1940s &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:1940s @settima@mograph.social Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:50:33 +0200 簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-tpvc <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 10/div div class="occasion" 1941/div div class="img" Kanzashi (1941).png)/div div class="caption" A formal paper with the date stamp for August 10, Showa 16 (1941). DP: Suketarō Inokai./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #HiroshiShimizu #MasujiIbuse #KinuyoTanaka #HirokoKawasaki #TatsuoSaitō #ChishūRyū #ShinIchiHimori #TakeshiSakamoto #TakaakiAsai #SuketarōInokai #comedy #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)

Aug

10

1941

Kanzashi (1941)

A formal paper with the date stamp for August 10, Showa 16 (1941). DP: Suketarō Inokai.

 

#FilmDuJour #August #HiroshiShimizu #MasujiIbuse #KinuyoTanaka #HirokoKawasaki #TatsuoSaitō #ChishūRyū #ShinIchiHimori #TakeshiSakamoto #TakaakiAsai #SuketarōInokai #comedy #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-tpvc Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5ccy <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 9/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Lady from Shanghai (1947)/div div class="caption" Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) and husband Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane) in the dizzying modernist finale. DP: Charles Lawton Jr../div div class="txt" "You need more than luck in Shanghai." ### – Elsa Bannister /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #OrsonWelles #SherwoodKing #RitaHayworth #EverettSloane #TedDeCorsia #WilliamCastle #HeinzRoemheld #CharlesLawtonJr #RudolphMaté #JosephWalker #BookAdaptation #drama #romance #mirrors #FilmNoir #Chinatown #USA #1940s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)

Aug

9

The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) and husband Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane) in the dizzying modernist finale. DP: Charles Lawton Jr..

“You need more than luck in Shanghai.”

– Elsa Bannister

#FilmDuJour #August #OrsonWelles #SherwoodKing #RitaHayworth #EverettSloane #TedDeCorsia #WilliamCastle #HeinzRoemheld #CharlesLawtonJr #RudolphMaté #JosephWalker #BookAdaptation #drama #romance #mirrors #FilmNoir #Chinatown #USA #1940s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5ccy Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200 Night Has a Thousand Eyes (John Farrow, 1948) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gtxy <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Night Has a Thousand Eyes (John Farrow, 1948)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)/div div class="caption" Mentalist John Triton (Edward G. Robinson, middle) and two of his conspirators. DP: John F. Seitz./div div class="txt" A continuity error later on in the movie makes it August 4. "I'd become a sort of a reverse zombie. I was living in a world already dead, and I alone knowing it." ### – John Triton\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #JohnFarrow #CornellWoolrich #EdwardGRobinson #VictorYoung #JohnFSeitz #BookAdaptation #FilmNoir #USA #1940s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Night Has a Thousand Eyes (John Farrow, 1948)

Aug

3

Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)

Mentalist John Triton (Edward G. Robinson, middle) and two of his conspirators. DP: John F. Seitz.

A continuity error later on in the movie makes it August 4.

“I'd become a sort of a reverse zombie. I was living in a world already dead, and I alone knowing it.”

– John Triton

#FilmDuJour #August #JohnFarrow #CornellWoolrich #EdwardGRobinson #VictorYoung #JohnFSeitz #BookAdaptation #FilmNoir #USA #1940s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gtxy Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qc3r <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="occasion" 1940/div div class="img" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to toggle image/summary The Killers (1946)/div div class="caption" The July 21 headline. DP: Elwood Bredell./div div class="txt" "Don't ask a dying man to lie his soul into Hell." ### – Lt. Sam Lubinsky /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #July #RobertSiodmak #ErnestHemingway #BurtLancaster #AvaGardner #EdmondOBrien #AlbertDekker #SamLevene #MiklósRózsa #ElwoodBredell #drama #crime #FilmNoir #thriller #sports #BookAdaptation #USA #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)

Jul

20

1940

spoiler warning: click to toggle image The Killers (1946)

The July 21 headline. DP: Elwood Bredell.

“Don't ask a dying man to lie his soul into Hell.”

– Lt. Sam Lubinsky

#FilmDuJour #July #RobertSiodmak #ErnestHemingway #BurtLancaster #AvaGardner #EdmondOBrien #AlbertDekker #SamLevene #MiklósRózsa #ElwoodBredell #drama #crime #FilmNoir #thriller #sports #BookAdaptation #USA #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qc3r Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200 D.O.A. [Dead on Arrival] (Rudolph Maté, 1949) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-9zjc <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" D.O.A. [Dead on Arrival] (Rudolph Maté, 1949)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 18/div div class="X" /div div class="img" D.O.A. (1949)/div div class="caption" A man's hand signs a car rental contract dated July 18. DP: Ernest Laszlo./div div class="txt" "You knew who I was when I came here today. But you were surprised to see me alive, weren't you? But I'm not alive, Mrs. Philips. Sure, I can stand here and talk to you. I can breathe and I can move. But I'm not alive. Because I did take that poison, and nothing can save me." ### – Frank Bigelow The Life Magazine displayed at the San Francisco newspaper stand where Frank Bigelow stops is the issue of September 12, 1949, with Yugoslavia's leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito on the cover./div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #July #RudolphMaté #EdmondOBrien #DimitriTiomkin #ErnestLaszlo #USA #FilmNoir #crime #action #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

D.O.A. [Dead on Arrival] (Rudolph Maté, 1949)

Jul

18

D.O.A. (1949)

A man's hand signs a car rental contract dated July 18. DP: Ernest Laszlo.

“You knew who I was when I came here today. But you were surprised to see me alive, weren't you? But I'm not alive, Mrs. Philips. Sure, I can stand here and talk to you. I can breathe and I can move. But I'm not alive. Because I did take that poison, and nothing can save me.”

– Frank Bigelow

The Life Magazine displayed at the San Francisco newspaper stand where Frank Bigelow stops is the issue of September 12, 1949, with Yugoslavia's leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito on the cover.

#FilmDuJour #July #RudolphMaté #EdmondOBrien #DimitriTiomkin #ErnestLaszlo #USA #FilmNoir #crime #action #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-9zjc Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200 La diosa arrodillada [The Kneeling Goddess] (Roberto Gavaldón, 1947) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k1ft <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La diosa arrodillada [The Kneeling Goddess] (Roberto Gavaldón, 1947)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="occasion" cake/div div class="img" La diosa arrodillada (1947).png)/div div class="caption" A woman's manicured hand holds up a glass of champagne next to what appears to be an opulent wedding cake. DP: Alex Phillips./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #cake #champagne #RobertoGavaldón #MaríaFélix #ArturoDeCórdova #RosarioGranados #FortunioBonanova #RodolfoHalffter #AlexPhillips #melodrama #drama #romance #crime #thriller #Mexico #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

La diosa arrodillada [The Kneeling Goddess] (Roberto Gavaldón, 1947)

Jun

13

cake

La diosa arrodillada (1947)

A woman's manicured hand holds up a glass of champagne next to what appears to be an opulent wedding cake. DP: Alex Phillips.

 

#FilmDinner #cake #champagne #RobertoGavaldón #MaríaFélix #ArturoDeCórdova #RosarioGranados #FortunioBonanova #RodolfoHalffter #AlexPhillips #melodrama #drama #romance #crime #thriller #Mexico #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k1ft Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:29:47 +0200 Black Friday (Arthur Lubin, 1940) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k1mm <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Black Friday (Arthur Lubin, 1940)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Black Friday (1940)/div div class="caption" DP: Elwood Bredell./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #ArthurLubin #BorisKarloff #BelaLugosi #HansJSalter #FrankSkinner #ElwoodBredell #FilmNoir #SciFi #drama #thriller #USA #1940s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Black Friday (Arthur Lubin, 1940)

Jun

13

Black Friday (1940)

DP: Elwood Bredell.

#FilmDuJour #June #ArthurLubin #BorisKarloff #BelaLugosi #HansJSalter #FrankSkinner #ElwoodBredell #FilmNoir #SciFi #drama #thriller #USA #1940s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k1mm Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200 El gran calavera [The Great Madcap] (Luis Buñuel, 1949) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-t3vk <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" El gran calavera [The Great Madcap] (Luis Buñuel, 1949)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 31/div div class="X" /div div class="img" El gran calavera (1949)/div div class="caption" Lobbycard. DP: Ezequiel Carrasco./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #LuisBuñuel #AdolfoTorrado #ManuelEsperón #EzequielCarrasco #theatre #Mexico #comedy #1940s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

El gran calavera [The Great Madcap] (Luis Buñuel, 1949)

May

31

El gran calavera (1949)

Lobbycard. DP: Ezequiel Carrasco.

#FilmDuJour #May #LuisBuñuel #AdolfoTorrado #ManuelEsperón #EzequielCarrasco #theatre #Mexico #comedy #1940s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-t3vk Sun, 31 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-c3bh <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="X" /div div class="img" My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)/div div class="caption" Nina Foch as Julia Ross… or is she… Julia's lying on a made bed, looking over her shoulder at two middle-aged men and an elderly woman standing in the doorway to her room. DP: Burnett Guffey./div div class="txt" – You haven't forgotten us again, have you, Marion? – You know perfectly well I'm Julia Ross! ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JosephHLewis #NinaFoch #AnthonyGilbert #BurnettGuffey #crime #suspense #drama #mystery #thriller #BookAdaptation #1940s #USA ★★★★☆ /div /section ]]>

My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945)

May

5

My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

Nina Foch as Julia Ross… or is she… Julia's lying on a made bed, looking over her shoulder at two middle-aged men and an elderly woman standing in the doorway to her room. DP: Burnett Guffey.

– You haven't forgotten us again, have you, Marion?

– You know perfectly well I'm Julia Ross!

#FilmDuJour #May #JosephHLewis #NinaFoch #AnthonyGilbert #BurnettGuffey #crime #suspense #drama #mystery #thriller #BookAdaptation #1940s #USA ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-c3bh Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-hzvg <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 24/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Notorious (1946)/div div class="caption" Devlin (Cary Grant) and Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman). DP: Ted Tetzlaff./div div class="txt" And January 9.\ "Dry your eyes, baby; it's out of character." ### – Devlin\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #AlfredHitchcock #CaryGrant #IngridBergman #ClaudeRains #RoyWebb #TedTetzlaff #thriller #mystery #romance #USA #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

Apr

24

Notorious (1946)

Devlin (Cary Grant) and Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman). DP: Ted Tetzlaff.

And January 9.

“Dry your eyes, baby; it's out of character.”

– Devlin

#FilmDuJour #April #AlfredHitchcock #CaryGrant #IngridBergman #ClaudeRains #RoyWebb #TedTetzlaff #thriller #mystery #romance #USA #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-hzvg Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200