1940 Movies

Teenager Betty Elliott has decided to take over the business and social affairs of her father Doc Elliott. She thinks her father should marry the wido...

When Popeye tells Olive Oyl that he will propose to her the next morning, she has a dream that their four boys will run roughshod over their house.

Tomorrow is Theirs examines provisions for secondary school education during the war, arguing for the importance of maintaining excellent, thorough sc...

While outside in a hotel garden at night, Miss Tang runs into a vampire. Mr. Li tries to find out if it's real or not. It may have something to do wit...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town.

The Two Curious Puppies wander into a theater and run afoul of a trickster magician's rabbit, a playful seal and an intimidating little bird.

Popeye has a new car; Olive wants a driving lesson. Things don't go well.

Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small to...

Sonja meet Curt in a taxi cab. By mistake, each believes that the other is a rich member of the upper class. They meet on a date, but since neither wa...

Nett Cutler (Elmer Fudd) romances Crimson O'Hairoil in this send-up of Gone With the Wind (1939).

A cheerful comedy about the life of the peripheral town of the late 30s. Despite its remoteness from the center, the town lives a busy life: new house...

Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).

The film depicts one of the great hunts the South Sea Islanders. Come schools of fish in one of the bays on the island, so hurry on an alarm signal al...

Another in the long series of "Pete Smith" shorts from M-G-M in which William Newell meets and falls in love with Sally Payne, and begins to budget fo...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to s...

Dr. Herbert Lee, an archaeologist seeking to decipher ancient Mara inscriptions, is aided by his son Terry, Terry's pal Pat Ryan, and Normandie Drake....