The Invisible Woman (1940)
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge…
Chad Hanna (1940)
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
Arizona (1940)
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won’t be distracted from his…
The Timid Toreador (1940)
The bull makes short work of the matador, and then turns on Porky, a tamale vendor who wanders into the ring accidentally. But then he makes the mistake of actually…
Murder Over New York (1940)
When Charlie’s old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons many disguises to…
Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
You’ll Find Out (1940)
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.
The Letter (1940)
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
Gallant Sons (1940)
When a teenager’s father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
One Night in the Tropics (1940)
Jim “Lucky” Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a ‘love insurance policy’, that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry…
Pursuit of Happiness (1940)
Photographer Rudy Burckhardt shows us the ebb and flow of people rushing about Manhattan. Equally exhilarating in his novel approach to snap images quickly on the run, a method he…
The Trouble with Husbands (1940)
Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands and…
Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip (1940)
Mickey is heading out on vacation from Burbank to Pomona, taking the train. The conductor, Pete, won’t let him on with Pluto, so he hides Pluto in his suitcase, and…
The Great Dictator (1940)
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel’s regime.
Third Finger Left Hand (1940)
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don’t go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the…
The Ape (1940)
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman’s polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a…
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raising…
The Mummy’s Hand (1940)
A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful…
Charley’s (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940)
Charley’s (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford ‘scholars’. The film is one of many to be…
Gaslight (1940)
Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow’s murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired…
Boom Town (1940)
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich….
The Return of Frank James (1940)
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse’s killers, the back-shooting Fords.
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
The Lady in Question (1940)
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn’t convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
The Boys from Syracuse (1940)
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, to find their long-lost twins…
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)
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 eventually decides that…
Three Faces West (1940)
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town,…
The Ghost Breakers (1940)
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the…
Phantom Raiders (1940)
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to…
Hidden Gold (1940)
Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby’s mine and Hoppy suspects it may be ex-outlaw Colby…
My Favorite Wife (1940)
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns…
Beyond Tomorrow (1940)
The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought together.
Saturday’s Children (1940)
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
Porky’s Poor Fish (1940)
Porky Pig owns a fish store and goes out to lunch. After a cat is not having much success with a mouse, he goes into the fish store when Porky…
Johnny Apollo (1940)
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 release. As assistant to mobster…
The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford’s false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford’s sweet…
Dr. Cyclops (1940)
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their…
Star Dust (1940)
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she’s too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.