第二次世界大戦の戦意高揚映画として撮影され、戦争の荒波に巻き込まれながら気丈に生きていくミニヴァー夫人とその一家の人々の姿を感動的に描き、アカデミー作品賞、監督賞、主演女優賞など6部門を受賞した名作。
1939年のロンドン郊外。明るく美しいミニヴァー夫人は、建築技師の夫と3人の子供たちと幸福な日々を送っていた。しかし、第2次世界大戦にイギリスが参戦し、長男ヴィンや使用人が出征、残されたミニヴァー夫人たちにも戦火が…。
Charles, Kenneth's Batman
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5 year old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt. Kathleen meets and falls in love with a mysterious stranger from America, Kenneth Wayne. When John hears of this he is furious, and we learn that it was Kenneth's father, Jeremy, who had killed Moonyean years before. John carries his grudge against Jeremy to the new generation, and threatens to ruin his niece's happiness, but he softens in the end.
Soldier at Waterloo Station (uncredited)
空襲下のロンドン。ウォータールー橋で出会った将校クローニンとバレリーナのマイラは恋に落ち、結婚を誓う。だが新聞で男の戦死が伝えられると、マイラは身を落としてしまう……。ヴィヴィアン・リー主演による悲恋ストーリー。
Sentry
The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.
Reporter at Dock
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
Reporter (uncredited)
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
