Movies 1940 Page 12

A young woman criticized by her family for her dissipated life embarks on a new path.

Magda, the butcher's daughter, against the wishes of her father becomes an actress in the theater "Golden Mask". Kicked out of the house she meets...

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach...

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing...

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques...

The young opera singer Carla is in love with the talented young composer Michele, who wants to make it big with classical music and writes his first...

A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland...

In a small town in the countryside, the population is excited about the imminent arrival of a circus that brings excitement to the peaceful life of...

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle...

Ravana, the king of Lanka attains " Athma Linga " from Shiva and later he gets tricked by various people on his way back to home. Telugu adaptation...

Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.

Having tried his hand on the side, the middle peasant chose a collective farm in his native village and achieved a rich harvest, overcoming the...

An early example of social realism that reached its height with 'Udayer Pathey' and more memorably with 'Chhinnamul', 'Doctor' was meant as a...

A story about a life of a small village in Western Ukraine during 30-ies.

The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and...

Little Nikita, the son of polar scientist Sergei Ivanov, runs away from home with the intention of reaching the Arctic, where he believes his father...

A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.

Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers...

Nick Lucas sings "In a Little Spanish Town". This was shot on one of the sets from My Little Chickadee (1940).

A short film made by the Central Office of Information about how to cook Potatoes, with narration from Max Munden.

Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer.

Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.

Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.

The usual interesting sequences, depicting a home made sun dial, some gadgets for the modern kitchen. Professor Oakes, and Dorothy Lamour singing...

Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.

A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr. Christian to expose this fake and...

Second attempt to create a feature film out of the 200,000-plus feet of film which Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein shot during 1931-32 in Mexico...

Rebels and a singer cause trouble for two U.S. oil-drillers in South America...

Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.

Service with the Colors is a 1940 American short drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason. This drama is "dedicated to the soldiers of the United...

A small child pulls the pages off a calendar, one for each month, revealing a short skit on a holiday for that month

Popeye and Bluto show up simultaneously to take Olive to the movies. She needs to visit the hairdresser first, and tells the boys to take care of...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner...

Pluto is on the run after stealing a bone from Butch the bulldog and finds refuge in a carnival Hall of Mirrors.

The first of 4 full-length features produced by The March of Time, which was much more well known for the series of newsreels. The film used no...