Movies 1940 Page 13

A romantic story of a noble lady who wanted to live without the bonds of marriage, but her desire for a child led her - carefully disguised - into...

The priest in Solby borrows 2,000 kroons from the parish council treasury to pay for one of his parishioners' hospital stays in Germany. Marianne,...

In a poor neighborhood in Mexico City, two gangs of kids fight for control of the center where they work as "boleros", musicians or announcers....

The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is...

Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're...

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.

A millionaire appoints an administrator to control his daughter's overspending.

Roop Kumari (Leela Desai) a famous court dancer is forbidden entry into a temple monastery run by a strict disciplinarian Priest. The cast listed...

Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to...

Some youngsters from the city, visiting the countryside, have fun tricking naive local boys.

A father falls in love with his son's mistress whom he has forced to emigrate to force him to break up. More carefree than a schoolboy, he ruins...

With a rubber bone as a lure, Donald Duck tries to entice Pluto to try his mechanical dog washer. When the bone gives Pluto trouble, Donald tries a...

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York...

After Hou Yao moved to Singapore in 1940, he continued to work for the Shaw Brothers and made a handful of films, including Tiga Kekasih, before...

Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations....

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

Successful playwright goes undercover to get new material and finds romance.

Porky checks into a hospital with a tummyache; he has the bad luck to encounter a patient posing a "Dr. Chilled-Air" who is a bit too eager to...

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...

Siege is a 1940 documentary short about the Siege of Warsaw by the Wehrmacht at the start of World War II. It was shot by Julien Bryan, a...

When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.

A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The...

While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she...

The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint"...

This film was originally made in black-and-white 3-D for the 1939 New York World's Fair, and proved so popular that it was remade in 1940 in color...

A homily on the duty to save, in the guise of one of the "Albert" rhyming monologues, recited by Stanley Holloway.

Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the...

A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.

Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials...

It's 1860 and the old Spanish land grants are being surveyed. Montez is after part of Don Regas' rancho and gets the surveyor to alter the boundary....

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents...

Russell Hayden, taking a break from playing Hopalong Cassidy pictures, stars as Renn Frayne, a college-educated youth heading westward who finds more...

A disaster truck, which is equipped to meet practically any emergency that arises in the community; In Oklahoma a breeder of under-slung cattle,...

Olive has a map that shows the location of her secret gold mine, but while she's showing it to Popeye, claim jumper Bluto photographs it and gets...

This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US...

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...

Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a...

Boat building father and son join the river patrol service and get caught-up in a spy ring.