1940 Year Filmography & POSTER/DVD

1940 Year's Filmography

1. The Great Dictator (1940)

IMDB Rating: 8.5 ( 154328 Votes ) ;

Twenty years after the end of WWI in which the nation of Tomainia was on the losing side, Adenoid Hynkel has risen to power as the ruthless dictator o... More Detail »»

2. Pinocchio (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.5 ( 100890 Votes ) ; BoxOffice: $84300000 USD

Inventor Gepetto creates a wooden marionette called Pinocchio. His wish that Pinocchio be a real boy is unexpectedly granted by a fairy. The fairy ass... More Detail »»

3. Rebecca (1940)

IMDB Rating: 8.2 ( 95997 Votes ) ;

A shy ladies' companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. She and Max fall in love, marry and retur... More Detail »»

4. Fantasia (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.8 ( 76062 Votes ) ; BoxOffice: $76400000 USD

Disney animators set pictures to Western classical music as Leopold Stokowski conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" feature... More Detail »»

5. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

IMDB Rating: 8.1 ( 69374 Votes ) ;

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked off their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his uncle's... More Detail »»

6. The Philadelphia Story (1940)

IMDB Rating: 8 ( 53284 Votes ) ;

Philadelphia socialites Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven married impulsively, with their marriage and subsequent divorce being equally passionate. The... More Detail »»

7. His Girl Friday (1940)

IMDB Rating: 8 ( 44055 Votes ) ;

Having been away for four months, Hildy Johnson walks into the offices of the New York City based The Morning Post, where she is a star reporter, to t... More Detail »»

8. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

IMDB Rating: 8.1 ( 21609 Votes ) ;

In Budapest, Hungary, the Matuschek and Company store is owned by Mr. Hugo Matuschek and the bachelor Alfred Kralik is his best and most experienced s... More Detail »»

9. Foreign Correspondent (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.6 ( 14761 Votes ) ;

Johnny Jones is an action reporter on a New York newspaper. The editor appoints him European correspondent because he is fed up with the dry, reports ... More Detail »»

10. The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.6 ( 9756 Votes ) ;

In Bagdad, the young and naive Sultan Ahmad is curious about the behavior of his people. The Grand Vizier Jaffar convinces Ahmad to walk through the c... More Detail »»

11. The Letter (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.7 ( 9197 Votes ) ;

The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense. Her poise, graciousness and stoicism impress nearl... More Detail »»

12. The Mark of Zorro (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.6 ( 7892 Votes ) ;

Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays t... More Detail »»

13. The Sea Hawk (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.8 ( 7572 Votes ) ;

Geoffrey Thorpe is an adventurous and dashing pirate, who feels that he should pirate the Spanish ships for the good of England. In one such battle, h... More Detail »»

14. My Favorite Wife (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ( 7504 Votes ) ;

Ellen Arden arrives 7 years after being given up for dead in a shipwreck, to find her husband Nick just remarried to Bianca. The overjoyed Nick awkwar... More Detail »»

15. Waterloo Bridge (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.8 ( 7397 Votes ) ;

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ... More Detail »»

16. Pride and Prejudice (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ( 6398 Votes ) ;

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentle... More Detail »»

17. They Drive by Night (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.3 ( 5745 Votes ) ;

Brothers Paul and Joe Fabrini run a trucking business in California mainly shipping fruit from farms to the markets in Los Angeles. They struggle to m... More Detail »»

18. The Bank Dick (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.3 ( 5618 Votes ) ;

Egbert Sousé leads an ordinary life but is about to have an extraordinary day. Henpecked at home home by his demanding wife Agatha and more or less ig... More Detail »»

19. Go West (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 4343 Votes ) ;

Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and R... More Detail »»

20. The Westerner (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.5 ( 3940 Votes ) ;

Cole Harden just doesn't look like a horse thief, Jane-Ellen Matthews tells Judge Roy Bean as she steps up to the bar. Cole says he can't take it with... More Detail »»

21. The Mortal Storm (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.9 ( 3474 Votes ) ;

Interesting to note that the film was made in 1940, 1 year before America's entry into the European war against Hitler. The movie depicts Germany in 1... More Detail »»

22. All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.6 ( 3439 Votes ) ;

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philip... More Detail »»

23. Night Train to Munich (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.3 ( 3384 Votes ) ;

When the Germans march into Prague, armour-plating inventor Dr Bomasch flees to England. His daughter Anna escapes from arrest to join him, but the Ge... More Detail »»

24. Remember the Night (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.7 ( 3263 Votes ) ;

Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He postpones the trial because i... More Detail »»

25. Road to Singapore (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 3081 Votes ) ;

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope star in the first of the 'Road to' movies as two playboys trying to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet D... More Detail »»

26. The Long Voyage Home (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 3075 Votes ) ;

Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. The men smuggle drink and women ab... More Detail »»

27. Gaslight (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ( 2824 Votes ) ;

Twenty years ago, old Mrs. Barlow was killed in her home at 12, Pimlico Square for her priceless rubies. The murderer searched the whole house without... More Detail »»

28. A Chump at Oxford (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ( 2742 Votes ) ;

With Stan in drag, the boys get jobs as a butler and maid for a dinner party at the Vandevere's. After that ends in disaster, they're reduced to sweep... More Detail »»

29. 'Northwest Passage' (Book I -- Rogers' Rangers) (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 2694 Votes ) ;

Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force e... More Detail »»

30. Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 2672 Votes ) ;

Rising reporter Michael Ward is a key witness in the murder trial of young Joe Briggs, who is convicted on circumstantial evidence while swearing inno... More Detail »»

31. The Great McGinty (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.5 ( 2620 Votes ) ;

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this br... More Detail »»

32. Christmas in July (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.6 ( 2537 Votes ) ;

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford Ho... More Detail »»

33. Kitty Foyle (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 2505 Votes ) ;

A white collar worker from a blue collar family, Kitty Foyle has spent her so far short adult life in her hometown of Philadelphia or New York City. S... More Detail »»

34. Boom Town (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 2481 Votes ) ;

Buddies Big John McMasters and Square John Sand are fast-talking, wisecracking wildcatters who manage to con enough equipment and capital to develop t... More Detail »»

35. The Ghost Breakers (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.3 ( 2436 Votes ) ;

Mary Carter inherits her family's ancestral home, located on a small island off Cuba, and, despite warnings and death threats, decides to take possess... More Detail »»

36. I Love You Again (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.5 ( 2333 Votes ) ;

While alone on a cruise, the upstanding - and mean - teetotaler, Larry Wilson, receives a blow on the head, causing him to revert to his old, forgotte... More Detail »»

37. The Return of Frank James (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 2250 Votes ) ;

Frank James, the brother of Jesse James, has been laying low, living as a farmer and taking care of Clem, the son of one of the members of the James g... More Detail »»

38. My Little Chickadee (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 2156 Votes ) ;

Rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, Flower Belle Lee is run out of Little Bend. On the train she meets con man Cuthbert J. ... More Detail »»

39. Santa Fe Trail (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 2052 Votes ) ;

The story of Jeb Stuart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer and battles...... More Detail »»

40. Saps at Sea (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.2 ( 1899 Votes ) ;

After working in the noisy horn factory, just the sound of one drives Oliver into a violent fit. Dr. Finlayson prescribes a long, restful sea voyage, ... More Detail »»

41. Brother Orchid (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 1895 Votes ) ;

Gang boss Little John Sarto returns from Europe where he was looking for "class" to find the new gang leader Jack Burns unwilling to relinquish his co... More Detail »»

42. The Mummy's Hand (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 1866 Votes ) ;

An ancient mummy is revived to destroy those that would invade the 3,000 year old tomb of an Egyptian princess.... More Detail »»

43. Dark Command (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 1803 Votes ) ;

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local ba... More Detail »»

44. Our Town (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 1801 Votes ) ;

Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get de... More Detail »»

45. The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 1732 Votes ) ;

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.... More Detail »»

46. City for Conquest (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.3 ( 1718 Votes ) ;

Cagney is Danny Kenny, a truck driver who enters "the fight game" and Sheridan plays his girlfriend, Peggy. Danny realizes success in the ring and use... More Detail »»

47. The Devil Bat (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.4 ( 1711 Votes ) ;

A mad scientist develops an aftershave lotion that causes his gigantic bats to kill anyone who wears it.... More Detail »»

48. Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ( 1672 Votes ) ;

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brent as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who... More Detail »»

49. Virginia City (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 1655 Votes ) ;

During the American Civil War, Captain Kerry Bradford escapes from a notorious confederate prison. He and two of his men are sent to Virginia City whe... More Detail »»

50. Strange Cargo (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 1650 Votes ) ;

Verne wants nothing more than to escape from a penal colony located off the northern coast of South America. He tries to involve Julie, a saloon girl,... More Detail »»

51. The Fighting 69th (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 1458 Votes ) ;

"The Fighting 69th" is a First World War regiment of mostly New York-Irish soldiers. Amongst a cocky crew, perhaps the cockiest is Jerry Plunkett, a s... More Detail »»

52. Knute Rockne All American (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 1450 Votes ) ;

Lars Rockne and his family, including his four year old son Knute, emigrate to Chicago in 1892 from their native Norway. By his mid-twenties Knute sav... More Detail »»

53. Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ( 1392 Votes ) ;

Biopic of Abe Lincoln, 16th President of he United States, from his early days in backwoods Kentucky to his election as President. After a time runnin... More Detail »»

54. Dr. Cyclops (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 1386 Votes ) ;

A mad scientist working in the South American jungle miniaturizes his colleagues when he feels his megalomania is threatened.... More Detail »»

55. One Night in the Tropics (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 1319 Votes ) ;

Jim "Lucky" Moore (Allan Jones), an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve (Robert Cummings): a 'love insurance policy... More Detail »»

56. Edison, the Man (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 1260 Votes ) ;

Hoored at a banquet for his sixty year career as an inventor, scientist, and businessman, 89 year old Thomas Alva Edison reflects back on his long car... More Detail »»

57. Jud Süß (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.2 ( 1198 Votes ) ;

In this notorious Nazi propaganda historical costume melodrama, a conniving, ambitious Jewish businessman...... More Detail »»

58. Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.6 ( 1193 Votes ) ;

A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the d... More Detail »»

59. Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.5 ( 1163 Votes ) ;

Dr. Paul Ehrlich was the German physician who developed the first synthetic antimicrobial drug, 606 or Salvarsan. The film describes how Ehrlich first... More Detail »»

60. The Ape (1940)

IMDB Rating: 4.5 ( 1153 Votes ) ;

Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal...... More Detail »»

61. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 1091 Votes ) ;

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap...... More Detail »»

62. Black Friday (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 1077 Votes ) ;

Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous sp... More Detail »»

63. Strike Up the Band (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 1061 Votes ) ;

Jimmy Connors and his girl-friend want to take part in Paul Whiteman's highschool's band contest, but they cannot afford the fare. But per chance the ... More Detail »»

64. The Invisible Woman (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 1053 Votes ) ;

An attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine.... More Detail »»

65. Charlie Chan in Panama (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.7 ( 1013 Votes ) ;

Charlie impersonates a shop owner to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Paci... More Detail »»

66. Torrid Zone (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 992 Votes ) ;

Banana Company executive Steve Case on a Caribean plantation group tries to convince his former co-worker Nick Butler to take over the plantation No 7... More Detail »»

67. Primrose Path (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 968 Votes ) ;

Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. ... More Detail »»

68. North West Mounted Police (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 961 Votes ) ;

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels...... More Detail »»

69. Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.7 ( 953 Votes ) ;

On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a ... More Detail »»

70. Murder Over New York (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.5 ( 938 Votes ) ;

Coincidence like ancient egg, leave unpleasant odour. Canary unlike faithful dog, do not die from sympathy. Number 2 son very promising detective, pro... More Detail »»

71. Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 921 Votes ) ;

A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmos... More Detail »»

72. Seven Sinners (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 921 Votes ) ;

Bijou, a saloon singer with a reputation for inciting brouhahas, is one of several deportees from a south Pacific island to arrive at another U.S. pro... More Detail »»

73. The Blue Bird (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 896 Votes ) ;

Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, a woodchopper's children, are led by the Fairy Berylune on a magical trip through the past, present, and future to locat... More Detail »»

74. Second Chorus (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.9 ( 866 Votes ) ;

When perennial college students Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are forced to make it on their own, the competitive pair get jobs with Artie Shaw's band... More Detail »»

75. Arizona (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 847 Votes ) ;

Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But P... More Detail »»

76. Young Tom Edison (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 846 Votes ) ;

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastr... More Detail »»

77. Contraband (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 833 Votes ) ;

This is the tale of life in a British port in the first year of World War II. Spies and smugglers abound in the blackout and unreal shore life of the ... More Detail »»

78. Johnny Apollo (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 831 Votes ) ;

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's releas... More Detail »»

79. Comrade X (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 819 Votes ) ;

An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.... More Detail »»

80. Too Many Husbands (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 796 Votes ) ;

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky re-married... and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.... More Detail »»

81. One Million B.C. (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.8 ( 770 Votes ) ;

Tumak, member of the prehistoric Rock tribe, is exiled and makes his way to the more peaceful Shell tribe...... More Detail »»

82. Beyond Tomorrow (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 731 Votes ) ;

The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought toge... More Detail »»

83. Susan and God (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.7 ( 717 Votes ) ;

Susan Trexel is a wealthy socialite, who while vacationing in Europe undergoes a religious transformation...... More Detail »»

84. The Howards of Virginia (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 698 Votes ) ;

Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbrining when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard...... More Detail »»

85. You'll Find Out (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 680 Votes ) ;

The manager of Kay Kyser's band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.... More Detail »»

86. The Fatal Hour (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.4 ( 655 Votes ) ;

When Captain Street's best friend Dan O'Grady is murdered, Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong...... More Detail »»

87. You're Missing the Point (1940)

IMDB Rating: 8.4 ( 654 Votes ) ;

The boyfriend (Cantinflas) of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the s... More Detail »»

88. It All Came True (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 646 Votes ) ;

After crooked nightclub owner Chips Maguire murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's ... More Detail »»

89. The Stars Look Down (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.2 ( 644 Votes ) ;

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls ... More Detail »»

90. Down Argentine Way (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 641 Votes ) ;

An American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner.... More Detail »»

91. Doomed to Die (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.6 ( 641 Votes ) ;

Mr. Wong and a girl reporter investigate a shipping magnate's murder.... More Detail »»

92. Brigham Young (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 636 Votes ) ;

In 1844,after the assassination of Mormon leader Joseph Smith by an angry mob in Illinois, the Mormons choose Brigham Young as their new leader and fo... More Detail »»

93. Escape (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 635 Votes ) ;

An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of a German countess he engineers her escape. ... More Detail »»

94. Before I Hang (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 588 Votes ) ;

A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a... More Detail »»

95. Angels Over Broadway (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 576 Votes ) ;

A cuckolded embezzler on the verge of suicide is helped by a tout, an alcoholic playwright, and a pick-up girl to reimburse the money with a gambling ... More Detail »»

96. No Time for Comedy (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 565 Votes ) ;

Playwright Gaylord Esterbrook scores a hit with his first Broadway play, both with the critics and with leading lady Linda Paige...... More Detail »»

97. British Intelligence (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 546 Votes ) ;

Although the home of cabinet minister Arthur Bennett is a hotbed of spies, moles, and double agents, no one knows the true identity of notorious Germa... More Detail »»

98. The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 538 Votes ) ;

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Cliffo... More Detail »»

99. Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 537 Votes ) ;

Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and ev... More Detail »»

100. Lucky Partners (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 521 Votes ) ;

Ronald Colman shares a sweepstakes ticket with Ginger Rogers and they then embark on an "imaginary" honeymoon with their "winnings."... More Detail »»

101. Arise, My Love (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 511 Votes ) ;

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.... More Detail »»

102. The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 509 Votes ) ;

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.... More Detail »»

103. Too Many Girls (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 487 Votes ) ;

Mr Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge he sends four football players as her bodyguards...... More Detail »»

104. Three Faces West (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 474 Votes ) ;

Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler...... More Detail »»

105. Pride of the Bowery (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 459 Votes ) ;

New York City street principles get an East Side Kid in trouble at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp.... More Detail »»

106. Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 455 Votes ) ;

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues...... More Detail »»

107. Vigil in the Night (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 454 Votes ) ;

Nurse Anne Lee blames herself for a fatal mistake of her sister Lucy, who also is a nurse. Anne loses her job...... More Detail »»

108. Boys of the City (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 451 Votes ) ;

Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.... More Detail »»

109. The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.9 ( 427 Votes ) ;

An enigmatic gang leader known as "The Boss," who is a dead-ringer for Simon, puts "The Saint" under suspicion of murder.... More Detail »»

110. That Gang of Mine (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 424 Votes ) ;

A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse...... More Detail »»

111. Flight Command (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 414 Votes ) ;

A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola...... More Detail »»

112. The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 413 Votes ) ;

In 1865, General Gurko Lanen is dictator of "Lichtenburg" in the Balkans. Rightful ruler Zona hopes to get aid from Napoleon III of France...... More Detail »»

113. Turnabout (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 402 Votes ) ;

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.... More Detail »»

114. I Take This Woman (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 400 Votes ) ;

Georgi has attempted suicide in reaction to an earlier love affair. Now that Dr. Decker has married her he sets out to get her to love him...... More Detail »»

115. The Saint Takes Over (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 394 Votes ) ;

Inspector Fernack is framed by a cartel of five gangsters and Simon does his best to prove it before all the conspirators are murdered by a mysterious... More Detail »»

116. A Dispatch from Reuter's (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 387 Votes ) ;

Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter turns...... More Detail »»

117. 21 Days Together (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 380 Votes ) ;

After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime...... More Detail »»

118. Podkidysh (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.8 ( 373 Votes ) ;