Movies 1940 Page 49

A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two...

A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.

Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.

This short WWII propaganda documentary drives home the point that steel and committed steel workers can make the difference between winning and...

Helen Fielding, heir to the fortunes of the late millionaire Roger Fielding, Sr., has broken off her relationship with the unscrupulous Lew Covey to...

Porky and Daffy run a diner. The eggs come from chickens kept on the premises. A customer orders a hamburger, and Daffy discovers the mice have...

The film takes place in Russia during the World War I. Three Hungarian POWs are on the run from their Russian captives. One of them gets shot down....

This one-reel short is comprised of footage depicting the intelligence of birds and animals when their mental processes, through training, are...

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

Old fashioned teachers are taught swing dancing by a student.

A young newspaper reporter finds himself framed for murder.

A determined bird goes out early to hunt for a worm and the bird gets into trouble.

This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey's oft-used plot of "employing bad guys as good guys to...

The Fargo Kid is mistaken for a killer and is hired to kill another man...

A marshal is sent to clean up a mining town being terrorized by an organized gang that is killing miners and stealing their claims.

It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will...

A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled on her father's Texan ranch must adjust to her new surroundings with other students when she's sent to...

A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.

Dad Rudd wants the size of a local dam increased for the benefit of local farmers but faces opposition from a wealthy grazier, Henry Webster. When...

Wild Bill Saunders discovers that his uncle Mort has been murdered by an unscrupulous ranch foreman, Matt Brawley. But before he can right Brawley's...

Copperhead, fighting on the back of a truck, is knocked off the vehicle. Speed, pursuing in a car, runs him down.

Comedy set in Switzerland. An estranged honeymooner, mistaken for an ice- hockey champion, helps England to win an international ice hockey match.

Harry's grandfather's spirit inhabits his old policeman's uniform, which is being used in an amateur play.

A Santa Fe Railroad educational film on the steam locomotive in their role in industry and passenger travel.

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 travelogue celebrating the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition and highlighting its exhibition of classical paintings and stunning lighting effects.

An inexperienced little ghost tries out for a house-haunting job, but winds up getting terrorized by the fat ghost interviewing him for the position.

Oversize garden pests overcome the springtime urge to garden. The story opens in the spring. A caveman starts working in his garden, where a...

Directed by Jirí Weiss

Short government film on the dangers of gossip in wartime.

This Traveltalk series short begins in the Wenatchee River valley, where apples are the chief commercial crop. In Spokane, we see the Sunken Gardens...

Fishing and agriculture, transport, the archaeology and scenery of the Shetland Isles.

A travel film showing the magnificent scenery of the Rocky Mountains as seen from the highway linking Banff and Jasper National Parks.

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

How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.

A comic look at prehistoric life.

In 1932, University of Georgia agriculture professor Paul W. Chapman wrote a novel about the Future Farmers of America (FFA), The Green Hand, in...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

Doctor Satan Strikes: Copperhead had already left the box when the delivery truck parked, substituting sacks of ore to maintain the box's weight.

Police work during World War II in Britain.