Movies 1940 Page 42

Teacher František Kmoch is suspended because he plays at dances or composes at night. He forms a band in Kolín and his supporter Baron Hrubý helps...

In England, a boxer is sentenced to death for a murder he does not seem to have committed.... Anthony Gethryn, who has just resigned from the police...

Alice wins a free trip to Hollywood and dreams about her arrival.

In this animated short featuring the Bear Family, Papa Bear attempts to fix a leaky roof during a rain storm.

Wartime documentary by Dovzhenko and Solntseva.

Miquette is a young woman whose beauty and vivacity increase the clientele of her mother's tobacco shop. A Barrymoresque actor believes that Miquette...

The Legend of the Luftwaffe began in Poland, the first victim of Hitler's blitzkrieg. Combat cameramen filmed the aerial campaign, showing...

In this version of "The Courtship of Miles Standish", Elmer Fudd is messanger John Alden, sent to give Miles' love letter to Priscilla. While...

A young doctor, Dr. Deepak, uses faith cures and is expelled from his profession. After successfully curing a Prince, he becomes a Chief Medical...

A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.

A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.

It is based on the popular West End stage comedy by Terrence Rattigan. It all begins when Diana (Ellen Drew), the sister of a British boy studying in...

After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of...

Andy invests in a local theatrical production; when the actors flee with the money, Andy and his wife are forced to take their places and put on a...

A pro-Japanese propaganda film designed to inspire Korean fishermen to cooperate with the occupying regime.

"What a life for a couple of nudes!" Two dancers find a new way of doing their bit for the boys in this frothy wartime propaganda short. Lord...

How to make porridge using a haybox.

An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of...

The first of 4 full-length features produced by The March of Time, which was much more well known for the series of newsreels. The film used no...

Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival owner determined to do him in.

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...

During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car

Second attempt to create a feature film out of the 200,000-plus feet of film which Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein shot during 1931-32 in Mexico...

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

Promotional short produced for the opening of the Metro Cinema in Cairo in 1940.

Feature version of the American serial film, produced for export only, never exhibited in the USA, and believed to be a lost film.

Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some time behind bars as a result of her husband's...

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

A few musical numbers from Dave Apollon and His Orchestra.

Newlyweds Bret (Tom Brown) and Margie (Nan Grey) both aspire to show-biz careers: he wants to be a songwriter, while she is desirous of becoming a...

This Traveltalk look at New Orleans starts at the recently modernized port and harbor facilities, with ships unloading various cargo and loading...

Scrappy learns to play the piano.

Gabby has a letter to deliver to the king of Lilliput; when he arrives, the king is in the bath and Gabby tries on the royal robe. The king emerges...

With no dialogue, the film shows how a public library can be not only a place for quiet reading, but also dynamic information center. Features the...

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

This educational short examines the chemical makeup of film and the process in which it's developed.

Frankie Kelly, pageboy at the beauty salon ran by Madam Celeste, and his helper Jefferson find the routine broken when the body of one of the...