1940 Movies

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...

This Traveltalk series short begins in the Wenatchee River valley, where apples are the chief commercial crop. In Spokane, we see the Sunken Gardens (...

Elsa lives in a childless marriage. But she longs for a baby. She is drawn to a man that could be the father of her long awaited child.

A Cartune short featuring Punchy.

This short WWII propaganda documentary drives home the point that steel and committed steel workers can make the difference between winning and losing...

A rebellious young woman defies her conservative surroundings and falls in love, setting off a sequence of emotional and social complications. Along t...

In this 1940 entry from Columbia Pictures' "Color Rhapsodies" series, three television pioneers demonstrate how TV works. Featured is singer Madame Di...

Bernd Flor, an aging, but still very attractive, actor feels most at home playing the role of the tireless Don Juan in his private life. He's already...

A day in wintertime Budapest. Shot in an avant-garde style, the study extended over the smallest details of everyday life, observing everybody from wo...

Wartime short promoting the evacuation if urban children to rural areas.

The farmers on the Lohhof, the largest farm in the area, are well known all around and have the highest prestige amongst their peers, not the least, b...

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

In and around some great blues, swing and jazz music, a very unpopular band-leader. Prince Ellis, is killed in a Harlem nightclub, and, in and around...

The wealthy Ottó Dárday is angry with his heirless relatives and marries his maid Julcsa. Only six months after his death does she discover that he ha...

We see a young Mario Moreno making us laugh while he trying to fight against an opponent on a ring.

The heroine, a girl of marriageable age named Yu, married a thirteen-year-old fiancé, but he died three years later. Twenty years later, Yu adopts a c...

A newsreel documenting King George VI's inspection of Australian troops stationed in England, alongside scenes of their military training and off-duty...

Cosmopolitan mixture of variety acts are presented in an international café: Spanish dance, Hawaiian song, Italian street singer, Cossack sword-dancer...

Jack Bunny (a spoof of Jack Benny) invites Hollywood celebrities to his Malibu house for a party.

In this film collaboration between the famous Ealing Film Studios and the Ministry of Food, we have a ‘ringside seat’ at a meeting of the ‘Hillside Ro...