Movies 1940 Page 48

With the Government Remount Service unable to meet it's quota of horses, Marshal Fred Martin arrives to try and find the rustlers. Apparently just a...

The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his...

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...

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 hypochondriac misunderstands a telephone conversation, and believes he has only two days to live. It galvanises him into action and he finds all...

A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle...

The playboy owner of a sock manufacturing business bestows a bouquet of white lilies on each lady who catches his eye.One of them offers an...

An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.

Charley writes to girls all over the world in order to get foreign postage stamps for his collection--but winds up with a passel of girls who think...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

During the "Winter War" between Finland and the USSR, Galya's father goes to the front and she's left behind to take care of grandma and the house....

"Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and...

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

Olive rushes over to show Popeye the headline: Vaudeville is coming back. They agree to rehearse their old act. After a brief song-and-dance intro,...

Porky decides to go fishing the next day and tells his cat. The cat sleeps fitfully. The next day, while they are fishing, the cat gets into a battle...

In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water...

In a North of England training camp, lovestruck Corporal Kenyon (Harry Kemble) is framed and demoted in rank by a rival in love for the affections of...

A documentary about the Penlee Lifeboat and her crew, based around the Cornish fishing village of Mousehole.

Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.

Gran'pop Monkey opens a nursery, but the mischievous baby animals overwhelm him and his two assistants.

Short World War II documentary showing how the everyday work of British housewives aided the war effort.

Diagnostic Procedures in Tuberculosis documents how to perform particular tests for tuberculosis.

Part of the Canada Carries On series, this short film portrays the First Division of the Canadian Active Service Force in Aldershot, England. Using...

Combines airplane trips and fashion. Heavy on the fashion.

A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.

The collapse of the bridge was recorded on film by Barney Elliott, owner of a local camera shop. The film shows Leonard Coatsworth leaving the bridge...

Gran' Pop Monkey and The Three Monkeys decide to open a jungle beauty parlor, but a tough-guy gorilla comes in with his fat hippopotamus girlfriend...

This short documentary offers a close-up view of a hectic hockey game in which the Toronto Maple Leafs and the New York Rangers fight to break a tied...

Edgar Kennedy's hunting trip with his single buddies is kiboshed when his wife, Vivien, has made other arrangements for their vacation time. One of...

Victor Young and his Orchestra play "Tiger Rag".

This informative herring aid from WWII makes no bones about the need to make the most of every fish.

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...

Andy Panda gets a magic kit in the mail.

One fateful Friday 13th, a man rubs a gold ring and turns into a chimpanzee...so he has a look around Dublin and Chessington Zoos.

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...

The coming of the pioneer settlers in 1840, the making of their first homes in the wilderness, the gold rushes, the Maori wars, the stage coaches,...