1940s English-language films

Heaven Can Wait

Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1943 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets He...

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Sitting Pretty

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1948 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But whe...

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Love Crazy

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1941 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

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This Gun for Hire

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1942 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates...

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Battleground

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1949 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already see...

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Green for Danger

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1946 IMDB Rating: 7.4

In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?

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Fighting Mustang

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1948 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Filmed back-to-back with three other Sunset Carson vehicles in 1947, this Yucca Pictures Western starred the former Republic cowboy as a Texas Ranger chasing a gang of rustlers into the notorious outl...

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Criss Cross

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1949 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Burt Lancaster plays Steve Thompson, a man who seals his dark fate when he returns to Los Angeles to find his ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne DeCarlo) eager to rekindle their love against all better judge...

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