Movies 1940 Page 50

The employee of a ranch and the boss's daughter have an affair and he is accused of stealing cattle.

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed...

The stooges are singing comedic waiters, enlisted by two doctors to try and cheer up a depressed little girl, whose banker-father has gone missing...

It's the story of a boy who finds enlightenment by experiencing religious hipocrisy and dogmatism. Dnyaneshwar liberated the "divine knowledge"...

A wacky travelogue takes us to the forests of Yosemite, the rocks of Brice Canyon, the frozen wastes of Alaska, the desert wastes of New Mexico, the...

A young pilot, annoyed at not being selected to take part in a raid on an enemy target, moans to his fiancée, who in turn chatters to a friend at a...

A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.

A little dog must learn to become friends with a big dog.

A comic look at prehistoric life. Inept Stone Age characters play baseball.

Porky hires on Gregory Grunt to watch over his chicken coop to stop the fox from raiding it. He falls asleep, and the fox fills his bag. But Grunt...

An experimental film in which both sound and visuals were created entirely by Norman McLaren drawing directly upon the film with ordinary pen and...

The film takes place in Russia during the World War I. Three Hungarian POWs are on the run from their Russian captives. One of them gets shot down....

A wealthy woman pressures her son-in-law to give her a grandson until her daughter finally gets pregnant.

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

Movie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden head) because of his supposed stubbornness....

Young civil servant Marta Urbanová wins a two-week stay at a luxury hotel. While looking for a typing room, she accidentally finds herself in the...

A government-sponsored short documentary commissioned by the Ministry of Information during WWII.

This informative herring aid from WWII makes no bones about the need to make the most of every fish.

A twist of the classic 18th century English nursery rhyme where a Bullfrog Landlord threatens to evict a Washerwoman Mouse and her children when...

This Lone Ranger spoof pits the Lonesome Stranger and his horse Sliver against a gang of Mexican banditos known as the Killer Diller Boys.

River flowing through Prague, Czechoslovakia. Shots of the city. Bridges, buildings, street scenes, religious buildings, cars driving the streets. ...

First film by the Whitney brothers.

Edgar starts a trailer vacation with his wife Vivien and father-in-law, but doesn't get far before they are overtaken by two men from the finance...

Dr. Paul Hoefler, a prominent explorer, organizes an exhibition to track down a secret cannibalistic society in Africa known as the "Leopard Men."

A timid pig tries to go swimming at the beach, but somehow he keeps getting tangled up with Sourpuss's fishing line.

A day in the life of a 'typical' English family. Intended for African distribution.

Photographer Rudy Burckhardt shows us the ebb and flow of people rushing about Manhattan. Equally exhilarating in his novel approach to snap images...

A comic look at prehistoric life.

Harry's grandfather's spirit inhabits his old policeman's uniform, which is being used in an amateur play.

A comic look at prehistoric life.

Lightships (ships serving the functions of a lighthouse) have for centuries been treated as neutral during wartime, but a British lightship during...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

Otto Messmer [Felix The Cat] animation that was originally shown as animated lights in Times Square.

A walrus steals the brandy from a Saint Bernard puppy.

Cosmopolitan mixture of variety acts are presented in an international café: Spanish dance, Hawaiian song, Italian street singer, Cossack...

A timid little puppy suffers from an inferiority complex. But, once he gets away from home however, he has a grand time putting on the tough-dog air...