1940 Movies

Mother Hen's kids are aspiring singers and actresses, but Chester wants to become a G-Man. This fantasy of his lands him into trouble.

Herzensfreud-Herzensleid (literally translates to "Heartfelt Joy - Heartbreak"),the 1940 Hubert Marischka German family relationship romantic comedy...

Britain's check to the German drive for world domination. The Ministry of Information requested that the film should be withdrawn as it was considered...

In 1868, while the Cuban War of Independence develops, Gaston de Montero, a noble Spanish knight, rescues a young girl named Siboney and he helps her...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 April 1940.

A propaganda film made a few weeks before the end of the Winter War, a war joke about the Home Guard, made by "those great grimaces" Tatu Pekkarinen a...

This Traveltalk series short visits Seattle and other areas in the state of Washington. Seattle was a small city until the 1897 gold rush. During Worl...

Short film in support of the Red Cross showing civilian volunteers'work, radio and movie personalities at a fund-raising gala and encouraging recruitm...

This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?

Gran' Pop Monkey and The Three Monkeys decide to open a jungle beauty parlor, but a tough-guy gorilla comes in with his fat hippopotamus girlfriend an...

A monkey in a jungle orchestra only has one note to play, but this seemingly easy task will be more complicated than it seems.

Ching Kwok-yuen, a bird hunter, sees a female ghost harming people and shoots her to scare her away. The female ghost harbors a grudge and waits for a...

Cosmopolitan mixture of variety acts are presented in an international café: Spanish dance, Hawaiian song, Italian street singer, Cossack sword-dancer...

The gang is going fishing and wants to get an early start, but they end up causing all sorts of problems for the passengers of a city bus.

A Kajirô Yamamoto directed comedy starring Roppa Furukawa.

Nanda, a money lender's son, falls for farmer's daughter Rupa. His father arranges his marriage to Radha for a dowry. Rupa sacrifices her love and ble...

In his final Western for Poverty Row's Metropolitan Pictures, Bob Steele played Bob Hall, a lawman looking into a series of cattle rustlings. The lead...

Lisa Larsson, dancer at a theater, witnesses a traffic accident and banker Brenner's private driver asks her to be a witness. When her friends see her...