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1940s Movies

Forever Amber (1947)

August 30, 2020January 11, 2023 - by greatmovies

Forever Amber movie storyline. Amber St. Clair (Linda Darnell) is 16-years-old by the time the revolution of Oliver Cromwell is ended and the House of Stuart has returned to the British throne in 1660, and she is none too happy in the home of her Puritanical foster parents, and soon departs for London under the reluctant “patronage” of Bruce Carlton.

1960s Movies

Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

August 24, 2020January 14, 2023 - by greatmovies

Mutiny on the Bounty movie storyline. Based on a true story: The Bounty, a British sailing ship commanded by Captain Bligh sails for Tahiti to pick up breadfruit plants and take them to Jamaica where they are to be planted and help supply the British with a compact, easy to grow, nutritious plant. Lt. Christian is the executive officer – that is, second in command of the vessel.

1960s Movies

Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (1960)

June 22, 2020February 14, 2023 - by greatmovies

Please Don’t Eat the Daisies movie storyline. University drama professor Laurence Mackay and his wife Kate Mackay prefer the quiet of home life – however quiet theirs can be living in a New York City apartment with four rambunctious adolescent and/or infant sons and a sheepdog – than the high life often associated with the New York theater. That is why they plan to move to the country whenever they can find a suitable house.

1960s Movies

The Sound of Music (1965)

July 28, 2019July 21, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Sound of Music movie storyline. Restless novice postulant Maria at the Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg, Austria is persuaded by the Reverend Mother to take a governess position for the motherless.