Movies 1940 Page 47

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

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...

A ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure.

In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. However, he changes his mind when he falls in...

Enriqueto, the proud owner of a splendid mustache, feels his heart divided between the kindly Manolita and the feckless Lilí. (A redubbed version of...

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

A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The Sanzo Ikkou continues its westward journey, on a...

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

Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby's mine and Hoppy suspects it may...

Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between the townspeople and Poe Daggett and his gang. He...

Sniffles the mouse is in the country for a restful vacation of fresh air, enjoyment of nature, and peace and quiet.

A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's...

The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of...

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...

This is Roekiah's first film with her new partner, Djoemala, after her separation with Rd. Mochtar.

In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.

The modest Sandro does not dare to reveal his love to Maro, who, in turn, is very jealous of Sandro’s friendship with a female football instructor....

Joe Mason suffers from amnesia and is often in trouble. Catherine Foster befriends him and they marry. After a jolt jogs his memory, he remembers...

A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.

The two friends, Fy and Bi, come wandering along the country road as so many times before without a destination and - without food. Hunger torments...

Holiday traditions celebrated in Sweden

The Happy Tots are a group of tiny elves. They decide to build a rocket and blast off to Mars.

Reverend Jesse Hampton has a bone to pick with the management of Club Harlem, a wildly popular nightspot where drinking and dancing are the rule. No...

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

A comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers

A shy man invents in front of his friends a love affair with a singer but circumstances will lead him to conquer her.

Against a background of bluish light, several objects appear: a square, a circle, and a set of rods. As the background color occasionally varies in...

Gabby is constable in the village, and the mayor is on his case to catch pig thieves.

Police work during World War II in Britain.

Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy.

Wartime public information film detailing the health service facilities available to Britain's children, from mothercraft classes to PE lessons and...

The Lorraine Page orchestra plays the title song, and Martha Mears and Bills Roberts sing it in this soundie.

This Lone Ranger spoof pits the Lonesome Stranger and his horse Sliver against a gang of Mexican banditos known as the Killer Diller Boys.

Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of...

Tomorrow is Theirs examines provisions for secondary school education during the war, arguing for the importance of maintaining excellent, thorough...

A beautiful blonde places a stolen diamond on an unsuspecting man. Later, she returns to retrieve it.

After their mother remarries, two brothers cause chaos at their Aunt's home.

For several years a children’s class was held at the school on Saturday mornings. Creativity was encouraged, often within the framework of a...

The title character has his truck in the circus caravan disintegrate and he wanders into an abandoned house where where he winds up drinking some...

This Traveltalk series short visits Seattle and other areas in the state of Washington. Seattle was a small city until the 1897 gold rush. During...