Movies 1940 Page 43

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

Randall and his sidekick Manny (Frank Yaconelli) played horse traders battling a greedy and unscrupulous rival (Tom London). When some of his stock...

Andy has the mistaken impression that his wife is pregnant.

Donald is washing windows on a high-rise; Pluto is his assistant, hauling the rope for the platform and refilling buckets but mostly sleeping. And...

A young woman pretends to be the daughter of a financier and enters a rich girls' college, where she commits a thousand mischiefs.

A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.

A woodpecker (Woody) repeatedly pecks the roof of Andy Panda's and his father's home. Daddy sets out to stop it.

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

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.

A doctor explains to his children the dangers of tuberculosis, what it is and how to prevent against contracting it.

The Bontemps family, like all the inhabitants of the village of Coussy la Chapelle, are passionate about radio. Coco, the fiancé of Jacqueline...

Charles Chauvel's 1940 cinematic tribute to the mounted troops of the Australian Light Horse regiments is a rousing call to arms, giving life to the...

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...

Follows two men who are raised as brothers and compete for the love of the same woman.

Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his...

53rd episode of RKO's "Mr. Average Man" Series starring Edgar Kennedy.

With the Government Remount Service unable to meet it's quota of horses, Marshal Fred Martin arrives to try and find the rustlers. Apparently just a...

Bob Evans' Arabian stallion is stolen and Bob, with his friend Shag Williams starts on the trail that takes them to the horse ranch owned by Kimball...

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.

Pluto is tied up in the backyard and has been ordered by the maid to stay outside while she prepares a roast. Of course, once Pluto smells the scent...

Steve Beaumont, an operative for the Cattleman's Protective Association, is assigned the difficult task of breaking up a murderous gang of rustlers...

During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to...

A 1940 black and white film, production sponsored by the Colonial Empire Marketing Board. 'The East African colonies are introduced as...

A ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure.

A comic look at prehistoric life.

Presentation of music by Matty Malneck and his Orchestra

A wealthy French widow is poisoned in her home, Inspector Hanaud investigates..

A surreal 1940 film by an amateur cineaste Cynthia Childs about a woman's infidelitous evening out on the town. Added score composed and performed by...

A newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's father.

Animation on The Sorcerer's Apprentice began on January 21, 1938, when James Algar, the director of the segment, assigned animator Preston Blair to...

Two convicts escape prison and get a job in a bakery. Their attempts to go straight are endangered by a third escaped convict.

A dog thinks he is being chased by small pink elephants, and goes to the hospital. While Porky is working on medication, the pink elephants find him...

Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder.

A father tries to take picture of his easily distracted daughter, which is made more difficult by an angry group of dogs.

Star-crossed lovers, Robert and Ariana, are caught up in the New Zealand wars of the 1860s. Ariana is claimed by the Maniapoto people as one of...

Rupert is the smallest pig of the litter, and all the farm animals bully him and won't give him a spot at the feeding trough. Sulking in the woods,...

With great optimism Britain re-constructed after World War I but ignored the threat from the Gathering Storm of Nazi aggression.