1940 Movies

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 th...

This was a Columbia cartoon starring the human boy Scrappy in which the leading character is an assistant to a mad scientist character who creates a r...

Donald Barry, not yet Donald "Red" Barry, heads the cast of the Republic western Ghost Valley Raiders. A federal marshal, Barry is assigned to put an...

Melodrama featuring a thikadar (forest contractor),a somewhat remote figure like the landscape in which he operates. The villain is the plantation-ow...

A young woman criticized by her family for her dissipated life embarks on a new path.

A young actress in love ensnares the director she admires by successfully playing the role of his ideal woman—the homemaker.

In February-March 1940, Suomi-Filmi produced four Military Jokes, sleazy propaganda entertainment, by "those great grins" Tatu Pekkarinen (1892-1951)...

Matti Jurva and other performers perform a joke about the Terijoki government.

A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony.

Over the course of a single fateful night at a struggling roadside motel, lunch counter, and tourist court located in the Mojave Desert, a diverse gro...

This pulse-pounding documentary from the filmmaker Herbert Kline traces the rise of Hitler up to the very brink of WWII. The commentary, written by J...

A highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena Nemcova. It's a classical, compulsory reading in Czech schools, ab...

The misadventures and mishaps of a tailor.

Edmund Lowe plays an insurance investigator who interrupts his honeymoon to look into the case of a murder, which could also be a suicide, in which ca...

Stony Brooke, Rusty Joslin and Rico, known as The Three Mesquiteers, return to Oklahoma at the close of the Spanish-American War, and are concerned th...

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...