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He Married His Wife (1940)

Summary: Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.

Release Date: January 19, 1940

Genre: Comedy

Director: Roy Del Ruth

Writers: Sam Hellman

, Darrell Ware

, Lynn Starling

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 50,600

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Summary: Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

Release Date: January 12, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Writers: Samson Raphaelson

, Miklós László

, Ben Hecht

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

The Border Legion (1940)

Summary: An Eastern doctor is on the run from authorities in New York. Out west he comes to the aid of friends besieged by an outlaw gang known as the border legion. In the end, he is cleared of any wrong-doing back east.

Release Date: December 05, 1940

Genre: Western

Director: Joseph Kane

Writers: Zane Grey

, Olive Cooper

, Louis Stevens

Runtime: 0 h 58 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Republic Pictures (I)

Distributor: Hollywood Television Service, Reel Media International

Country: United States

Language: English

Donald's Dog Laundry (1940)

Summary: Donald attempts to entice Pluto to try his automated dog washer, but is unexpectedly caught himself and is scrubbed, and hung on the line to dry.

Release Date: April 05, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Animation, Short

Director: Jack King

Writers: Carl Barks

, Chuck Couch

, Ralph Wright

Runtime: 0 h 08 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Productions

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, Walt Disney Home Video, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

The Fishing Bear (1940)

Summary: Barney's going fishing, but just as he's getting ready to hook a whole school of trout, a rather persistent duck keeps getting in the way.

Release Date: January 20, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Animation, Short

Director: Rudolf Ising

Writer: William Hanna

Runtime: 0 h 08 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Grand Ole Opry (1940)

Summary: 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 a...

Release Date: June 25, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Music

Director: Frank McDonald

Writers: Dorrell McGowan

, Stuart E. McGowan

Runtime: 1 h 07 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Republic Pictures (I)

Distributor: Republic Pictures (I)

Country: United States

Language: English

West of Carson City (1940)

Summary: When a gold strike turns a ghost town into a boom town, Gorman arrives to open his crooked gambling hall and Judge Harkins arrives to bring law and order. Jim Bannister is aiding the Judge by bringing in Gorman's outlaws and to lu...

Release Date: January 19, 1940

Genre: Western

Director: Ray Taylor

Writers: Milton Raison

, Sherman L. Lowe

, Jack Bernhard

Runtime: 0 h 56 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Universal Pictures

Distributor: Flamingo Telefilms

Country: United States

Language: English

The Great McGinty (1940)

Summary: Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.

Release Date: August 23, 1940

Genre: Comedy

Director: Preston Sturges

Writer: Preston Sturges

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: MCA/Universal Pictures, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 350,000

Knute Rockne All American (1940)

Summary: The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

Release Date: October 05, 1940

Genres: Drama, Sport, Biography

Directors: Lloyd Bacon

, William K. Howard

Writers: Robert Buckner

, Mrs. Knute Rockne

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Dominant Pictures Corporation, Associated Artists Productions (AAP), MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Stream Go Media

Country: United States

Language: English

I Love You Again (1940)

Summary: Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

Release Date: August 09, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Music

Director: W.S. Van Dyke

Writers: Leon Gordon

, Maurine Dallas Watkins

, Octavus Roy Cohen

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Warner Home Video, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

High Sierra (1940)

Summary: After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.

Release Date: January 25, 1941

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime

Director: Raoul Walsh

Writers: John Huston

, W.R. Burnett

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Dominant Pictures Corporation, Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Key Video, CBS/Fox, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 455,000

Die Rothschilds (1940)

Summary: Anti-semitic Nazi propaganda "biography" of the Rothschilds, a German Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.

Release Date: July 17, 1940

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Erich Waschneck

Writers: Mirko Jelusich

, C.M. Köhn

, Gerhard T. Buchholz

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

Production: Universum Film (UFA)

Country: Germany

Language: German

The Fighting 69th (1940)

Summary: Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.

Release Date: January 27, 1940

Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography

Director: William Keighley

Writers: Norman Reilly Raine

, Fred Niblo Jr.

, Dean Riesner

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Warner Bros. Television

Country: United States

Language: English

De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940)

Summary: In the late 1800's, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, falls for Sophie Chotek, a Czech countess. He's already a problem to the Crown because of his political ideas; this love affair with someone not of royal bl...

Release Date: October 29, 1940

Genre: Drama

Director: Max Ophüls

Writers: Carl Zuckmayer

, Marcelle Maurette

, Curt Alexander

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

Production: B.U.P. Française

Distributor: Leo Films, Water Bearer Films

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 5,247

Addio, giovinezza! (1940)

Summary:

Release Date: December 24, 1940

Genre: Comedy

Director: Ferdinando Maria Poggioli

Writers: Sandro Camasio

, Giacomo Debenedetti

, Salvatore Gotta

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

Production: Industrie Cinematografiche Italiane (ICI), Società Anonima Finanziamento Industrie Cinematografiche (SAFIC)

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Gallant Sons (1940)

Summary: Two childhood friends have a falling out because of their fathers' occupations, which lands one father in jail.

Release Date: November 15, 1940

Genre: Mystery

Director: George B. Seitz

Writers: William R. Lipman

, Marion Parsonnet

Runtime: 1 h 16 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940)

Summary: A wealthy publisher uses a disguise and calls himself the Green Hornet to fight crime in his city.

Release Date: December 24, 1940

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime

Directors: Ford Beebe

, John Rawlins

Writers: George H. Plympton

, Basil Dickey

, Sherman L. Lowe

Runtime: 4 h 53 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Universal Pictures

Distributor: Universal Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Hans nåds testamente (1940)

Summary: The Baron of Rogershus will celebrate his 65th birthday. He decides to write his will and publish it on the birthday.

Release Date: December 26, 1940

Genre: Comedy

Director: Per Lindberg

Writers: Hjalmar Bergman

, Stina Bergman

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

Production: Svensk Filmindustri (SF)

Country: Sweden

Language: Swedish

Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! (1940)

Summary: In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. However, he changes his mind when he falls in love with another woman--but he can't stop the man trying to kill him because he doe...

Release Date: June 07, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Mystery

Director: Charles Lamont