1940 Movies

A motorist's excursion captures a world made by hand in the environs of Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi.

A small child pulls the pages off a calendar, one for each month, revealing a short skit on a holiday for that month

A comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers

Oversize garden pests overcome the springtime urge to garden. The story opens in the spring. A caveman starts working in his garden, where a humongous...

An American star, visiting Paris, falls asleep in the Louvre while a guide comments on Watteau's "Voyage à Cythère". She dreams that the painting's ch...

Venice Film Festival 1940

Olive rushes over to show Popeye the headline: Vaudeville is coming back. They agree to rehearse their old act. After a brief song-and-dance intro, th...

A young woman falls in love with her university classmate but her father is against it. She disappears and soon there are rumours that her spirit haun...

The music score in this film is performed by Oriental Novelty Five, a Hawaiian music group.

Bandhan is a 1940 Indian Bollywood film directed by N.R. Acharya. It stars Leela Chitnis, Ashok Kumar and Suresh. It was the second highest grossing I...

Tove (Bodil Kjer) is a modest and ordinary girl dreaming of winning the competition to become the next big movie star. She applies with a photo of her...

In this crime drama, a renowned eye surgeon goes mad and murders the lover of his wife. He is later given a life-sentence to be spent in a mental hosp...

A film directed by Paul L. Stein.

A cub reporter goes after his story in a big way when he single-handedly exposes a crime ring.

This short dramatizes how profoundly the inventions of Thomas A. Edison have affected the world in which we live. In addition to the electric light, E...

Andy invests in a local theatrical production; when the actors flee with the money, Andy and his wife are forced to take their places and put on a sho...

A comic look at prehistoric life. Inept Stone Age characters play baseball.

Two men will receive $100 if they stay in Old Man Mose’s deserted house overnight in order to dig up his body and get the gold that has been placed un...