Movies 1940 Page 45

The first blitzkrieg, Hitler's invasion of Poland, is traced in this original Nazi propaganda film from 1940.

Gretl has been living in Vienna ever since her father, Klaghofer, a small general store owner, tried to marry her off against her will to the wealthy...

A film about military service dogs and their use in air signal, guard, medical and communications services.

Porky Pig provides play-by-play radio-broadcast commentary during a World Series baseball game.

U.S. Marshal Hopalong Cassidy is called when a town becomes overun with bad guys. Disguised as a member of a medicine show, Hoppy discovers that the...

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

Tobie is a hopeless daydreamer. He always has his head in the clouds, and this inevitably gets him into trouble with his employer. In the end, Tobie...

It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 spooks...

A young orphan girl begins to witness strange phenomena in the house where she lives with her godparents.

Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs. The favorite is...

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

Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).

An American star, visiting Paris, falls asleep in the Louvre while a guide comments on Watteau's "Voyage à Cythère". She dreams that the painting's...

This was a Columbia cartoon starring the human boy Scrappy in which the leading character is an assistant to a mad scientist character who creates a...

Little Nikita, the son of polar scientist Sergei Ivanov, runs away from home with the intention of reaching the Arctic, where he believes his father...

Bandleader Frances Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.

Olive sends Popeye a puppy, Eugene the Jeep, for his birthday, but despite Popeye's best efforts to make it sleep outside, it keeps finding its way...

A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.

Edgar, a broken-down race horse, becomes a fugitive from a glue factory and is ousted from his park bench and chased by the police. He upsets a...

The notable non-theatrical film distributor Thomas Brandon produced Tall Tales, a 1941 celebration of the American folk song featuring Josh White,...

Police work during World War II in Britain.

Peter Brough and Archie Andrews present a variety bill that includes Billy Cotton and his Band, Eve Becke, The Australian Air Aces, Bobbie 'Uke'...

The operation of a floating sea fort during WWII, and the lives of those who work on board.

Kenny Harrington, the star football player of Gilmore College, leads his team to many victories, raising hopes that Gilmore will play in the "Peach...

With Western Electric Vacuum Tubes in the starring roles, this film tells the fascinating story of tube development from the first crude bulbs of...

Helen Fielding, heir to the fortunes of the late millionaire Roger Fielding, Sr., has broken off her relationship with the unscrupulous Lew Covey to...

A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 February 1940.

A wagon train of settlers is approaching Prairieville and rancher Allen is out to stop them by having some of his men join the train and poison the...

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

A depiction of the life of a pampered dog belonging to a rich family. It gets egg-shampoos and all sorts of other annoying indignities heaped upon...

This Traveltalk series short looks at several landmarks and neighborhoods in New Orleans, Louisiana. Sights include the Cathedral of St. Louis,...

Laboratory experiments which later are applied to practical use are detailed here. Among the problems attempted and executed are the preparation of...

A country orphanage puts on a show with some musicians to save their 4H club from being shut down by greedy politicians.

A comic look at prehistoric life.

Captures the role played by the Royal Navy in the defence of Britain, and their role in convoy escort.

The title character has his truck in the circus caravan disintegrate and he wanders into an abandoned house where where he winds up drinking some...