1940 Movies

A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.

Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.

Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps t...

Two mobs fight for control of the jukebox racket.

Peter Casey has been with the New York City police department for 25 years. He's totally surprised when he's asked to retire on his 25th anniversary w...

The Mesquiteers try to help their friend build a telegraph system, despite a local newspaper editor's attempts to sabotage the lines.

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

The stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first customers are so...

Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

Spanish Civil War, 1937. A platoon of Republican soldiers plans to stop the advance of the rebel troops by bombing a bridge on the road to Zaragoza, n...

Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...

Seduced and abandonned by her fiance, Maria Ferrante leaves home to avoid any scandal. She is trying to find work and place to stay but one misfortune...

A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an accidental death, and the only way she's able to get out...

A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.

Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney wh...

Based on a Russian folk tale, Vasilisa Prekrasnaya (Vasilisa the Beautiful) is about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. Two...

The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been murdered by person or persons unknown. The new sh...

Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.