1940 Movies

This one-reel musical short, part of the WB/Vitaphone Melody Master series, features the music of trumpet-player and orchestra leader Henry Busse and...

Spunky is kidnapped and sold at an auction to a cruel Italian peddler. It's up to Hunky to save him.

The famous textile worker Natasha Abrikosova travels from Moscow to Tashkent to introduce the innovative method of the Vinogradovs at a textile mill (...

A wealthy woman pressures her son-in-law to give her a grandson until her daughter finally gets pregnant.

A humble cantor, Oysher yearns to be an opera singer. He deserts his tiny village to pursue his dream, but when his voice breaks he sheepishly returns...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 9 February 1940.

Jack Bunny (a spoof of Jack Benny) invites Hollywood celebrities to his Malibu house for a party.

Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.

Tom Turkey and his friends play their harmonicas so enthusiastically that they nearly destroy the general store.

A vagabond saves the child of a rich family. They adopt him and try to impose to him their values and protocols.

In a camp of sailors, the suicidal and solitary life of Greta, which makes men lose their heads.

Mendel and Hannah Shapiro, an elderly Jewish couple who run a small farm in New Jersey, must get money to meet their mortgage payment to the bank by t...

A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.

Wartime morale-boosting propaganda short, looking at the greatness of Britain and the efforts of all to preserve her power and integrity.

An inexperienced little ghost tries out for a house-haunting job, but winds up getting terrorized by the fat ghost interviewing him for the position.

A young woman pretends to be the daughter of a financier and enters a rich girls' college, where she commits a thousand mischiefs.