Movies 1940 Page 43

Popeye has a new car; Olive wants a driving lesson. Things don't go well.

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

The stooges are singing comedic waiters, enlisted by two doctors to try and cheer up a depressed little girl, whose banker-father has gone missing...

Documents the long and arduous journey made by Muslims every year, from North Africa to Mecca. Footage inside the city was filmed by a Muslim crew.

Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.

An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The...

Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.

Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy...

Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger...

The drought-plagued ranchers of Sundown have to market their cattle at a loss in order to meet mortgage payments held by banker Cylus Cuttler. Then,...

A late period home movie with Man Ray and his lovely friend Juliet Browner lounging together in the US. Man Ray had returned to America when the...

Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the...

J.T. Gimlet's department store is closed, and the mice are going on a tour, led by the same W.C. Fields mouse as in Little Blabbermouse. First, the...

A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his...

Two men searching for black pearls are marooned on an island when their crew mutinies. There they run into a beautiful girl who had been washed up on...

Porky finds out that Ali-Baba and his Dirty Sleeves plan to attack the fort; it's up to him to go warn the fort. He gets there to discover everyone...

A Pete Smith Specialty. A documentary that explains the answers to questions about Portuguese man-of-war fish and the Rosetta Stone, among others.

This ethnographic and historical silent 16mm cinematic jewel was filmed in 1940 by Sifrid Miladinov – a professional photographer and amateur...

Tommy Lewis, the son of a big time racketeer, is enrolled in military school under an assumed name as protection from the notoriety of his father....

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...

A documentary about the events leading up to World War II and the first year of the war, compiled largely from Paramount Pictures newsreels of the...

It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 spooks...

A barker guides us through a sideshow, a menagerie, and on to the big top, for a series of typical Avery gags. For example, the trapeze artists, the...

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

In Vaudeville Deluxe, Cornell assembles footage of performers, like a man who balances in his mouth a frame that supports a seated woman. (Release...

Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.

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.

This entry in MGM's Passing Parade series looks at the meaning of dreams, including one by Abraham Lincoln that foretold his death.

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

Victor Young and his Orchestra play "Tiger Rag".

An English fellow lectures about his trip to the Gobi desert to find a dinosaur egg.

Under Pete's Smith's narration, this one-reeler tells the story of the training of three new recruits in the Canadian Northwest Mounted. When they...

Photographer Rudy Burckhardt shows us the ebb and flow of people rushing about Manhattan. Equally exhilarating in his novel approach to snap images...

Humphrey Jennings’s wartime short rallies Britain’s countryside, showing fields ploughed up from fallow, seed sown, and crops raised on once-idle...

Little Cute Chickie Duck loves little lucky Dinky Duck but they have a quarrel, which leads their parents to have a quarrel, which leads to a...

This short film focuses on the mysterious and legendary Seri Indians who live in a utopian colony off the west coast of Mexico.

With great optimism Britain re-constructed after World War I but ignored the threat from the Gathering Storm of Nazi aggression.

This issue of RKO's Information Please series, based on the radio program featuring most of the same people, has Howard Lindsay, co-author and...

Questions and answers on various subjects, from Lady Godiva to the Panama Canal.

Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town.