Movies released in 1940

Take Me Back to Oklahoma

57/100

Storm is out to wreck Ace's stage line. When Tex arrives to help Ace, Storm brings in hired killer Mule Bates. But Tex and Bates know each other and the two devise a plan to fool Storm.

Dr. Christian Meets the Women

61/100

A "professor" hits Dr. Christian's town, promising the local women dramatic weight loss in a very short...

Triple Justice

63/100

Rancher Brad Henderson (George O'Brien) rides to Star City to be the best man at the wedding of his boyhood friend, Sheriff Bill Gregory (LeRoy Mason) Encountering Fred Cleary (Paul Fix), ... See full summary »

Mrs. Pym of Scotland Yard

56/100

An eccentric woman detective investigates the murders of several people who visited the same medium.

Three Cockeyed Sailors

61/100

Three British sailors find they've accidentally strayed on board a Nazi ship during WWII. They then proceed to take it over and requisition it for the Royal Navy.

Der Herr im Haus

71/100

Billy the Kid's Gun Justice

58/100

The third in the series of six PRC westerns starring Bob Steele as Billy the Kid (Bob Steele, finds Billy and his pals, Jeff Blanchard (Carleton Young) and Fuzzy Jones (Al St. John) ... See full summary »

Kronans käcka gossar

51/100

The misadventures of 52:an Nisse, 47:an Kalle and 55:an Lasse in the military service.

Rancho Grande

70/100

Kay and her eastern clan go out West to run the ranch left her by her grandfather. Badguys are out to ruin the ranch's irrigation system, so Autry lends a hand.

Beredskapspojkar

54/100

Nisse och Calle are two actors who has just completed their third movie about the military and now they look forward to a nice vacation. Then they get called into the real military service.

French Without Tears

72/100

The love affairs of three young Englishmen at a language cramming school in the south of France. Diana, the sister of one of the boys, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates.

Terry and the Pirates

64/100

Dr. Herbert Lee (John Paul Jones), an archaeologist seeking to decipher ancient Mara inscriptions, is aided by his son, Terry (William Tracy), and Terry's pal, Pat Ryan (Jeff York), and ... See full summary »

Rocky Mountain Rangers

70/100

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... See full summary »

Under Texas Skies

74/100

Stony Brooke returns to his home town only the learn that his father, Sheriff Brooke, has been murdered and that his boyhood friend, Tucson Smith has been convicted and is to hang for the ... See full summary »

Ergens in Nederland

66/100

A mobilization on the brink of the Second World War divides a husband and wife.

The Way of All Flesh

80/100

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he ... See full summary »

I Take This Oath

53/100

The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.

Prítelkyne pana ministra

72/100

Son of the Navy

64/100

Actually, the sailor wants nothing to do with the boy, who we eventually find out is an orphan who ran away from the orphanage...

The Man from Dakota

53/100

During the Civil War a beautiful woman helps two Union spies cross into the Confederacy and gather information.

Drums of the Desert

58/100

On his way to a post as special adviser of the new parachute troops of the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Paul Dumont meets the beautiful Helene on the ship. A romance ensues, but the ... See full summary »

Legion of the Lawless

66/100

In the 13th film of the 17 B-westerns made by George O'Brien in 1937-1940 for RKO, (who would remake "Legion of the Lawless" two years later as "Pirates of the Prairie" with Tim Holt), ... See full summary »

The Range Busters

66/100

After the owner of the Circle T Ranch is murdered by a ghostly serial killer, owner Madge Thorp resists offers to buy the ranch and is helped defend her property by the Range Busters.

Viva Cisco Kid

61/100

Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to murder him.

The Gay Caballero

60/100

The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Not only that: Before his death, he is believed to have attempted to steal Susan Wetherby's land.