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Showing posts with label 1939. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1939. Show all posts

Saturday, January 1, 2022

Straight to Heaven (1939)









































Starring:
Lucky John is head of a syndicate that is distributing rotten canned food to unsuspecting Negroes in Harlem. Joe Williams is sent to jail for murder and placed on trial for his life. Williams' wife plays a big part in clearing her husband of murder charges engineered by Lucky John.

Sunday, November 8, 2020

Gone With The Wind (1939)





























































Starring:
Presented as originally released in 1939. Includes themes and character depictions that may be offensive and problematic to contemporary audiences. Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler.