1940 Movies

In this Broadway Brevities short, a stunt double is hit on the head and imagines himself in a series of movie scenes with doubles for various stars.

A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.

Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.

Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing...

Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town.

A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.

A expressive documentary and one of the earliest works of José Luis Sáenz de Heredia.

At a family gathering, an elderly man reflects on the follies of his youth during his freshman year at college.

A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.

Allied propaganda in the form of cartoons and newsreels shows the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

In a palace in Nice, a modest valet is confused with his master, a viscount chased by a man-eater.

Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky tha...

An international crook hunted by the police comes to Paris to save his daughter from the clutches of a blackmailer friend of a cabaret singer with ecc...

Accidental meeting between a pop-music superstar and a politician's daughter turns into a big romance... but class distinctions, and scandal in the fa...

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.

Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.

When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But a...

The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint" the...

A cow and her calf are bedding down for the night. The calf is frightened by a shadow, until it's revealed to be a jackrabbit. He follows the rabbit d...