1945 Movies

Painted Boats In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.

A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger.

Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

A reporter learns that an executed killer has taken over a scientist’s mind.

During WW II, one of the hits of the London stage is a play about a murderer who strangles his victims. The actor who plays the strangler identifies so strongly…

Molly, an actress desperate for work, decides to get it by “playing the part” of an experienced housekeeper. It turns out that the butler at her new household is doing…

A group of young actresses reminisces about their days as part of a gang of kids, headed by Mickey McGuire. Their memories take the form of clips from episodes of…

Famous detective and his trusty side-kick Tinker are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.

Rangers Dave and Panhandle arrive and are joined by Lawyer Tex to try and stop the range war between the ranchers and the sheep men. After they jail the ranchers…

The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.

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In the English village of Denley, the Women’s Institute (a wartime program channeling village products to the troops) is electrified to hear that they’ll be visited by Eleanor Roosevelt. As…

A seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor’s wife.

Black is after both Taylor’s saloon and the Lane ranch. Fuzzy takes the gold from his and Billy’s mine and buys Taylor’s saloon. This puts him and Billy in conflict…

Dragging along her spineless boyfriend Johnny, hare-brained secretary Kitty O’Day is unstoppable as she tries to determine her boss’s murderer. In her exuberance she and Johnny keep running into more…

World War II has begun, but Parisian neighbors Dalban (biographer of Napoleon) and Mme. Ancelot still feud over his claim that her great- great-grandmother did *not* sleep with the Emperor!…

Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott…

Married couple Jim & Ella Merchant set up their single friend Al Schmid on a blind date with Ruth Hartley. The two hit it off and begin dating. A welder,…

George Harvey Bone is a composer in early 20th century London, who is under stress because he is writing a piano concerto. Due to this stress, he gets black outs…

In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a old man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his “life”…

Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood friend, Joseph Jefferson Parker, a famous war correspondent. But Chris’s wife, Mary, is none to…

Joan Hollingsworth is the younger sister of Ethel and their mother believes Ethel is entitles to all the advantages until she acquires a husband, but Joan thinks otherwise. Forbidden to…

A drama set during World War II. A tale of adultery and desertion.

With the railroad coming to Red Rock, trouble is expected and Billy has been sent ot help his friend Fuzzy who is the town’s Sheriff, Judge, and barber. When the…

Women in the life of prizefighter John L. Sullivan.

Bringing a herd of cattle to Dave Crockett, Billy halts before going through the pass where many herds have been rustled. He is right as there are two men after…

In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward…

Lawyer Malone’s two zany friends embroil him in detective work once too often, and the police are after all three. So Malone must accompany Jake and beautiful Helene on their…

In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra “Sandy” Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Sandy, knowing that the railroad is to…

In WWII Pat Jamieson is a scientist working, with Government support, on a high-altitude oxygen mask for fighter pilots. But he has nowhere to conduct his research in secret until…

In the 1945 propaganda film commissioned by the US War Department, we see how the B-29 bomber came into being and watch it on aerial bombing missions in Japan during…

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa’s alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles:…

The jumpy chess editor at a newspaper accidentally gets involved in some murders at a sleazy tavern run by a pair of bizarre brothers.

Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews), thrown off a bus for not having the fare, begins to frequent a diner called “Pop’s Eats” , whose main attraction is a beautiful waitress by…

In flashback, New York nightclub pianist Al Roberts hitchhikes to Hollywood to join his girl Sue. On a rainy night, the sleazy gambler he’s riding with mysteriously dies; afraid of…

On the death of her mother, the vivacious Clio Dulaine returns from Paris to her childhood home in New Orleans to seek revenge for the humiliation her mother suffered there…

In Edinburgh in 1831, Dr. Wolfe MacFarlane runs a medical school where Donald Fettes is a student. Fettes is interested in helping a young girl who has lost the use…

Once again, as in ‘Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid (1942)’, Beaky Buzzard is sent out by his Italian-voiced Mamma to bring home something to eat. While his brothers fetch a…

A hitch-hiking stranger manages a lift from a young woman into the town he’s destined for, and she’s from. Both land up in jail, twice, as the small town and…