3 Cheers for the Irish (1940) Duration: 1H39M Description: Peter Casey has been with the New York City police department for 25 years. He’s totally surprised when he’s asked to retire on his 25th anniversary with the force. He’s even more unprepared for the romance that develops between h….. Trailer ↗ United States 1940 Comedy […]
Category: 1940
East of the River (1940)
Ritorno (1940)
Ritorno (1940) Duration: 1H10M Description: Two conservatory students fall in love: the woman is an exuberant singer; the man is an earnest symphonic musician. The protagonists, pursuing their respective passions, find themselves faced with different situations: she immedia….. Trailer ↗ Italy 1940 Romance
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)
The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk (1940) Duration: 1H14M Description: A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however… Trailer ↗ United States 1940 Crime Drama
Four Sons (1940)
Junior G-Men (1940)
Barnyard Follies (1940)
Barnyard Follies (1940) Duration: 1H7M Description: Pappy, the manager of the Farmdale orphanage, appropriates five thousand dollars of the taxpayers’ money to enroll his charges in a 4-H project that could make the orphanage self-sufficient. This infuriates Hiram Crabtree and Sam ….. Trailer ↗ United States 1940 Comedy Drama Music
Lady with Red Hair (1940)
Lady with Red Hair (1940) Duration: 1H18M Description: A messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. She’s determined to return to her hometown in a few years as a success and with enough mone….. Trailer ↗ United States 1940 Biography […]
Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)
Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940) Duration: 1H19M Description: Dr. James Kildare has just completed his internship at Blair General Hospital and is assigned to work with his mentor, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. But fearing for the health of his father, Dr. Stephen Kildare, he returns to his parents….. Trailer ↗ United States 1940 Drama
San Giovanni decollato (1940)
San Giovanni decollato (1940) Duration: 1H29M Description: Mastr’Antonio Miciaccio, caretaker and shoemaker devoted to Saint John Beheaded, is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter’s boyfriend ….. Trailer ↗ Italy 1940 Comedy
A Window in London (1940)
The Range Busters (1940)
Murder in the Air (1940)
They Came by Night (1940)
I'm Still Alive (1940)
I’m Still Alive (1940) Duration: 1H12M Description: Steve Bennett is a daring flier who crashes airplanes for the movies, and Laura Marley is an arrogant movie star who is transformed into a very likable woman when she marries Steve. But she, fearing for his life, at her insistence….. Trailer ↗ United States 1940 Action Adventure […]
Saloon Bar (1940)
Saloon Bar (1940) Duration: 1H16M Description: Against a background of Christmas and the pending arrival of another baby for the landlord, a group of pub locals lead by bookie Joe Harris set out to prove that former customer Eddie Graves is not guilty of the murder for which h….. Trailer ↗ United Kingdom 1940 Comedy […]
Victory (1940)
Dreaming Out Loud (1940)
Bowery Boy (1940)
Bowery Boy (1940) Duration: 1H11M Description: Dr. Tom O’Hara takes over a public clinic in New York’s desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom’s interference in moving Sock’s kid brother to a hospital, because Sock blames hospitals for his mother….. Trailer ↗ United States 1940 Action Adventure Crime
Shina no yoru (ato) (1940)
Shina no yoru (ato) (1940) Duration: 2H4M Description: Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese merchant marine officer. Part spy thriller and part Shanghai travelogue, it was part o….. Trailer ↗ Japan 1940 Drama