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Barbary Coast Gent (1944) on 1 september 1944
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Wallace Beery, Binnie Barnes, John Carradine, Frances Rafferty, Chill Wills, Noah Beery Sr.
Rating61%
Honest Plush Brannon (Wallace Beery) is a confidence man from the Barbary Coast in San Francisco. He is engaged to Li'l Damish (Binnie Barnes) who is a saloon owner. Plush is in need of money to prove he can stand on his own. His plan to come by some money is disturbed by his ex-companion, Duke Cleat (John Carradine), who accuses Plush of doing him wrong in the past. After a quick showdown, Plush manages to shoot and wound Duke badly. Because of this, Plush is forced to leave town, and decides to take the train to Denver to find his luck. Aboard the train he meets an industrial railroad Millionaire, Bradford Bellamy I (Donald Meek) and convinces him he is about to serve the man in a blackmailing process. Bellamy I wants to throw Plush off the train, but instead they make a deal, that Plush will hold a speech in Bellamy I's name in Gold Town. Plush pretends to be Bellamy I's financial voice and is greeted as such in Gold Town. Even his old partner with whom he used to rob stage coaches, Johnny Adair (Ray Collins), believes him. Johnny's daughter, Portia (Frances Rafferty) is engaged to Bellamy I's grandson, Bradford Bellamy III (Bruce Kellogg). When Plush is attending a ceremony and is about to dedicate a cornerstone in the city, he accidentally discovers that the stone has gold in it. Plush prevents an article declaring that Bellamy III is engaging another woman, an Eastern debutante, to reach the press, and since Bellamy III have no intentions of engaging anyone but Portia, he is grateful to Plush. When the gold finding in the cornerstone is confirmed, Plush clais the ground where the stone is, and everyone in Gold Town wants to invest in his newly founded gold-mining company. Back in San Francisco, Duke has recovered from his injuries and seeks revenge. He finds out about Plush's luck, and at gun-point he forces Plush to give all his earnings to him. Broke and homeless, Plush is forced to rob a Wells Fargo payroll stagecoach. He leaves a poem at the crime scene, and after a few more robberies, he is known as the outlaw "Jingle Bill". The only stage coach that never gets robbed is the one Johnny drives. Plush uses his booty to start up the mining for gold in his company, and soon enough he strikes gold. In an attempt to catch the robber, Plush is forced to stage a robbery against Johnny's coach, in which Plush participates. Plush is shot and wounded by Johnny. Meanwhile, Li'l has come to Gold Town to warn Plush that Duke has been at her place, stolen a bunch of Plush's poems, and is headed to Gold Town. After the fake robbery, suspicion falls on Plush to be the robber. When Duke confronts Plush in the street, the two men once again have a showdown, ultimately shooting each other. Duke dies from his wounds, and the stolen poems are found on his body. Duke is taken for Jingle Bill, but Plush steps up and confesses he is the robber. He waves goodbye to Li'l, Bellamy III and Portia, as he is off to serve a one-year sentence in prison.
The Plastics Inventor (1944) on 1 september 1944
, 7minutesDirected by Jack King
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about birds, Mise en scène d'un canard, Children's films
Actors Clarence Nash
Rating70%
Donald écoute à la radio un programme lui expliquant comment fabriquer un avion parfaitement opérationnel réalisé complètement en plastique...
Secret Mission (1942) on 30 august 1944
, 1h34Directed by Harold French
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Hugh Williams, James Mason, Michael Wilding, Carla Lehmann, Roland Culver, Karel Štěpánek
Rating54%
During the Second World War, two British army officers, Garnett and Gowan, together with Private Clark, who used to live in France and ran a café with his French wife, and Raoul, a member of the Free French forces, are dropped off on the coast of occupied France. Their mission is to collect intelligence on German military strength in the area, prior to an airborne raid. They rendezvous at the chateau used as German headquarters, which is Raoul's ancestral home. His sister Michele still lives there, but is resigned to cooperation with the occupiers, and is too frightened to assist in the men's mission.
Youth Runs Wild (1944) on 1 september 1944
, 1h7Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Jean Brooks, Vanessa Brown, Glen Vernon, Ben Bard
Rating48%
Dark Mountain (1944) on 1 september 1944
, 56minutesDirected by William Berke
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Robert Lowery, Ellen Drew, Regis Toomey, Eddie Quillan, Elisha Cook, Jr., Ralph Dunn
Rating54%
Robert Lowery stars as a park ranger who helps hide his ex girlfriend who has unknowingly married a gangster (Regis Toomey)
Goin' to Town (1944) on 1 september 1944
, 1h9Directed by Leslie Goodwins
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Chester Lauck, Florence Lake, Andrew Tombes, Barbara Hale, Dick Elliott, Grady Sutton
Rating62%
Janie (1944) on 2 september 1944
, 1h42Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Joyce Reynolds, Edward Arnold, Robert Hutton, Ann Harding, Alan Hale, Robert Benchley
Rating59%
Janie is a free spirited teenage girl living in a small town. World War II brings the establishment of an army camp nearby. Janie and her bobby soxer friends have their hearts set afire by the prospect of so many young soldiers so close.
Oh, What a Night! (1944) on 2 september 1944
, 1h12Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Edmund Lowe, Jean Parker, Marjorie Rambeau, Alan Dinehart, Sr., Pierre Watkin, Ivan Lebedeff
Rating59%
A man is keeping a secret from his young niece: he's an international jewel thief!
Till We Meet Again (1944) on 30 august 1944
, 1h25Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ray Milland, Barbara Britton, Walter Slezak, Lucile Watson, Konstantin Shayne, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sokoloff
Rating69%
En France, sous l'occupation allemande, un couvent cache des aviateurs alliés. Un major allemand, aidé du maire du village, menace la mère supérieure qui se sacrifiera. Une future jeune nonne décide de faire évader un aviateur. Après un long voyage où la nonne fait connaissance avec le monde extérieur, elle se fait prendre par le major. Il décide, après qu'elle a réussi par ruse à faire évader l'aviateur, de la donner en pâture à ses hommes. Le maire, scandalisé, se rue sur le major et dans la lutte la nonne est tuée par accident.
Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears (1944) on 2 september 1944
, 7minutesGenres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Wolves in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Ruby Dandridge, Vivian Dandridge, Lillian Randolph, Ernest Whitman
Rating60%
C'est l'histoire revisitée de Boucles d'or et les Trois Ours, dans laquelle ces derniers sont musiciens de jazz, à laquelle s'ajoutent les personnages du Petit Chaperon rouge et du Grand méchant loup.