Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Mientras su marido lucha en la guerra, Anne Hilton intenta superar los problemas económicos y el racionamiento alquilando una habitación al Coronel Smollet. Lo malo es que su hija Jane tiene un aventura con el nieto de Smollet. (FILMAFFINITY)
El detective Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) y su fiel ayudante el doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce) se enfrentan al colaboracionista nazi Profesor Moriarty. Moriarty tiene entre sus planes secuestrar a un científico británico que ha creado una nueva mira de bombardero para atacar al ejército alemán.
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the average person carries.
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
During World War Two, Daffy Duck owns a junkyard which collects scrap metal to use in building weapons to continue the Allied fight against the Axis powers. Hitler reads about Daffy's scrap pile and about Daffy's stated intent to win the war with junk and, after throwing a fit and chewing a carpet like a mad dog, orders Daffy's scrap pile destroyed.
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues.
Borneo, 1941, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Cuando los japoneses ocupan la isla, la escritora estadounidense Agnes Newton Keith es separada de su marido e internada con su hijo en un campo de prisioneros dirigido por el enigmático coronel Suga.
Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the army. Ine struggles to prevent the sale.
September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the fate of the world changed forever, the Phoney War began: eight months of uncertainty, preparations, evacuations and skirmishes.
Un variopinto grupo de mujeres intenta adaptarse sus nuevas vidas después de alistarse en el Cuerpo del Ejército Femenino.
Un soldado y una dulce muchacha se enamoran y contraen matrimonio, a pesar de las interferencias de los miembros más neuróticos de la familia disfuncional de ella.
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
In this WW II musical, a group of lovely college co-eds, realizing that there is a shortage of single young men, decide to begin rationing their dates so that all of them can have some fun. This is beneficial for the campus wimp who suddenly finds himself the hottest property on campus.
This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig was blinded in an accident while playing baseball. He eventually acquired a guide dog and now works in a defense plant.
This early public information film puts out an appeal for more women to take up munitions work - showing training centres, opportunities for work in the aircraft industry as well as the tempting prospect of a fun social life. (source: British Film Institute)
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
They raised children, baked cakes... and built world-class fighter planes. Sixty years ago, thousands of women from Thunder Bay and the Prairies donned trousers, packed lunch pails and took up rivet guns to participate in the greatest industrial war effort in Canadian history. Like many other factories across the country from 1939 to 1945, the shop floor at Fort William's Canadian Car and Foundry was transformed from an all-male workforce to one with forty percent female workers.