Movies 1944 Page 43

Some happy mice are listening to an old radio program that features their hero, Mighty Mouse!

Training and duties of a British policeman.

Farmers take up arms against miners whose high water pressure mining operations are destroying their farms with mud and water runoff.

Dry Gulch Trading Post owner Kurt Fabian advances money on mortgages to the local settlers to finance an irrigation program. Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim...

An ace fighter pilot captain expects to get leave, but instead is ordered to Washington, where a colonel explains that mounting casualties among...

In Madrid, Spain, at the end of the 19th century, the young and reckless Basilio seems to be the only person who perceives the spectral presence of...

A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.

A high school bandleader captures the interest of a popular co-ed.

Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes...

A full-blown re-election piece for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the expense of Republican presidential candidate Thomas Dewey. Roosevelt is...

An usher at a radio station studio pretends to be an executive at the station in order to help a pretty girl become a singer.

Dan Stanton and Condon are foreclosing on a group of ranchers in order to gain a land-monopoly. They have one of the ranchers, whose property...

Film reportage of a kinetic, abstract work by Richard Mortensen.

Fuku-chan was one of the most popular newspaper comic strip boy-characters in Japan at the time. The film portrays a submarine attack on an enemy...

Bugs, the Wolf and bobby-soxer Red chase each other around while Grandma is off working at Lockheed aircraft.

In this western, two cowboys go to buy fresh horses for the cavalry and end up taking on two badguys and a female vigilante.

Also known as Ghost Crazy. Three goofballs run up against ghosts and a giant gorilla in a haunted house.

Private Snafu learns about inflation

California logger Bill Cardigan must save his stand of redwoods from being bought by unscrupulous Dan Fallon, a logging company owner from Michigan.

When Billy Carson's uncle is lynched as a supposed rustler, Billy arrives looking for the murderers. He finds that Steve Kirby holds a forged note on...

An Englishman and Frenchman sharing a hotel room discover their children are fighting on the same side, French Resistance and R.A.F.

An explanation of the increasingly important tactical rôle of air power, and the difficulties inherent in fulfilling this rôle on occasions,...

In the town of Nowhere, the main street is divided by a broad green line. The mice live on one side. The cats live on the other, and never cross over...

Animated cartoon from the U.S. Army Signal Corps.

This Carey Wilson Miniature takes a further look at prophecies by 16th century seer Nostradamus.

This 1944 newsreel documents arrivals at a Wellington wharf from the Middle East: New Zealand soldiers and Polish children. For the refugees it was...

The Le Donne Trio's Hotsy Totsy.

Actually, Popeye and Bluto are already there. They visit a nightclub, where the featured singer/dancer is, of course, Olive Oyl.

An unclassified US Navy introductory training film detailing the duties and training required of radio operators (aka radiomen).

A marshal goes after a bandit gang who is robbing stagecoaches and that, unbeknownst to him, is led by one of his town's prominent citizens.

Popeye and Bluto pass by Olive's blacksmith shop and are smitten. Olive needs help, and of course both of the boys offer, and demonstrate their...

Propaganad film about the fight against nazism.

Bluto disguises himself as Superman in order to impress the comic book hero's biggest fan, Olive Oyl. A jealous Popeye becomes a real superhero by...

Abou Ben Boogie Release Date: 9/18/44 Direction: James Cullhane Story: Ben Hardaway and Milt Schaffer Animation Layout: Art Heinemann Animation:...

In the final push of World War II, with Germany and Japan on the ropes, Eddie Bracken urges the American people to buy more war bonds.

A Dave Fleischer produced animated short.

The drive from Riverside, California to Phoenix, Arizona is affectionately known as the Cactus Trail. Starting in Riverside, sights of note include:...

In an attempt to prevent his daughter from spending her money needlessly on sweets, Mr. Moppet tells Lulu the story of The Grasshopper and The Ant....

A Soundie with Apus and Estrellita.