Film Index

American cinema: 1940s

The Wolf Man (1941)
George Waggner

After 18 years, Larry Talbot returns to his family home to take the place of his elder brother, who died in a hunting accident...   [More...]

The Woman in Green (1945)
Roy William Neill

London is terrorised by a serial killer who preys on young women, cutting off their right forefingers after slaying them in the most brutal manner...   [More...]

The Woman in the Window (1944)
Fritz Lang

Richard Wanley is a humdrum college professor who is looking forward to an uneventful few weeks of bachelor living while his wife takes their children away for the annual holiday...   [More...]

Woman of the Year (1942)
George Stevens

Sam Craig is a down-to-Earth sportswriter on a New York newspaper. Tess Harding may have a column on the same paper, but she appears to come from another world - a society girl who has become both a prominent political journalist and a torchbearer for feminism...   [More...]

Wonder Man (1945)
H. Bruce Humberstone

Buster Dingle is a popular performer at a swanky New York nightclub, the Pelican Club. The sole witness to a gangland killing, his life is threatened when mobster boss Ten Grand Jackson escapes from police custody...   [More...]

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Michael Curtiz

In 1942, the veteran star of Broadway George Michael Cohan is appearing in a musical satire in which he plays the President of the United States...   [More...]

You Belong to Me (1941)
Wesley Ruggles

Whilst skiing in the Rockies, millionaire playboy Peter Kirk comes a cropper when doctor Helen Hunt, a less adept skier, crosses his path...   [More...]

You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
William A. Seiter

Robert Davis, an American dancer stranded in Buenos Aires without a peso to his name, is desperate to find work. His friend, bandleader Xavier Cugat, suggests that he should try to impress hotel owner Eduardo Acuña by performing at his eldest daughter's wedding...   [More...]

You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Sidney Lanfield

Martin Courtland is a womanising theatrical producer on Broadway whose latest fancy is one of the dancers in his company, Sheila Winthrop...   [More...]

Young Ideas (1943)
Jules Dassin

When best-selling author Josephine Evans mysteriously disappears, her agent Adam Trent appeals to her children, Jeff and Susan, to find her and bring her back to New York...   [More...]

Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Robert Z. Leonard

Lift operator Sheila Regan can hardly believe her good fortune when she is invited to attend an audition to become a Ziegfeld girl and appear in the hit show Ziegfeld Follies...   [More...]


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