Lost / Missing Films /TV Of The 1940s
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1. Confidential Lady (1940)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jill Trevor vows revenge on newspaper baron Sir Joshua Morple, who she holds responsible for ruining her father. Her very public antics to draw attention to Morple's despicable conduct come... See full summary »
Director: Arthur B. Woods | Stars: Ben Lyon, Jane Baxter, Athole Stewart, Ronald Ward
2. Dr. O'Dowd (1940)
76 min | Drama
A disgraced doctor has a chance to redeem himself when a diphtheria epidemic ravages the community, and one of its victims is his son.
Director: Herbert Mason | Stars: Shaun Glenville, Peggy Cummins, Mary Merrall, Liam Gaffney
3. His Brother's Keeper (1940)
70 min | Drama
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Clifford Evans, Tamara Desni, Una O'Connor, Peter Glenville
4. Murder Will Out (1939)
65 min | Crime, Drama
Loder and Baxter become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads disappear, including the man who had given them the jade.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: John Loder, Jane Baxter, Jack Hawkins, Hartley Power
Votes: 18
5. The Good Old Days (1940)
79 min | Comedy
A noble child is kidnapped by a chimney sweep and saved by strolling players.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Max Miller, Hal Walters, Kathleen Gibson, H.F. Maltby
6. Deadlock (1943)
59 min | Crime
A murderous twin gets his comeuppance.
Director: Ronald Haines | Stars: John Slater, Cecile Chevreau, Molly Hamley-Clifford, Hugh Morton
7. Squadron Leader X (1943)
90 min | War, Drama
Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players cigarettes, a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British ... See full summary »
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Eric Portman, Ann Dvorak, Walter Fitzgerald, Martin Miller
Votes: 24
8. The Night Invader (1943)
81 min | Drama, Thriller
An English agent parachutes into occupied Holland during World War II to retrieve some important papers. He poses as an American newspaperman and a Gestapo officer during his adventures. He... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Mason | Stars: Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Carl Jaffe, Sybille Binder
9. Flight from Folly (1945)
94 min | Musical
An unemployed dancer poses as a nurse and sets her sights on playboy composer Clinton Clay. After he is dumped by his Russian wife, the "nurse" finally gets her man.
Director: Herbert Mason | Stars: Pat Kirkwood, Hugh Sinclair, Sydney Howard, Tamara Desni
10. For You Alone (1945)
105 min | Musical
Director: Geoffrey Faithfull | Stars: Lesley Brook, Jimmy Hanley, Dinah Sheridan, G.H. Mulcaster
11. Scottish Symphony (1946)
38 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Harold Baim | Stars: James McKechnie, George Strachan
12. We Do Believe in Ghosts (1947)
36 min | Fantasy, Short
Director: Walter West | Stars: Valerie Carlish, Arthur Dibbs, John Latham
13. But Not in Vain (1948)
73 min
The film is set in 1944, in German-occupied Netherlands. There is an ongoing famine. Jan Alting is a a Dutch patriotic farmer, who uses his farm as a place of refuge for Jews, communists, ... See full summary »
Director: Edmond T. Gréville | Stars: Raymond Lovell, Carol van Derman, Martin Benson, Agnes Bernelle
14. Television Dancing Club (1947–1964)
30 min | Music
Popular dance music series.
Stars: Victor Silvester, Doreen Freeman, Susan Franks, The Frank Spencer Professional Formation Team
15. The BBC Television Newsreel (1948–1954)
15 min | News
BBC Television's first presentation of news items on the pattern of cinema newsreels.
Stars: Richard Baker, Edward Halliday
16. Come Dancing (1949–1998)
Music
Exhibition dancing series.
Stars: Peter West, Angela Rippon, Charles Nove, Terry Wogan
Votes: 26
17. The Charlie Chester Show (1949–1960)
60 min | Comedy
Stars: Charlie Chester, Eric 'Jeeves' Grier, The George Mitchell Singers, Marian Miller
18. Somewhere in Politics (1948)
108 min | Comedy
Joe Smart is a radio repairman who enters the political arena competing in an upcoming election against his own boss. Joe wins the election, but encounters loads of trouble in the process.
Director: John E. Blakeley | Stars: Frank Randle, Tessie O'Shea, Josef Locke, Sally Barnes
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