1940 Movies

Lightships (ships serving the functions of a lighthouse) have for centuries been treated as neutral during wartime, but a British lightship during Wor...

A German spy is dispatched to Britain to search out targets for a planned invasion.

Olive sends a farewell letter to Popeye: She's over sailors; it's cowboys for her; she's gone out west, to Bar None Ranch. Popeye immediately travels...

A flea sets up its new home in the fur of a sleeping dog.

This one-reel film was produced during the middle of the Second World War. It purports to offer a portrait of the British people, in broad and in fine...

Service with the Colors is a 1940 American short drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason. This drama is "dedicated to the soldiers of the United States...

The race is on for the state railroad franchise: It's the Onion Pacific - Popeye - against the Sudden Pacific - Bluto. There's a kiss from Olive for t...

Flock to your local keep fit class - there's a war on and Britain needs its citizens in tip-top shape.

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.

Frontiersman Tom Garfield and his pals endeavor to save their land from the clutches of slimy easterner Forsyth. The villain hires a bit of local musc...

This issue of RKO's Information Please series, based on the radio program featuring most of the same people, has Howard Lindsay, co-author and co-star...

In Santa Cruz, in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Governor of the island, to ingratiate himself with the Viceroy, contrives to make ass...

The Legend of the Luftwaffe began in Poland, the first victim of Hitler's blitzkrieg. Combat cameramen filmed the aerial campaign, showing preparation...

A mother ladybug has too many children to handle, so she puts out an ad for a maid to help with the chores. A big black spider dresses up as a maid to...

Charley writes to girls all over the world in order to get foreign postage stamps for his collection--but winds up with a passel of girls who think he...

In a palace in Nice, a modest valet is confused with his master, a viscount chased by a man-eater.