1940s &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:1940s @settima@zirk.us Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:41:54 +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 The Chase (Arthur Ripley, 1946) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-746p <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Chase (Arthur Ripley, 1946)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 21/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Chase (1946).png)/div div class="caption" A man's hand holds up two first class tickets for March 21, destination Cuba. DP: Franz Planer./div div class="txt" "Have you ever been afraid? Really afraid?" ### – Lorna Roman /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #ArthurRipley #CornellWoolrich #RobertCummings #MichèleMorgan #SteveCochran #LloydCorrigan #JackHolt #DonWilson #PeterLorre #MichelMichelet #FranzPlaner #mystery #drama #crime #romance #FilmNoir #BookAdaptation #USA #1940s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Chase (Arthur Ripley, 1946)

Mar

21

The Chase (1946)

A man's hand holds up two first class tickets for March 21, destination Cuba. DP: Franz Planer.

“Have you ever been afraid? Really afraid?”

– Lorna Roman

#FilmDuJour #March #ArthurRipley #CornellWoolrich #RobertCummings #MichèleMorgan #SteveCochran #LloydCorrigan #JackHolt #DonWilson #PeterLorre #MichelMichelet #FranzPlaner #mystery #drama #crime #romance #FilmNoir #BookAdaptation #USA #1940s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-746p Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100 簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6tgz <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="occasion" melon/div div class="img" Kanzashi (1941).png)/div div class="caption" A traditional Japanese room with tatami mats. Boys at a table eat melon slices. A woman makes a phone call. The view through the window reveals a gnarly tree and a mountain in the background. DP: Suketarō Inokai./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #melons #fruit #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)

Mar

3

melon

Kanzashi (1941)

A traditional Japanese room with tatami mats. Boys at a table eat melon slices. A woman makes a phone call. The view through the window reveals a gnarly tree and a mountain in the background. DP: Suketarō Inokai.

 

#FilmDinner #melons #fruit #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-1-6tgz Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:41:04 +0100 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre-1948-pq22 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="occasion" 1925/div div class="img" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)/div div class="caption" The winning lottery numbers of February 14, 1925. DP: Ted D. McCord./div div class="txt" "A thousand men, say, go searchin' for gold. After six months, one of them's lucky: one out of a thousand. His find represents not only his own labor, but that of nine hundred and ninety-nine others to boot. That's six thousand months, five hundred years, scramblin' over a mountain, goin' hungry and thirsty. An ounce of gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that went into the findin' and the gettin' of it." ### – Howard /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #JohnHuston #BTraven #HumphreyBogart #WalterHuston #TimHolt #MaxSteiner #TedDMcCord #BookAdaptation #drama #adventure #western #USA #1940s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)

Feb

14

1925

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

The winning lottery numbers of February 14, 1925. DP: Ted D. McCord.

“A thousand men, say, go searchin' for gold. After six months, one of them's lucky: one out of a thousand. His find represents not only his own labor, but that of nine hundred and ninety-nine others to boot. That's six thousand months, five hundred years, scramblin' over a mountain, goin' hungry and thirsty. An ounce of gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that went into the findin' and the gettin' of it.”

– Howard

#FilmDuJour #February #JohnHuston #BTraven #HumphreyBogart #WalterHuston #TimHolt #MaxSteiner #TedDMcCord #BookAdaptation #drama #adventure #western #USA #1940s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre-1948-pq22 Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0100 Amore di ussaro (Luis Marquina, 1940) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-1fmk <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Amore di ussaro (Luis Marquina, 1940)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 1/div div class="occasion" 1900/div div class="img" Amore di ussaro (1940).jpg)/div div class="caption" Margarita (Conchita Montenegro) and her hussar Leonardo de Vargas (Luis Sagi Vela) hold each other on New Year's Eve when the year changes from 1899 to 1900. DP: Carlo Montuori./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #January #LuisMarquina #ConchitaMontenegro #LuisSagiVela #ConchaCatalá #AlbertoRomea #AnaMariscal #JoséRuizDeAzagra #CarloMontuori #drama #Italy #Spain #1940s/div /section ]]>

Amore di ussaro (Luis Marquina, 1940)

Jan

1

1900

Amore di ussaro (1940)

Margarita (Conchita Montenegro) and her hussar Leonardo de Vargas (Luis Sagi Vela) hold each other on New Year's Eve when the year changes from 1899 to 1900. DP: Carlo Montuori.

 

#FilmDuJour #January #LuisMarquina #ConchitaMontenegro #LuisSagiVela #ConchaCatalá #AlbertoRomea #AnaMariscal #JoséRuizDeAzagra #CarloMontuori #drama #Italy #Spain #1940s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-1fmk Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0100 Canon City (Crane Wilbur, 1948) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-27h5 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Canon City (Crane Wilbur, 1948)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 30/div div class="occasion" 1947/div div class="img" Canon City (1948)/div div class="caption" A calendar page. It's December 30, 1947. DP: John Alton./div div class="txt" "We're not here to play dominoes." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #CraneWilbur #ScottBrady #JohnAlton #drama #crime #JailBreak #FilmNoir #DocuDrama #thriller #HomeInvasion #CanonCity #Colorado #USA #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Canon City (Crane Wilbur, 1948)

Dec

30

1947

Canon City (1948)

A calendar page. It's December 30, 1947. DP: John Alton.

“We're not here to play dominoes.”

#FilmDuJour #December #CraneWilbur #ScottBrady #JohnAlton #drama #crime #JailBreak #FilmNoir #DocuDrama #thriller #HomeInvasion #CanonCity #Colorado #USA #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-27h5 Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100 姿三四郎 [Sugata Sanshirō / Judo Saga] (Akira Kurosawa, 1943) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-bc6j <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 姿三四郎 [Sugata Sanshirō / Judo Saga] (Akira Kurosawa, 1943)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 26/div div class="occasion" 8 p.m./div div class="img" 姿三四郎 (1943)/div div class="caption" A letter beckoning to come to Ukyō-ku, on December 26, at 8 o'clock. DP: Akira Mimura./div div class="txt" "On the night of December 26, at 8:00 on Ukyō-ku." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #AkiraKurosawa #TsuneoTomita #DenjirōŌkōchi #SusumuFujita #YukikoTodoroki #SeiichiSuzuki #AkiraMimura #MartialArts #judo #sports #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

姿三四郎 [Sugata Sanshirō / Judo Saga] (Akira Kurosawa, 1943)

Dec

26

8 p.m.

姿三四郎 (1943)

A letter beckoning to come to Ukyō-ku, on December 26, at 8 o'clock. DP: Akira Mimura.

“On the night of December 26, at 8:00 on Ukyō-ku.”

#FilmDuJour #December #AkiraKurosawa #TsuneoTomita #DenjirōŌkōchi #SusumuFujita #YukikoTodoroki #SeiichiSuzuki #AkiraMimura #MartialArts #judo #sports #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-bc6j Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100 La Terra Trema [The Earth Will Tremble] (Luchino Visconti, 1948) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-139c <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La Terra Trema [The Earth Will Tremble] (Luchino Visconti, 1948)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" Féte des Lumiéres/div div class="img" La Terra Trema (1948).jpg)/div div class="caption" Night fishing (via). DP: G.R. Aldo./div div class="txt" Lights on water for the final day of Féte des Lumiéres, 2025 "In Sicily, Italian is not the language of the poor." ### – title card /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #FéteDesLumiéres #LuchinoVisconti #GiovanniVerga #AntonioArcidiacono #GiuseppeArcidiacono #VeneraBonaccorso #NicolaCastorino #RosaCatalano #RosaCostanzo #AntonioPietrangeli #WillyFerrero #GRAldo #fishermen #fishing #ships #drama #BookAdaptation #Sicily #Italy #1940s/div /section ]]>

La Terra Trema [The Earth Will Tremble] (Luchino Visconti, 1948)

Dec

8

Féte des Lumiéres

La Terra Trema (1948)

Night fishing (via). DP: G.R. Aldo.

Lights on water for the final day of Féte des Lumiéres, 2025

“In Sicily, Italian is not the language of the poor.”

– title card

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #FéteDesLumiéres #LuchinoVisconti #GiovanniVerga #AntonioArcidiacono #GiuseppeArcidiacono #VeneraBonaccorso #NicolaCastorino #RosaCatalano #RosaCostanzo #AntonioPietrangeli #WillyFerrero #GRAldo #fishermen #fishing #ships #drama #BookAdaptation #Sicily #Italy #1940s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-139c Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0100 December 7th (John Ford + Gregg Toland, 1943) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/december-7th-1943 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" December 7th (John Ford + Gregg Toland, 1943)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 7/div div class="occasion" 1941/div div class="img" December 7th (1943)/div div class="caption" A Japanese person paints over the Japanese characters on their store's sign. AZUMA PHONE and SUS[HI obscured] can stay. DP: Gregg Toland./div div class="txt" "If that's Americanism, it's very hyphenated." ### – narrator\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #JohnFord #GreggToland #WalterHuston #HarryDavenport #DanaAndrews #PhilipAhn #AlfredNewman #documentary #docudrama #racism #WW2 #war #propaganda #PearlHarbor #USA #1940s/div /section ]]>

December 7th (John Ford + Gregg Toland, 1943)

Dec

7

1941

December 7th (1943)

A Japanese person paints over the Japanese characters on their store's sign. AZUMA PHONE and SUS[HI obscured] can stay. DP: Gregg Toland.

“If that's Americanism, it's very hyphenated.”

– narrator

#FilmDuJour #December #JohnFord #GreggToland #WalterHuston #HarryDavenport #DanaAndrews #PhilipAhn #AlfredNewman #documentary #docudrama #racism #WW2 #war #propaganda #PearlHarbor #USA #1940s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/december-7th-1943 Sun, 07 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0100 Careful, Soft Shoulders [Lady in a Quandry] (Oliver H.P. Garrett, 1942) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/careful-soft-shoulders-1942 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Careful, Soft Shoulders [Lady in a Quandry] (Oliver H.P. Garrett, 1942)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 7/div div class="occasion" 1941/div div class="img" Careful, Soft Shoulders (1942)/div div class="caption" Thomas Aldrich (James Ellison) and Connie Mathers (Virginia Bruce). DP: Charles G. Clarke./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #OliverHPGarrett #VirginiaBruce #JamesEllison #LeighHarline #EmilNewman #CharlesGClarke #PearlHarbor #WW2 #comedy #romance #USA #1940s/div /section ]]>

Careful, Soft Shoulders [Lady in a Quandry] (Oliver H.P. Garrett, 1942)

Dec

7

1941

Careful, Soft Shoulders (1942)

Thomas Aldrich (James Ellison) and Connie Mathers (Virginia Bruce). DP: Charles G. Clarke.

#FilmDuJour #December #OliverHPGarrett #VirginiaBruce #JamesEllison #LeighHarline #EmilNewman #CharlesGClarke #PearlHarbor #WW2 #comedy #romance #USA #1940s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/careful-soft-shoulders-1942 Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100