1940 Movies

A middle-aged auto sales manager is having poor results with his staff, so he gets some advice from his hanky-wearing father.

A Ripley's Believe It or Not short film, it tells the story of a man wrongly imprisoned who goes abroad to find his fortune and ends up getting sent b...

In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. However, he changes his mind when he falls in love...

The tale of two fish in love, threatened by an octopus and saved by an eel.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 1 November 1939.

The story of an unemployed graduate who falls in love with a woman who ran away from her cruel husband.

This Lone Ranger spoof pits the Lonesome Stranger and his horse Sliver against a gang of Mexican banditos known as the Killer Diller Boys.

This documentary was produced on the request of the Korean railway-organisation during the Japanese occupation of Korea. The news-coverage in those da...

James A. FitzPatrick takes a tour of the Fiji Islands. The short depicts the different types of natives that inhabit the islands, and shows villages t...

A small town farmer, who happens to be very wealthy, meets and falls for an actress, but his friends warn him she's only interested in his money.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 April 1940.

A young woman criticized by her family for her dissipated life embarks on a new path.

A film showing how apples may be made an attractive part of the menu for many different occasions. Four recipes--apple salad, apple upside-down cake,...

The oldest Thai ghost film still surviving today. and is an example of the nature of short films used to feature long films in the past. created by co...

Film-within-a-film: two men eating lunch at restaurant see another Shell Oil film entitled "The Largest Club in the World" with Lew Lehr and Don Wilso...

Leon Errol disguises himself as a mystic, in order to fool repo men.