Search results for "1947"

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

Popeye is taking Olive on a boat ride when she spots a pirate ship. They are soon captured, and Popeye has to rescue Olive from the (initially charming) pirate captain….

Popeye and Olive are feeding squirrels in the park when the rich and elegant Count Marvo (Bluto), the magician (and practical joker), rides up on his horse and steals Olive…

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

An attempt to bring the work of surrealist artists to a wider public. The plot is that of an average Joe who can conjure up dreams that will improve his…

Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner….

A documentary short detailing the life of Italians living on the Po River in the 1940s.

Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a…

Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.

Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is…

Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she’s approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes…

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy’s mate.

An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic…

Upset at a new Broadway musical mocking The Nine Muses, Greek goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth to land a part in the show and change it.

In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank…

A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband’s family.

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone’s efforts to separate them.

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?

Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary.

After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during…

Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate’s heiress. The girl is already engaged, so he…

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman…

The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from…

A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer’s daughter amid postwar unrest.

A shy California farm girl falls head-over-heels in love with Barry Burnett, a fugitive from a chain gang building a road through the wilderness.

In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.

A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.

“Kilroy Was Here” was a popular expression during World War II, but it’s not much fun to John J. Kilroy, who has to try to live with all the jokes…

Crime Mystery directed by Lionel Tomlinson.

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to…

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins’ dreams of escape keep him going, but how can…

Jean Loring has her men illegally killing and selling game. Roy suspects her and gets himself invited to stay at her ranch. Investigating he finds the freezer where the slaughtered…

A mill-owner’s ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband’s political career.

Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she “opens” for a delayed Shakespeare play…with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her…

“Les jeux sont faits,” is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the…

Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It’s later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had…

A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oil fields while he searches for a valuable map hidden in plain sight.