Movies released in 1940

The Green Archer

66/100

The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother, Abel Bellamy, takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans.

Spare a Copper

63/100

A brave wartime copper (policeman) becomes a hero when he thwarts a plot to destroy a battleship. But then the rest of the police get the idea that he is one of the enemy agents.

Millionaires in Prison

60/100

A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.

The Stationmaster

70/100

When two russian captains of cavalry came to a German post station one of them recalls what happened long time ago...

Men with Steel Faces

46/100

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

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt

61/100

Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.

Midnight Limited

52/100

The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train "The Midnight Limited" and Val Lennon and his pretty assistant, Joan Marshall, are on ... See full summary »

Out West with the Peppers

57/100

The Peppers - widowed Mrs. Pepper and her five children Polly, Ben, Joey, Davie and Phronsie - and the Kings - mining businessman J.H. King and his grandson Jasper King - are still living ... See full summary »

40,000 Horsemen

65/100

Three young Australians join the army at the beginning of World War I and are assigned to the Australian Light Horse cavalry, which is serving in Palestine. The three eventually take part ... See full summary »

Hidden Gold

68/100

Hoppy and Lucky confront a gang of outlaws which has been ravaging stagecoaches and gold mines. The final gunfight is at Ed Colby's mine.

SF-paraati

57/100

She Couldn't Say No

66/100

Wally is a lawyer with no clients so when he gets a job to buy a lake and the surrounding 1000 acres for Trans Atlantic Airlines...

Tanya

62/100

The story of a Soviet Cinderella

The Durango Kid

69/100

The first film in which Charles Starrett played an alter-ego character known as "The Durango Kid" but this entry, for all intents and purposes, has only the names of Starrett and "Durango" ... See full summary »

South of Pago Pago

70/100

A TREASURE HUNT ADVENTURE !

Ellery Queen, Master Detective

62/100

The mysteriously ill John Braun makes a new will, leaving out his daughter Barbara, over the protests of his wife. The trouble began when the daughter wanted to marry Mr. Braun's doctor, ... See full summary »

Lady in Distress

68/100

A passerby witnesses a murder through the windows of a passing train. He then tries to track down the killer.

Young Buffalo Bill

57/100

Buffalo Bill, who bears virtually no relation to the real one, gets in a fight over mining lands in New Mexico. Indians besiege a Spanish rancho and the U.S. Cavalry rides to the rescue.

Aatamin puvussa - ja vähän Eevankin...

51/100

South of Suez

64/100

Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger Smythe's mine just as he was about to ... See full summary »

Marked Men

57/100

Bill Carver is a young medical-school graduate wrongly confined in prison. He escapes and finds a haven and romance in an Arizona small town. But his hopes of happiness and freedom are ... See full summary »

King of the Lumberjacks

55/100

Two men and one woman in logging country and their changing love triangle.

Gaucho Serenade

71/100

A bunch of businessmen are out to kidnap a former partner's son so he won't squeal on them. Guess who must stop them.

The Light of Western Stars

57/100

Cowhand Ladd dances with cantina girl Estrella and has a part in shooting Sheriff Tyler.

The Showdown

66/100

European bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves.