1940’s

Crabbe And Weissmuller Star In Swamp Fire

Swamp Fire – 1946
Early action stars Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe duke it out in the Louisiana swamps in this 1940’s New Orleans movie directed by William H. Pine.
Swamp Fire centers around the hazardous lives of Mississippi River bar pilots.
Filmed on location in New Orleans and Pilot Town.

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Flame Of New Orleans Starring Marlene Dietrich

Flame Of New Orleans – 1941
Marlene Dietrich stars in this early New Orleans comedy as Claire Ledoux who convinces her fiance that she is two different women — a deception made necessary by the arrival of a man acquainted with her escapades in Europe.
Giraud has been  about to foreclose on a $150 loan made to a sea captain who needed the funds to court Claire. Get Claire’s “cousin” out of New Orleans before the wedding, Giraud tells the sea captain and the debt will be paid.

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John Wayne Stars In Lady From Louisiana

Lady From Louisiana – 1941
An early John Wayne feature made in New Orleans, Lady From Louisiana is  about a northern lawyer John Reynolds who travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the syndicate means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more involved in the shady activities and in foiling Reynolds’ attempts at prosecution.

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