Movies released in 1940

Escape to Glory

68/100

A Little Bit of Heaven

66/100

A 12-year-old singing sensation loses her voice when her parents refuse to give in to her harebrained schemes.

Give Us Wings

54/100

Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.

Monsieur Hector

62/100

Charter Pilot

58/100

US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.

Frontier Vengeance

58/100

Jim Sanders (Don 'Red' Barry), young cowhand, returns to his hometown for a reunion with his boyhood friend Clay Blackburn (George Offerman Jr.). Once there he learns that Clay's father, ... See full summary »

Zlota maska

62/100

Wagons Westward

66/100

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,... See full summary »

Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu

48/100

A poet finds a new muse in young woman.

Pioneers of the West

72/100

This entry in Republic's "Three Mesquiteer" series, that skipped back forth in time much like Brick Bradford in his "Time Top" machine, finds the Mesquiteers, Stony Brooke, Rusty Joslin and... See full summary »

The Trail Blazers

73/100

The Continental Telegraph Co. is putting a telegraph line to the town and the fort. They know that the telegraph is needed to stop the activities of the outlaws, but only the outlaws can ... See full summary »

Covered Wagon Days

71/100

Stony Brooke, Rusty Joslin and Rico, the Three Mesquiteers, are returning from Mexico and are stopped at the border by Army officials, who are attempting to apprehend smugglers who are ... See full summary »

I Want a Divorce

62/100

Lucrezia Borgia

45/100

A look at famous Lucrezia Borgia ,in the last part of her life,when she was duchess of Ferrara.

The Phantom Submarine

72/100

On the night before he sails in search of the steamship Arcadia's sunken gold, Paul Sinclair (Bruce Bennett)meets Madeliene Nielson (Anita Louise) in a San Francisco nightclub. On the ... See full summary »

Meet the Wildcat

70/100

The Chinese Den

62/100

A wealthy Chinese banker sets his sights on a pretty British singer, and eventually marries her and takes her back to Chinese Bungalow...

Life Is Beautiful

72/100

While seated one evening in a wine-bar, a successful writer Jan Herold (Oldrich Nový) makes the acquaintance of a young...

The Masked Lover

66/100

Pohádka máje

61/100

Sommerglæder

74/100

Bad Man from Red Butte

52/100

A cowboy arrives in a town, and is immediately mistaken for his twin brother who is wanted for murder

Barnyard Follies

62/100

Carnaval de antaño

74/100

Evocation of the Carnival of 1912 and of 1940 through 4 characters: an entrepreneur and three singers.

A Macabre Legacy

43/100