Movies 1940 Page 41

Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant things can affect people. The first is how the number...

The murder of an 8-year-old boy by a young soldier in Tijuana, Mexico, leads to riots on the streets. Based on a true story.

Rudi, who’s been quite the ladies’ man, finally wants to settle down and marry Hilde. So as to not get into a touchy situation with all his many...

In a poor neighborhood in Mexico City, two gangs of kids fight for control of the center where they work as "boleros", musicians or announcers....

This one-reel film was produced during the middle of the Second World War. It purports to offer a portrait of the British people, in broad and in...

A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.

Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy.

During a French construction project in the Sudan, a military doctor fights against leprosy and the natives seek protection against witch doctors.

Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.

British Air Ministry short film highlighting the need for the public to stay clear of aircraft wreckage during World War II.

Enriqueto, the proud owner of a splendid mustache, feels his heart divided between the kindly Manolita and the feckless Lilí. (A redubbed version of...

Test footage for an uncompleted Ray Harryhausen project showcasing dinosaur animation. A glimpse of daily life during the Age of Dinosaurs is...

Student Gábor and cigarette-smoking student Mujkó sneak into the Buda rose garden of baba Gül and fall in love with Leila, the daughter of baba...

Documentary by Andrew Buchanan illustrating a time when faith lay at the heart of the British Experience.

Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is...

Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary...

A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The Sanzo Ikkou continues its westward journey, on a...

In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she...

The most aristocratic woman of the town is seduced by a Turkish man.

Young Italian journalist Stefano Andriani travels to Albania, where he falls in love with Eliana, a local girl, and she with him. One day, Andriani...

Reporter vs. German spies and their new metal.

A travelogue celebrating the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition and highlighting its exhibition of classical paintings and stunning lighting effects.

To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.

A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.

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...

Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town.

This low-budget western stars Tim McCoy as federal agent Tim Hammond, who follows a gang of big-city gangsters to the Wide Open Spaces. Don't be...

A family of mice who live inside of a wall are trying to sleep, but Mom mouse is being kept awake by a dog snoring in the room outside of their hole....

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

"One Tenth of Our Nation" is a 1940 documentary directed by Felix Greene that documents the historical and contemporary conditions of African...

In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the...

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 "Pete Smith Specialty". Three sea lions gatecrash the kitchen of a beach house, steal some goodies, then go on to cause chaos at the party.

A comic look at prehistoric life.

A series of typical Avery spot gags set around wild animals. A dainty deer drinks very loudly and rudely from a lake. A pack rat swaps an egg and an...

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 short-subject golf film at the fourth annual Bing Crosby Pro-Am at Rancho Santa Fe.

Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.

Scrappy and his mongrel try to attend a for purebreds only dog show- but are thwarted by a security guard.

The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son...