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1940s Movies

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

August 31, 2020January 11, 2023 - by greatmovies

Miracle on 34th Street movie storyline. At the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the actor playing Santa is discovered to be drunk by a whiskered old man. Doris Walker, the no nonsense special events director, persuades him to take his place.

Going My Way (1944)

July 26, 2020January 22, 2023 - by greatmovies

Going My Way movie storyline. Father Fitzgibbon has been the parish priest at St. Dominic’s in New York City for forty five years. The parish faces financial and social problems which the diocese believes cannot be solved by Father Fitzgibbon’s traditional and conservative approach to running the parish. The bishop appoints progressive Father O’Malley, originally from St. Louis, to, on the surface, assist Father Fitzgibbon at St. Dominic’s.

Double Indemnity (1944)

July 27, 2019July 24, 2023 - by greatmovies

Double Indemnity storyline. In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients,