1940 Movies

A 1940 black and white film, production sponsored by the Colonial Empire Marketing Board. 'The East African colonies are introduced as representative...

Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but en...

In Tang Dynasty China, poetry exams for officials drove young men to study. Zhu Yingtai, a scholar's daughter, disguised herself as a man to attend sc...

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

The first blitzkrieg, Hitler's invasion of Poland, is traced in this original Nazi propaganda film from 1940.

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver so...

After inheriting a manor from a reclusive wealthy doctor, a newlywed couple is surprised to discover a tempestuous ape-man lurking in the cellar.

A millionaire appoints an administrator to control his daughter's overspending.

Swedish comedy from 1940. Carnival director Knut Lindberg has ended up in the hands of the usurer Director Aronsson and his shady practices trying to...

In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his iden...

An allegory of contemporary political attitudes presented in terms of differing approaches to the institutionalisation of sexuality: marriage. There...

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 c...

The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

Roop Kumari (Leela Desai) a famous court dancer is forbidden entry into a temple monastery run by a strict disciplinarian Priest. The cast listed here...

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

Escaping from the law once again, Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff ride to the ranch of Jeff's uncle only to find another family living their. They soon learn o...

Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, th...

Based on the life of Yue Fei, a Chinese military general who lived during the Southern Song dynasty and considered a national hero of China.