1940 Movies

An ascent of 'The Tooth' via the South-east Face. The film was made by Burge Bickford and Lyman Boyer. It features Jim Crooks leading Fred Beckey on a...

The Lorraine Page orchestra plays the title song, and Martha Mears and Bills Roberts sing it in this soundie.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 April 1940.

A wagon train of settlers is approaching Prairieville and rancher Allen is out to stop them by having some of his men join the train and poison the ho...

A flea sets up its new home in the fur of a sleeping dog.

P. U. Chinnappa, plays in dual role, as twin brothers. One is a tyrant king and the other is a brave commoner, separated at birth. Loosely based on Al...

River flowing through Prague, Czechoslovakia. Shots of the city. Bridges, buildings, street scenes, religious buildings, cars driving the streets....

When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hanna. But the colonel's relatives try everything to h...

Edgar starts a trailer vacation with his wife Vivien and father-in-law, but doesn't get far before they are overtaken by two men from the finance comp...

Nick Lucas sings "In a Little Spanish Town". This was shot on one of the sets from My Little Chickadee (1940).

The film features B-movie actresses boarding a TWA airlines flight to Albuquerque, New Mexico, Phoenix, Arizona and Boulder City, Nevada. The women do...

The operation of a floating sea fort during WWII, and the lives of those who work on board.

Marine Sergeant Bob Lansing has just completed a tour of duty in the Pacific and is off to study at the Officer's Academy in Annapolis if he passes th...

Tomorrow is Theirs examines provisions for secondary school education during the war, arguing for the importance of maintaining excellent, thorough sc...

A Traveltalk look at the exteriors of Washington, D.C.'s famous buildings and monuments.

Biographical documentary about Maxim Gorky.

A (lost?) Stone Age Cartoon