Search results for "1940"
The Return of Frank James

The Return of Frank James

The Return of Frank James
IMDb: 6.6
92

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse’s killers, the back-shooting Fords.

Genre: Action, Drama, Western
The Invisible Woman

The Invisible Woman

The Invisible Woman
IMDb: 6
72

Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge…

Christmas in July

Christmas in July

Christmas in July
IMDb: 7.4
67

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest….

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Trouble with Husbands

The Trouble with Husbands

The Trouble with Husbands
IMDb: 6.5
11

Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands and…

His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday
IMDb: 7.9
92

Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she’s engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can’t let…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Philadelphia Story

The Philadelphia Story

The Philadelphia Story
IMDb: 7.9
113

When a rich woman’s ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Second Chorus

Second Chorus

Second Chorus
IMDb: 5.8
84

Danny O’Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row….

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath
IMDb: 8.1
129

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s…

Genre: Drama
When the Daltons Rode

When the Daltons Rode

When the Daltons Rode
IMDb: 6.5
81

Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked…

Genre: Western
The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk
IMDb: 7.7
127

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

Dark Command

Dark Command

Dark Command
IMDb: 6.8
94

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air…

The Door with Seven Locks

The Door with Seven Locks

The Door with Seven Locks
IMDb: 5.6
80

A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad doctor…

The Letter

The Letter

The Letter
IMDb: 7.6
95

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent
IMDb: 7.5
120

The European war was only beginning to erupt across national borders. Johnny Jones, an American crime reporter dispatched by his New York publisher to put a fresh spin on the…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller, War
The Mark of Zorro

The Mark of Zorro

The Mark of Zorro
IMDb: 7.6
94

Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays the useless fop,…

The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns
IMDb: 6.5
81

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

You’re Missing the Point

You’re Missing the Point

You’re Missing the Point
IMDb: 8.1
112

Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells…

Genre: Comedy
One Million B.C.

One Million B.C.

One Million B.C.
IMDb: 5.7
80

One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and…

Convoy

Convoy

Convoy
IMDb: 6.2
90

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

Genre: Drama, War
The Long Voyage Home

The Long Voyage Home

The Long Voyage Home
IMDb: 7
105

The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O’Neill one-act plays.

Genre: Drama, War
Rebecca

Rebecca

Rebecca
IMDb: 8.1
130

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several…

Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet

Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet

Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet
IMDb: 7.4
103

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.

Genre: Drama
Escape

Escape

Escape
IMDb: 7
98

An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Broadway Melody of 1940

Broadway Melody of 1940

Broadway Melody of 1940
IMDb: 7.3
102

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is…

Genre: Music, Romance
Contraband

Contraband

Contraband
IMDb: 6.9
92

When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent…

Dance, Girl, Dance

Dance, Girl, Dance

Dance, Girl, Dance
IMDb: 6.8
90

Judy O’Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice
IMDb: 7.4
118

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Westerner

The Westerner

The Westerner
IMDb: 7.4
100

Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to…

Go West

Go West

Go West
IMDb: 6.9
80

Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train…

Genre: Comedy, Western
The Ghost Breakers

The Ghost Breakers

The Ghost Breakers
IMDb: 7.2
85

After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located on Black Island near the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay…

Phantom of Chinatown

Phantom of Chinatown

Phantom of Chinatown
IMDb: 6
62

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 bottle on his lecture table, collapses…

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
IMDb: 7.2
63

A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic…

I Love You Again

I Love You Again

I Love You Again
IMDb: 7.5
99

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he’s really a con man…and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Chewin’ Bruin

The Chewin’ Bruin

The Chewin’ Bruin
IMDb: 6.4
7

A bear hunter tells Porky the tale of a hunt 30 years ago: a bear got a taste of his chewing tobacco and chased him down to get it; the…

Genre: Animation
The Timid Toreador

The Timid Toreador

The Timid Toreador
IMDb: 6.3
6

The bull makes short work of the matador, and then turns on Porky, a tamale vendor who wanders into the ring accidentally. But then he makes the mistake of actually…

Genre: Animation, Comedy
The Sour Puss

The Sour Puss

The Sour Puss
IMDb: 6.6
7

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 with…

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Slap Happy Pappy

Slap Happy Pappy

Slap Happy Pappy
IMDb: 6.4
7

Porky runs a farm; we see him plowing the fields. But it’s primarily a poultry farm; as the sign says, “For sale: Miracle eggs if it’s a good egg, it’s…

Genre: Animation
Porky’s Hired Hand

Porky’s Hired Hand

Porky’s Hired Hand
IMDb: 6.2
7

Porky hires on Gregory Grunt to watch over his chicken coop to stop the fox from raiding it. He falls asleep, and the fox fills his bag. But Grunt wakes…

Genre: Animation
You Ought to Be in Pictures

You Ought to Be in Pictures

You Ought to Be in Pictures
IMDb: 7.6
9

Daffy Duck convinces Porky Pig to quit the cartoon biz and try his luck in the features. Porky’s adventures begin when he tries to enter the studio.

Prehistoric Porky

Prehistoric Porky

Prehistoric Porky
IMDb: 6.9
7

Caveman Porky awakens and plays with his pet Rover, a massive dinosaur. After Rover’s playfulness causes a disruption to the prehistoric peace and quiet, Porky’s copy of “Expire” magazine arrives…

Genre: Animation