1940 Movies

Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.

Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.

A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.

A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.

As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter...

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the ol...

The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, t...

The Durango Kid is a sort of Robin Hood of the West who helps the lovely Walters (who replaced Starrett's usual love-interest, Iris Meredith),the dau...

The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unatte...

A story about a young boy Timur and his team who are living in a small Moscow suburb during the years before WWII.

Advertising short for Chevrolet combining live action and animation. The film relates the story of Gilbert Willoughby, who, exasperated by his stubbor...

In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.

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

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

Japanese propaganda film

Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between the townspeople and Poe Daggett and his gang. He...

Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of pro...

A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.

Cowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks.