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1940s Lost Movies

Public list by WPS with 18 movies or TV shows/series

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Keeper of the Bees(1947)

1h 8min | Drama

Michael Worthington, an elderly owner of an apiary, befriends an embittered artist, Jamie McFarlaine, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Jamie falls in love with Alice, but the romance is almost doomed by the gossip-spreading of a meddlesome neighbor.

Directed by John Sturges

Miss Malini(1947)

Miss Malini created at least one immortal character ‘Sampath’. Life is a constant struggle for Malini, a poor young woman with an ailing father.She reluctantly accepts stage actor-friend Sundari’s suggestion to go on stage, and joins her theatre group, Kala Mandhiram.Success smiles on her and she soon becomes an idol of the masses. Sampath, a suave swindler, befriends Malini and takes control of her life. He persuades her to start her own theatre company. A puppet in his hands, Malini severs ties with those who have helped her in the past such as Sundari.Soon she is in debt and back at the bottom of the ladder. Sampath abandons her. Sundari and others come to her rescue and Malini goes back to Kala Mandhiram and begins her life anew, sadder but certainly wiser!

Directed by Kothamangalam Subbu - With Pushpavalli, Javar Seetharaman, Gemini Ganesan

King of the Mounties(1942)

3h 16min | Western, Adventure

King of the Candian riding police is up against Japs and Nazis who are about to invade Canada. They just want to clear the way with a new futuristic plane called "The Falcon" first, but that's not gonna happen if Kig has his way.

Directed by William Witney - With Allan Lane

Tobie Is an Angel(1940)

1h 11min | Comedy

Tobie is a hopeless daydreamer. He always has his head in the clouds, and this inevitably gets him into trouble with his employer. In the end, Tobie loses his job as a fairground performer and sinks into a state of abject despair.

But Not in Vain(1948)

1h 14min
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Farmer Jan Alting, who has disowned his son for collaborating with the nazis, provides shelter for a Jewish couple, a wanted communist and a rebel aristocrat. When his son returns, Jan is faced with the stark moral choice of failing those to whom he has given refuge, or conspiring with them to kill his own son.

Dr. O'Dowd(1940)

1h 16min | Drama

Marius O'Dowd is an Irish doctor who is often drunk. His daughter-in-law Moira dies during a serious operation which O'Dowd is performing. Although O'Dowd is not to blame, his son Stephen suspects that Moira died due to O'Dowd operating while under the influence of alcohol, and accuses him of criminal neglect.

Squadron Leader X(1943)

1h 39min | Drama, War

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 propaganda. Unfortunately for him he chooses a night when the Belgian resistance are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the channel. Before he knows it he is landing on the south coast of England. With MI5 hot on his trail, the fugitive tries to contact his old German émigré friends in London. But they have all been interned on the Isle of Man. How will he escape back to Germany ?

The Turners of Prospect Road(1947)

1h 28min | Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby.

Directed by Maurice J. Wilson - With Wilfrid Lawson

Zindagi(1940)

2h | Drama

The story of an unemployed graduate who falls in love with a woman who ran away from her cruel husband.

The Day England Falls(1942)

1h 41min | War

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Shigeo Tanaka

Vellinakshatram(1949)

- No description / details available yet. -

With Miss Kumari

Laranja da China(1940)

1h 20min | Comedy, Music

- No description / details available yet. -

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Canto de amor(1940)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Julio Irigoyen - With Nelly Omar, Warly Ceriani, Tino Tori, Herminia Velich

Kartinah(1940)

Titi loses her mind after her beloved child passed away. His husband, Suria is in love with Kartinah, the nurse. But he does not want to have two wives.

Directed by Andjar Asmara - With Ratna Asmara, Astaman

Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus(1942)

An uncle discusses the life of Martin de Porres with his niece. de Porres was a late sixteenth-century Peruvian who was elevated to sainthood in 1962 by Pope John XXIII.

The Betrayal(1948)

3h 3min | Drama

In this film, African-American Leroy Collins struggles with the onus placed on him by Society when he falls in love with a white woman.

Directed by Oscar Micheaux

Pay With Your Soul(1941)

The film depicts the lives of two families. There is Basuki who always puts other’s interests first, while his wife, Suryati who only thinks about herself. There is also Umar with his immoral behavior, who sells his daughter Djuliah to Asnan, a loan shark, when he is in debt. This tragedy makes Ruhiyat, Djuliah’s boyfriend, heartbroken.

Alibabavum 40 Thirudargalum(1941)

2h 37min | Comedy, Action

First Tamil adaptation of the story Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

Directed by K. S. Mani - With N. S. Krishnan, T. A. Madhuram
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