at because of an article he wrote about the condition in Swedish prisons. To show his boss he was right he and his friend, the author Sune Berger, agree to fake the murder of Sune, so that Åke can study the prison from the inside…Read More »