In this animated warning against pushing up prices during wartime scarcity, an auctioneer manages to sell a basket of goods worth under $10.00 for $35.00. The message: "This is inflation." One of the first cel-animation films produced at the National Film Board.
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1944:
21 January 1944
Before his death, Mansour Pasha writes over his wealth to his two sons Omar and Othman; as the latter drowns, his wife gets a boy and claims he is Othman's son to ensure her share in the inheritance.
12 February 1944
Professional bullfighter pretends to his girlfriend that he's a doctor, because her father hates bullfighters and would never let her marry one.
21 September 1944
Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story.
23 March 1944
In this wartime western, an evil Nazi and his partner endeavor to sabotage a western gunsight plant.
28 April 1944
Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field.
06 March 1944
Inger lives at home with his parents. She suspects that she is pregnant. A doctor notes her pregnancy and urge her to seek the child's father.
23 December 1944
Sgt. Rusty Curtis of the U.S. Cavalry is unhappy about the Army's plan to replace horses with tanks so, after a medical discharge, he tries to buy his old military mount Sireson.
03 June 1944
Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged with a physical defect, but he tells no one of this.
16 December 1944
Mukta and Anand are childhood friends and love each other. But Mukta belongs to higher social class than Anand and her family wants to arrange her marriage with Jawahar, son of a rich man.
01 December 1944
Animated short from Halas and Batchelor encouraging the British public to post early for Christmas.
25 April 1944
U.S. Marshals "Nevada" Jack McKenzie and "Sandy" Hopkins go undercover to bust a gang of stagecoach robbers in this vintage Western serial.
26 August 1944
A sea captain about to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit is rescued from the gallows by two of his crewmen.
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