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All This, and Heaven Too (1940) USAGenre: Drama / Romance Release: 1940 July, 4 When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband... IMDb: 7.4/10 (5 645) |
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Three Faces West (1940) USA Genre: Adventure / Drama / Romance Release: 1940 July, 3 Viennese surgeon Dr... IMDb: 6.1/10 (1 025) |
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Untamed (1940) USA Genre: Adventure / Drama / Romance Release: 1940 July, 2 Dr... IMDb: 5.2/10 (70) |
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Out West with the Peppers (1940) USA Genre: Comedy / Drama / Western Release: 1940 June, 30 The Peppers - widowed Mrs... IMDb: 5.4/10 (166) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Adventures of Red Ryder (1940) USA Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Western Release: 1940 June, 28 Mesquite banker Calvin Drake plans to profit from the Santa Fe Railroad's acquisition of right-of-way by gaining control of the land in the territory... IMDb: 7.1/10 (169) |
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Anne of Windy Poplars (1940) USA Genre: Drama Release: 1940 June, 28 Anne Shirley, having recently wed her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe, takes a teaching position in a prestigious school far from her home on Prince Edward Island... IMDb: 6.3/10 (241) |
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Hold That Woman! (1940) USA Genre: Comedy / Crime / Romance Release: 1940 June, 28 A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments... IMDb: 5.6/10 (199) |
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Queen of the Mob (1940) USA Genre: Crime / Drama Release: 1940 June, 28 IMDb: 6.4/10 (105) |
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Tom Brown's School Days (1940) USA Genre: Drama Release: 1940 June, 27 Thomas Arnold is hired to be the new headmaster at Rugby, whose students have acquired a reputation for being wild, disruptive, and dishonest... IMDb: 6.6/10 (550) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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Grand Ole Opry (1940) USA Genre: Comedy / Music Release: 1940 June, 25 Abner Weaver, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks, through the music of performers from 'The Grand Ole Opry," and the antics and help of his family and the local citizens, manages to pass a legislative bill to help the farmers, and also wins the election for state government from a group of crooked politicians... IMDb: 6.8/10 (72) |
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Lucky Cisco Kid (1940) USA Genre: Western Release: 1940 June, 23 Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid... IMDb: 6.0/10 (108) |
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Wagons Westward (1940) USA Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Western Release: 1940 June, 19 Republic, in pre-production trade announcements, had John Wayne slated as the star of this film but cooler heads, once the script was read, realized that Wayne wasn't exactly the dual-role, twin brothers type... IMDb: 6.7/10 (77) |
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Barnyard Babies (1940) USA Genre: Animation / Short Release: 1940 June, 14 IMDb: 5.6/10 (24) |
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Prairie Law (1940) USA Genre: Adventure / Romance / Western Release: 1940 June, 14 Judge Curry is selling Austin's land to nesters and his men are rustling his cattle to provide beef... IMDb: 6.1/10 (129) |
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The Mortal Storm (1940) USA Genre: Drama Release: 1940 June, 14 Interesting to note that the film was made in 1940, 1 year before America's entry into the European war against Hitler... IMDb: 7.7/10 (6 449) |
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Cinderella's Feller (1940) USA Genre: Short / Family / Fantasy / Musical Release: 1940 June, 8 IMDb: 5.5/10 (50) |
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Brother Orchid (1940) USA Genre: Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance Release: 1940 June, 7 Gang boss Little John Sarto returns from Europe where he was looking for "class" to find his old mob taken over by Jack Burns... IMDb: 7.0/10 (3 318) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Susan and God (1940) USA Genre: Drama / Comedy Release: 1940 June, 7 Susan Trexel is a wealthy socialite, who while vacationing in Europe undergoes a religious transformation... IMDb: 5.9/10 (1 468) |
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Earthbound (1940) USA Genre: Mystery / Fantasy Release: 1940 June, 6 Nick and Ellen's second honeymoon in Switzerland is interrupted when he is called back to Paris on business... IMDb: 5.7/10 (170) |
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Florian (1940) USA Genre: Drama Release: 1940 June, 5 IMDb: 7.3/10 (105) |
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The Way of All Flesh (1940) USA Genre: Crime / Drama / Romance Release: 1940 June, 5 Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children... IMDb: 6.8/10 (128) |
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Bad Man from Red Butte (1940) USA Genre: Western Release: 1940 May, 31 Buck arrives in the town where his outlaw twin brother Gil Brady is also located... IMDb: 5.3/10 (118) |
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Bubbling Troubles (1940) USA Genre: Comedy / Family / Short Release: 1940 May, 25 To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew... IMDb: 6.8/10 (119) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Our Town (1940) USA Genre: Drama / Romance Release: 1940 May, 24 Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century... IMDb: 6.5/10 (3 192) |
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Rocky Mountain Rangers (1940) USA Genre: Western Release: 1940 May, 24 This entry in Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" series has a misnomer for a title since the action takes place in Texas and pre-statehood Oklahoma, and the Rocky Mountains are in neither state, but Republic, which easily produced the best of the B-westerns, quite often used a title that had nothing to do with the locale of the film... IMDb: 6.8/10 (71) |
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The Biscuit Eater (1940) USA Genre: Drama / Family Release: 1940 May, 22 Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs... IMDb: 7.2/10 (252) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Sandy Is a Lady (1940) USA Genre: Comedy Release: 1940 May, 21 IMDb: 4.9/10 (16) |
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Those Were the Days! (1940) USA Genre: Comedy / Romance Release: 1940 May, 21 A middle-aged couple think back to their college days and courtship... IMDb: 6.7/10 (124) |
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On Their Own (1940) USA Genre: Comedy Release: 1940 May, 17 The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court... IMDb: 6.2/10 (33) |
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Waterloo Bridge (1940) USA Genre: Drama / War / Romance Release: 1940 May, 17 On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front... IMDb: 7.7/10 (11 386) |
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Lillian Russell (1940) USA Genre: Biography / Drama / History / Music Release: 1940 May, 15 Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore... IMDb: 6.4/10 (609) |
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Taiheiyô kôshinkyoku (1940) JapanRelease: 1940 May, 15 IMDb: 6.4/10 (609) |
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Alias the Deacon (1940) USA Genre: Adventure / Comedy Release: 1940 May, 13 A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game... IMDb: 5.7/10 (38) |
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Gaucho Serenade (1940) USA Genre: Action / Comedy / Drama / Music / Western Release: 1940 May, 10 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 horse, Champion... IMDb: 6.3/10 (165) |
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I Was an Adventuress (1940) USA Genre: Comedy / Crime / Drama Release: 1940 May, 10 Andre Desormeaux, master con artist and jewel thief, has been very successful with his partners, light-fingered Polo and beautiful lure "Countess" Tanya Vronsky... IMDb: 6.7/10 (417) |
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Edison, the Man (1940) USA Genre: Biography / Drama Release: 1940 May, 10 Hoored at a banquet for his sixty year career as an inventor, scientist, and businessman, 89 year old Thomas Alva Edison reflects back on his long career, which includes such achievements as the stock market ticker, the phonograph, the light bulb, and the motion picture... IMDb: 7.0/10 (1 897) |
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Dead Man's Shoes (1940) United KingdomGenre: Drama Release: 1940 May, 5 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 days" he had been a notorious criminal, and threatens to expose him unless he pays off... IMDb: 7.9/10 (36) |
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Spots Before Your Eyes (1940) USA Genre: Short Release: 1940 May, 4 IMDb: 7.9/10 (36) |
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Mutiny in the County (1940) USA Genre: Short / Comedy Release: 1940 May, 3 When some pesky boys accidentally break his window playing baseball, and Edgar accidentally throws their baseball at some cops, he is cited and told to report to the judge... IMDb: 5.5/10 (15) |
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Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940) USA Genre: Mystery Release: 1940 May, 2 Charlie tries to discover the identity of a strangler who strikes multiple times on a cruise ship bound from Honolulu to California... IMDb: 7.1/10 (1 543) |
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My Favorite Wife (1940) USA Genre: Comedy / Romance Release: 1940 May, 2 Ellen Arden arrives 7 years after being given up for dead in a shipwreck, to find her husband Nick just remarried to Bianca... IMDb: 7.2/10 (12 112) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940) FranceGenre: Drama Release: 1940 May, 1 In the late 1800's, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, falls for Sophie Chotek, a Czech countess... IMDb: 6.7/10 (322) |
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Jugyôryô (1940) Korea Release: 1940 April, 30 Follows the trials and tribulations of schoolboy Young-Dal as he struggles to find the money to pay for his education... IMDb: 6.1/10 (37) |
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Saps at Sea (1940) USA Genre: Comedy Release: 1940 April, 29 Oliver suffers a nervous breakdown as a result of working in a horn factory, but when he follows doctor's orders about sea air, he finds an ex-con is aboard... IMDb: 7.1/10 (3 239) |
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An Angel from Texas (1940) USA Genre: Comedy / Romance Release: 1940 April, 27 Stage struck Lydia Weston leaves her small Texas town for Broadway... IMDb: 5.7/10 (302) |
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The New Pupil (1940) USA Genre: Comedy / Family / Short Release: 1940 April, 27 There is a new girl in school and Alfalfa and Spanky will do anything to win her over, even if it involves getting dressed up as girls... IMDb: 5.9/10 (97) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940) USA Genre: Comedy Release: 1940 April, 25 June Cameron has written a best seller about spinsters: women are men's equals and don't need them for fulfillment... IMDb: 6.8/10 (1 115) |
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Irene (1940) USA Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance Release: 1940 April, 23 Sent by her employers on an errand to the home of the wealthy Mrs... IMDb: 6.3/10 (812) |
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A Rainy Day with the Bear Family (1940) USA Genre: Animation / Family / Comedy / Short Release: 1940 April, 20 Mrs... IMDb: 6.4/10 (184) |
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Tomboy (1940) USA Genre: Romance / Drama Release: 1940 April, 20 Kelly, retired baseball player, brings his daughter Pat to Centerville to live... IMDb: 5.5/10 (24) |
