Movies released in 1940
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Little Nellie Kelly
1940Feature FilmIrish colleen Nellie is in love with handsome Jerry Kelly, even though her father objects. Nellie and Jerry soon marry and announce plans to move to New York, which again angers Nellie's ... See full summary »
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It's a Date
1940Feature FilmAn aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
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The Green Hornet
1940Feature FilmA newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
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Phantom of Chinatown
1940Feature FilmDetective James Lee Wong is on the scene as archaeologist Dr. John Benton, recently returned from an expedition in China where a valuable ancient scroll was recovered, is murdered while giving a lecture on the expedition.
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Bitter Sweet
1940Feature FilmA woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
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Tin Pan Alley
1940Feature FilmSongwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited ... See full summary »
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
1940Feature FilmYoung Dr. Kildare tries to help an unlucky brain surgeon and his seemingly insane patient.
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My Love Came Back
1940Feature FilmAmelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through his employee Tony so that Julius can ... See full summary »
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Lillian Russell
1940Feature FilmLife 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.
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The Well-Digger's Daughter
1940Feature FilmA rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant.
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Die schöne Wassilissa
1940Feature FilmVasilisa Prekrasnaya, (Vasilisa the Beautiful) is about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. Two of the boys come home with perfectly normal girls, but the youngest ... See full summary »
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Chamber of Horrors
1940Feature FilmA murder is found to be connected to a false heir and a secret underground torture chamber.
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Kit Carson
1940Feature FilmIndian fighter, trapper and frontier scout Kit Carson leads a wagon train of settlers from Fort Bridger, along the Oregon Trail through Shoshone territory, to California which plans to secede from Mexico.
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Michael Shayne: Private Detective
1940Feature FilmAfter gumshoe Mike Shayne is hired by a millionaire to keep his daughter away from gambling and gamblers, he becomes involved in the murder of a racetrack tout.
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The House Across the Bay
1940Feature FilmAn aircraft designer falls for the wife of an imprisoned gangster. All goes well until the gangster gets out of prison...
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Music in My Heart
1940Feature FilmRita Hayworth co-stars with famed recording artist Tony Martin in this musical comedy featuring the music of Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra. Following various comic misunderstandings, ... See full summary »
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The Proud Valley
1940Feature FilmIn a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
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Crimes at the Dark House
1940Feature FilmA madman kills a man who has just inherited a large estate, then impersonates his victim to gain entrance to the estate so he can murder his enemies.
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They Knew What They Wanted
1940Feature FilmWhile courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal.
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Saturday's Children
1940Feature FilmPretty Bobby Halevy loves Rims Rosson, a dreamer and inventor without much going for him. Rims has a scheme of going to Manila to turn hemp into silk and become rich. But when one of her ... See full summary »
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Island of Doomed Men
1940Feature FilmUndercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.
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Young People
1940Feature FilmShirley's last film on her 20th Century Fox contract (aged 12). Her parents (Oakie, Greenwood) decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small ... See full summary »
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Tom Brown's School Days
1940Feature FilmA young boy starts at Rugby boarding school. He is tormented by Flashman, the school bully.
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