The best movies 1940 Pagina 4

Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend....

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...

A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled...

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...

dr. Benedek Gábor, a famous solicitor in Eger, is the defense counsel of a murderer, who killed his wife out of jealousy. Gábor lives...

Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an absence of two years. Based loosely on the life of...

The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and...

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

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

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...

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

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to...

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a...

A 1940 film directed by Manuel R. Ojeda,

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...

A Galician immigrant loses her passport and cannot disembark in Buenos Aires. But finally he succeeds and triumphs.

Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.

Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.

Following in the footsteps of a woman, a young farmer travels to the city and there he ends up triumphing as a singer on a radio.

Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four.

The employee of a ranch and the boss's daughter have an affair and he is accused of stealing cattle.

A Juan Oliva's animation short film.

A man returns to the town where he abandoned his wife and daughter for ten years.

Three displaced children hitchhike to Buenos Aires, where they get involved in street-crime and heavier stuff. Positive-role-model adults offer a...

The consequences of having accepted a thief as a guest in the house.

Catita goes with her husband to spend the honeymoon in Rio de Janeiro and on the trip they fall into the hands of a player who will try to use them...

An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give...

Enriqueto, the proud owner of a splendid mustache, feels his heart divided between the kindly Manolita and the feckless Lilí. (A redubbed...

Cantinflas appears flirting with a lady until her lover arrives. Angry, Cantinflas call the husband causing a number of situations.

When her boyfriends are tempted by attractive women who are only interested in their money, two friends decide to join forces to make them give up...

In a poor neighborhood in Mexico City, two gangs of kids fight for control of the center where they work as "boleros", musicians or announcers....

The birds in question are a group of young ladies who, for different reasons, leave the convent where they grew up in order to face "the struggle of...

Marianela is an orphan young girl living in a small village where she guides the blind young son of a rich country man. She is secretly in love with...