1940s drama film stubs

The Quiet Duel

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1949 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Toshirō Mifune plays a young idealistic doctor who works at his father's (Takashi Shimura) clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when...

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Men of Boys Town

Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1941 IMDB Rating: 6.6

Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.

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Mickey

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1948 IMDB Rating: 6.4

A pretty, tomboyish teenager comes of age in an American small town.

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I'll Wait for You

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1941 IMDB Rating: 6.3

A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.

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Reaching from Heaven

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1948 IMDB Rating: 6.2

Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church. The stranger is helped mentally and physically by the minister and congregatio...

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Big City

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1948 IMDB Rating: 6.2

A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.

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Magnificent Doll

Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1946 IMDB Rating: 6.1

While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marr...

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The Hairy Ape

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1944 IMDB Rating: 6.1

Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.

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Timber Queen

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1944 IMDB Rating: 5.9

Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited is doing poorly, but Elaine gets an order in for a...

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