Movies 1940 Page 32

Jane Frazee made her starring film debut in the Republic B-plus musical Melody and Moonlight. The plot is motivated by the show-biz aspirations of...

A man violates company policy by getting married.

A dance film idealising poverty made mainly to showcase Bose's talents. Labour leader Suryashankar is jailed for trade union activities and, when...

A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of...

The conflict between ducklings and frogs escalates into war. However, a lightning strike makes the fighters realize the trivial nature of their...

A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.

An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.

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

Shows the shortage of civilian goods during World War II and illustrates, using diagrams, how uncontrolled buying leads to inflation. Bidding for...

Mickey's parents are constantly quarreling because his mother serves hash every Monday night. The kids decide to put on a radio skit to try to get...

Miquette is a young woman whose beauty and vivacity increase the clientele of her mother's tobacco shop. A Barrymoresque actor believes that Miquette...

The Durango Kid is a sort of Robin Hood of the West who helps the lovely Walters (who replaced Starrett's usual love-interest, Iris Meredith), the...

In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's freight business but also hunt down his murderer. A certain...

In a sea port, where he has landed after a long voyage, a sailor meets a girl. To overcome her reluctance, he gives up on leaving again and works as...

The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio,...

Elmer takes up wildlife photography but finds his subject, a rabbit, much too rascally.

Mickey Mouse is about to build Pluto a doghouse when Pluto digs up a magic lamp that speaks in African-American vernacular. It offers to do Mickey's...

Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.

In this crime drama, a renowned eye surgeon goes mad and murders the lover of his wife. He is later given a life-sentence to be spent in a mental...

A writer poses as a shy butterfly hunter who has a fortune and is hounded by reporters.

In this old-time Western from director George Sherman, peaceable cowpoke Jack Summers takes the job of sheriff to help his adopted town in its bid to...

A WWII film about children evacuated from Britain and sent to Canada for their safety. The film begins in England with children seeking shelter as...

Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through...

Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.

Shows how important luck can be in a person's life.

Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.

Spunky is kidnapped and sold at an auction to a cruel Italian peddler. It's up to Hunky to save him.

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

A government agent uncovers the truth behind a series of raids on a freight company.

When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill Saunders who arrives to find his father...

Marshal Tim Donovan has been sent to investigate a series of holdups. Posing as a card sharp he soon believes he knows who is tipping off the...

Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.

When Popeye tells Olive Oyl that he will propose to her the next morning, she has a dream that their four boys will run roughshod over their house.

Barney's going fishing, but just as he's getting ready to hook a whole school of trout, a rather persistent duck keeps getting in the way.

A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.

After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of...

After a handful of non-formula westerns, Charles Starrett returned to the mixture as before in Thundering Frontier. Starrett plays Jim Fillmore, kind...