1940 Movies

An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone from his past shows up with evidence that in "the old d...

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 tal...

To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home.

Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's hor...

An all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors. Comedy with songs.

A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two j...

The title refers to the office of records in the basement of a large company... sort of the place where a troublesome employee may be dumped in a dead...

An experimental film in which both sound and visuals were created entirely by McLaren drawing directly upon the film with ordinary pen and ink. The ti...

Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.

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

A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.

Alfalfa and the gang decide to turn to a life of crime, but Spanky tries to trick them with a fake burglary.

In his final Western for Poverty Row's Metropolitan Pictures, Bob Steele played Bob Hall, a lawman looking into a series of cattle rustlings. The lead...

Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it and sends for Lee. Lee agrees with Scott and form...

A sadistic big game hunter, Hyde Skinner (a self-described Fur Trapper And All Around Dirty Guy),uses a poor little turtle as a pack mule. He does hi...

A few musical numbers from Dave Apollon and His Orchestra.

Struggling Swenson the baker is down to just a single donut remaining in his shop. He gives it to a blind beggar who stops in. Later, while Swenson sl...