1940s American films

For Me and My Gal

Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1942 IMDB Rating: 7

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

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Brother Orchid

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 7

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

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State Fair

Film Age rating: 1 Year: 1945 IMDB Rating: 7

During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa enters the mincemeat...

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I Was a Male War Bride

Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1949 IMDB Rating: 7

After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Brid...

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Edison, the Man

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 7

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early...

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Mighty Joe Young

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1949 IMDB Rating: 7

A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.

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I, Jane Doe

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1948 IMDB Rating: 7

While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discove...

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Three Strangers

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1946 IMDB Rating: 7

On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make...

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The House of the Seven Gables

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 7

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Cliffo...

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