Movies 1940 Page 49

Jane Frazee made her starring film debut in the Republic B-plus musical Melody and Moonlight. The plot is motivated by the show-biz aspirations of...

A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, with Kataoka Chiezo and...

Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders.

Millionaire Ambrosius Brown has been robbed in Chicago for the fifth time and is reported missing again shortly after being rescued. In reality,...

"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...

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...

Nisse Ekberg is in San Francisco but wants to get back to Sweden. Not being a completely honest guy, he gets mixed up with another person and assumes...

In this entertaining short, famous literary figures step out of the pages of books after dark.

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

An old woman remembers when her daughter fell in love with a young neighbor, and she and her husband did everything to break that relationship.

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

Part of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series, this short film focuses on crimes revolving around pension scams.

Flock to your local keep fit class - there's a war on and Britain needs its citizens in tip-top shape.

Swedish comedy from 1940. Kurre Karlsson, a simple man of the people, will be called up for military training given by an anti-aircraft units at sea....

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

Produced in both English and Spanish, the film focuses on the Lopez family, now motherless because of tuberculosis. When Consuelo, the daughter of...

Two six-graders are trying to find the Stalin's pipe and return it to the owner.

Beena, a young village girl and Nirmal love each other. When Suresh decides to create rift between them, things begin to challenge both Beena and...

Pluto is towing Donald and his little motorboat. He gets distracted by a frog, and the boat runs away from him. While Pluto is struggling with the...

This short film chronicles the importance of cotton to the economy and culture of America's Old South.

In this film collaboration between the famous Ealing Film Studios and the Ministry of Food, we have a ‘ringside seat’ at a meeting of the...

Comedy set in Switzerland. An estranged honeymooner, mistaken for an ice- hockey champion, helps England to win an international ice hockey match.

Scrappy is deep-sea fishing when a bottle floats by his boat. In this corked bottle is a secret treasure map. There's a chest of gold on the ocean...

Lowell Thomas narrates a look at progress in American history.

A mother dinosaur hatches three little cuties, but the fourth is "ugly." He gets an inferiority complex because his brothers won't play with him, and...

Andy Panda gets a magic kit in the mail.

Krazy, voiced as a burlesque comic, is called in by a housewife who looks like Goofy in drag, to get rid of a mouse and the usual comic incidents...

This is a lavish, reverential dramatization of the first Easter based on the passage in Luke 24: 1-35. Included is the appearance of the risen Lord...

George Pal's third and final cel-animated commercial story film made for Lever Brothers product Rinso Soap. It's wash day, Grandmother Bear is coming...

This absurdly pro-business film tells the story of a young man who learns a lesson about capitalism and how his town is dependent upon its factories...

This one-reel short is comprised of footage depicting the intelligence of birds and animals when their mental processes, through training, are...

Edgar Kennedy is over-joyed when told he has won a $5,000 prize in a "How To Be Happy Though Married" contest. A reporter interviews Edgar and his...

Pianists Charlie Kunz and Mark Hambourg tickle the ivories for our entertainment in this jolly musical short.

A documentary about the Penlee Lifeboat and her crew, based around the Cornish fishing village of Mousehole.

For several years a children’s class was held at the school on Saturday mornings. Creativity was encouraged, often within the framework of a...

A film showing how apples may be made an attractive part of the menu for many different occasions. Four recipes--apple salad, apple upside-down cake,...

A short film showing how the Teleprinter works.

All the ranchers are losing cattle but are unable to find the rustlers. Posing as a prospector, Agent Ken Blair arrives and teams up with young Buzzy...

This Traveltalk series short begins in the Wenatchee River valley, where apples are the chief commercial crop. In Spokane, we see the Sunken Gardens...