Portrait of Jennie (1948)
Portrait of Jennie movie storyline. In 1934, impoverished painter Eben Adams meets a fey little girl named Jennie Appleton in Central Park, Manhattan.
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Port of Call – Hamnstad (1948)
Port of Call movie storyline. Berit is a factory girl fresh out of reformatory school and fresh from an attempted suicide by drowning when she meets a sailor named Gösta at a dance club.
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One Touch of Venus (1948)
One Touch of Venus storyline. Eddie Hatch is a window dresser for Savory’s department store. Whitfield Savory II, has just spent $200,000 on a statue of Venus for display in the store’s museum.
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Melody Time (1948)
Disney was known for combining his musical cartoon shorts into interesting feature-length anthologies and Melody Time is one of the best. But for the fact that all of the featured segments have musical themes, they vary widely in musical and artistic style. Included are the exciting “Bumble Boogie,” with a jazzy version of Rimski-Korsakov’s famed “Flight of the Bumblebee,” played by Freddy Martin and His Orchestra;.
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Act of Violence (1949)
Act of Violence movie storyline. Joe Parkson is a disabled war veteran who is out for revenge. The target of his wrath is his former commanding officer,
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Casablanca (1942)
Casablanca movie storyline. During World War II, Europeans who were fleeing from the Germans, sought refuge in America. But to get there they would first have to go Casablanca.
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Now, Voyager (1942)
Now, Voyager movie storyline. Repressed, middle-aged, frumpy, ‘ugly duckling’ spinster Charlotte Vale, from a wealthy Boston family, is controlled by her domineering, unloving mother.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice movie storyline. Frank Chambers is a hobo who stops at a rural diner for a meal and ends up working there.
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Gaslight (1944)
Gaslight movie storyline. This is a superb, definitive psychological suspense thriller from ‘woman’s director’ George Cukor. Previous Cukor films that were similar as period dramas.
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The Great Dictator (1940)
The Great Dictator storyline. In his first full “talkie” and his most financially-successful film, Chaplin plays a dual role as: Adenoid Hynkel, the great dictator of the film’s title.
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