Most Viewed Year 1940 - 5

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tyrone Power

A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Hartmann

Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ginger Rogers

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claudette Colbert

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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Linda Darnell

Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Virginia Bruce

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carey Wilson

When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Boris Karloff

A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ray Milland

One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Victor Mature

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Sheridan

Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Young

After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Hope

With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.

Genre: Western

Cast: Wallace Beery

A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert.

Genre: Action

Cast: Warren Hull

Cantinflas Ruletero is one of his most famous short films, where the great comedian acts as a taxi driver, making his passengers work without taking...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cantinflas

This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice...

Genre: Action

Cast: William Henry

Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Hulbert

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Lee

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Powell