Search results for "1940"
Lucky Partners

Lucky Partners

Lucky Partners
IMDb: 6.4
99

Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mexican Spitfire

Mexican Spitfire

Mexican Spitfire
IMDb: 6.2
67

Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita’s fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who’s determined to break up…

Genre: Comedy
The Flying Squad

The Flying Squad

The Flying Squad
IMDb: 6
64

Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.

Genre: Crime
High School

High School

High School
IMDb: 6.5
74

A teenager who’s been raised and home-schooled at her father’s Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she’s sent to a San Antonio…

Genre: Comedy
Four Sons

Four Sons

Four Sons
IMDb: 6.2
89

Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.

Genre: Drama, History, War
Men Against the Sky

Men Against the Sky

Men Against the Sky
IMDb: 5.8
75

A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother’s ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company…

Genre: Drama, War
Lillian Russell

Lillian Russell

Lillian Russell
IMDb: 6.6
127

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Genre: Drama, Music
Star Dust

Star Dust

Star Dust
IMDb: 6.6
90

When the studios reject her because she”s too young, a young actress sets out to build a career on her own.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Irene

Irene

Irene
IMDb: 6.4
101

Upholsterer’s assistant Irene O’Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy’s,…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
IMDb: 6.4
71

A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman’s son and accused of a murder she didn’t commit.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Michael Shayne: Private Detective
IMDb: 6.7
77

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Too Many Girls

Too Many Girls

Too Many Girls
IMDb: 6
85

Mr Casey’s daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Vigil in the Night

Vigil in the Night

Vigil in the Night
IMDb: 6.7
102

A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister’s careless mistake.

Genre: Drama
Third Finger, Left Hand

Third Finger, Left Hand

Third Finger, Left Hand
IMDb: 6.9
96

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don’t go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the…

Genre: Comedy
The Man I Married

The Man I Married

The Man I Married
IMDb: 6.9
77

An American (Joan Bennett) vacations in Europe with her husband (Francis Lederer) and watches him turn into a Nazi.

Genre: Drama
Little Old New York

Little Old New York

Little Old New York
IMDb: 6.6
100

Inventor Robert Fulton (Richard Greene) receives support from a tavern owner (Alice Faye) and a shipyard worker (Fred MacMurray) to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.

The Case of the Frightened Lady

The Case of the Frightened Lady

The Case of the Frightened Lady
IMDb: 6.4
81

A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace. AKA “Scarf Murder Mystery.”

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

Dr. Kildare Goes Home
IMDb: 6.5
79

A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.

Genre: Drama
Castle on the Hudson

Castle on the Hudson

Castle on the Hudson
IMDb: 6.8
77

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Comrade X

Comrade X

Comrade X
IMDb: 6.5
90

An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip

Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip

Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip
IMDb: 7.2
8

Mickey is heading out on vacation from Burbank to Pomona, taking the train. The conductor, Pete, won’t let him on with Pluto, so he hides Pluto in his suitcase, and…

Little Nellie Kelly

Little Nellie Kelly

Little Nellie Kelly
IMDb: 6.4
98

Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.

Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Bad Man from Red Butte

Bad Man from Red Butte

Bad Man from Red Butte
IMDb: 5.2
58

A cowboy arrives in a town, and is immediately mistaken for his twin brother who is wanted for murder.

Genre: Western
Strange Cargo

Strange Cargo

Strange Cargo
IMDb: 6.9
113

Convicts escaping from Devil’s Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

Saturday’s Children

Saturday’s Children

Saturday’s Children
IMDb: 6.4
102

An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Blue Bird

The Blue Bird

The Blue Bird
IMDb: 6.4
83

An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of happiness, meeting friends and…

Crook’s Tour

Crook’s Tour

Crook’s Tour
IMDb: 5.7
80

Charters (Basil Radford) and Caldicott (Naunton Wayne) are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German…

Genre: Comedy, Mystery
My Favorite Wife

My Favorite Wife

My Favorite Wife
IMDb: 7.3
88

Seven years after a shipwreck in which she was presumed dead, Ellen Arden arrives home to find that her husband Nick has just remarried. The overjoyed Nick struggles to break…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
North West Mounted Police

North West Mounted Police

North West Mounted Police
IMDb: 6.5
126

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers (“Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?”, another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder….

Tarantella

Tarantella

Tarantella
IMDb: 5.7
4

Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials (visual and aural) are…

Genre: Animation
Pinocchio

Pinocchio

Pinocchio
IMDb: 7.4
88

Lonely toymaker Geppetto has his wishes answered when the Blue Fairy arrives to bring his wooden puppet Pinocchio to life. Before becoming a real boy, however, Pinocchio must prove he’s…

Genre: Animation, Family
The Mummy’s Hand

The Mummy’s Hand

The Mummy’s Hand
IMDb: 6.1
67

A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful…

Gaslight

Gaslight

Gaslight
IMDb: 7.4
84

Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow’s murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Remember the Night

Remember the Night

Remember the Night
IMDb: 7.6
94

When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love blossoms.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Thief of Bagdad

The Thief of Bagdad

The Thief of Bagdad
IMDb: 7.5
106

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well…

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