Film Snail

War

Battle for Music

Battle for Music

April 1, 1943

Story of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in World War II, from going bust, to being taken over by the musicians to run itself. Starring many of the members of the orchestra themselves

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

April 1, 1943

Japanese war movie.

Corregidor

Corregidor

March 29, 1943

A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.

Jungle Drums

Jungle Drums

March 26, 1943

Superman discovers a secret Nazi base in the jungle.

Hangmen Also Die!

Hangmen Also Die!

April 15, 1943

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.

Aerial Gunner

Aerial Gunner

March 20, 1943

Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.

The Silver Fleet

The Silver Fleet

March 15, 1943

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?

The Moon Is Down

The Moon Is Down

March 14, 1943

The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.

Road to the Stars

Road to the Stars

March 13, 1943

The Purple V

March 12, 1943

German expatriate Fritz Kortner plays the largest role, as an anti-Nazi schoolmaster who helps a downed American flyer (John Archer) reached Allied lines with vital war information. As usual, the Nazis are incredibly stupid and lead-footed, enabling the flyer to accomplish his mission.

Assignment in Brittany

Assignment in Brittany

March 11, 1943

A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.

The Elusive Jan

The Elusive Jan

March 8, 1943

The film is about the struggle of Czechoslovak patriots against the Nazi invaders during the years of fascist occupation. The plot of the film is based on actual events that were reported after that time.

Guerrillas in the steppes of Ukraine

Guerrillas in the steppes of Ukraine

March 2, 1943

The film tells about the heroic struggle of Ukrainian farmers-partisans with nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic war.

Keep 'Em Slugging

Keep 'Em Slugging

March 1, 1943

A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.

Squadron Leader X

Squadron Leader X

March 1, 1943

Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British propaganda. Unfortunately for him he chooses a night when the Belgian resistance are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the channel. Before he knows it he is landing on the south coast of England. With MI5 hot on his trail, the fugitive tries to contact his old German émigré friends in London. But they have all been interned on the Isle of Man. How will he escape back to Germany ?

December 7th

December 7th

March 1, 1943

"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.

Tyttö astuu elämään

Tyttö astuu elämään

February 28, 1943

Nine Men

Nine Men

February 22, 1943

The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian and German troops until they can be relieved.

Somewhere on Leave

Somewhere on Leave

February 19, 1943

Private Randle (Frank Randle) and army pals, Privates Young (Dan Young) and Enoch (Robbie Vincent) are invited by Private Desmond (Pat McGrath) to spend some off-duty time at his stately home. Private Desmond is too busy courting an ATS girl (Antoinette Lupino) to notice the squaddies are running riot in his house.

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

February 19, 1943

A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.