Movies 1940 Page 47

The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been murdered by person or persons unknown. The new...

The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.

A mother dinosaur hatches three little cuties, but the fourth is "ugly." He gets an inferiority complex because his brothers won't play with him, and...

An English peace judge in an Irish district is married to an Irishwoman. She is a caring patriot. He is heavily indebted by a life of luxury, and...

A middle-aged auto sales manager is having poor results with his staff, so he gets some advice from his hanky-wearing father.

Ozzie and his orchestra play a few tunes.

A man returns to the town where he abandoned his wife and daughter for ten years.

A classic about an anteater who makes life rough for a colony of ants. In the ant community, the queen spreads warnings of their greatest enemy, the...

Edited version of the 1938 Republic serial "The Lone Ranger."

Dr. Bluto sails off to Darkest Africa for exploration. Popeye, who stayed behind, hears a radio report that Bluto is lost and sets sail - on a raft -...

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

Donald is washing windows on a high-rise; Pluto is his assistant, hauling the rope for the platform and refilling buckets but mostly sleeping. And...

“A successful human target act of two brothers is sorely tried by the efforts of a gold digging blues singer to split them up.” - BFI.

Religious melodrama about the Virgin of Guadalupe.

The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and...

Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.

Filmed operetta about a wealthy Provencal man who puts those lining up for his inheritance through a series of colorful adventures, only to reveal to...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 February 1940.

Newlyweds Bret (Tom Brown) and Margie (Nan Grey) both aspire to show-biz careers: he wants to be a songwriter, while she is desirous of becoming a...

This one-reel film was produced during the middle of the Second World War. It purports to offer a portrait of the British people, in broad and in...

Edgar, a broken-down race horse, becomes a fugitive from a glue factory and is ousted from his park bench and chased by the police. He upsets a...

David Bradley creates a faithfully suspenseful adaptation of a story by Saki which boasts an inadvertent post-modern attitude.

The story concentrates on a travelling medicine show maintained by Bobby Clark and his relatives Minerva Urecal, Earle Hodgins and Joyce Bryant....

Universal's Ragtime Cowboy Joe is a modern western with a dash of music, not unlike the standard fare at Republic Pictures. The title character is a...

George Pal's third and final cel-animated commercial story film made for Lever Brothers product Rinso Soap. It's wash day, Grandmother Bear is coming...

Gran'pop monkey runs a printing press while evading the advances of his amorous secretary and suffering the mischievousness of the two young family...

How to make porridge using a haybox.

An open can of gunpowder is knocked over when a fight breaks out in a mine. An escaping thug knocks a lit torch onto the trail which in turn sets off...

Terry Kelly is leaving for college, and Ma Kelly and Uncle Pat invite his friends and sweetheart Kitty to the house for a going-away party. The...

A Cartune short featuring Punchy.

While a reception is being prepared for the Queen, a baby feeds from a bottle of milk, restores vigor to the schoolboy doing his calculations, to the...

The Two Curious Puppies wander into a theater and run afoul of a trickster magician's rabbit, a playful seal and an intimidating little bird.

In the second of the "Billy the Kid" series from PRC that starred Bob Steele, Billy the Kid is being held on a trumped-up murder charge in a Mexico...

This Traveltalk series short celebrates San Francisco, past and present.

A look at Bali, in the Dutch East Indies, 90 miles long, 45 miles wide, and home to a million people. After a quick reference to its history, we see...

Doctor Satan drops the Copperhead through a trap door and activates a sliding wall in the cell beneath to crush him.

James A. FitzPatrick takes a tour of the Fiji Islands. The short depicts the different types of natives that inhabit the islands, and shows villages...