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Behind the News (1940)

Summary: It's Jeff Flavin's first day on the job as a cub reporter for the Enquirer. The boss, Archer, places him with lazy reporter Stu Woodrow. Stu detests cubs and treats Jeff badly. Jeff saves a drunken Stu's job by covering convicted ...

Release Date: December 20, 1940

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Joseph Santley

Writers: Isabel Dawn

, Boyce DeGaw

, Dore Schary

Runtime: 1 h 15 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Republic Pictures (I)

Country: United States

Language: English

1 - MovieMeter

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

2 - MovieMeter

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: May 01, 1940

Genre: Drama

Director: Max Ophüls

Writers: Carl Zuckmayer

, Marcelle Maurette

, Curt Alexander

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

Production: B.U.P. Française

Distributor: Leo Films, Water Bearer Films

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 5,247

2 - MovieMeter

20 Mule Team (1940)

Summary: In California's Death Valley, in 1892, borax miners scratch a hard living until a map pinpointing the location of high-grade borax surfaces, sending prospectors and crooks alike into a gold-rush-like frenzy.

Release Date: May 03, 1940

Genre: Western

Director: Richard Thorpe

Writers: Owen Atkinson

, Robert C. DuSoe

, Cyril Hume

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

2 - MovieMeter

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

2 - MovieMeter

L'assedio dell'Alcazar (1940)

Summary: Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.

Release Date: August 20, 1940

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Augusto Genina

Writers: Augusto Genina

, Alessandro De Stefani

, Pietro Caporilli

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

Production: Film Bassoli, Ulargui Films

Countries: Italy, Spain

Language: Italian

3 - MovieMeter

Bismarck (1940)

Summary: A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.

Release Date: December 06, 1940

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Writers: Rolf Lauckner

, Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

Production: Tobis Filmkunst

Country: Germany

Language: German

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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

3 - MovieMeter

Anne of Windy Poplars (1940)

Summary: Anne Shirley, now betrothed to her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe, takes a teaching position in a prestigious school far from her home on Prince Edward Island. While she is quickly accepted by her host family, the rest of the...

Release Date: June 28, 1940

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Jack Hively

Writers: Michael Kanin

, Jerome Cady

, Lucy Maud Montgomery

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, C&C Television Corporation

Country: United States

Language: English

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21 Days Together (1940)

Summary: After Larry accidentally kills his lover Wanda's estranged blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. Larry and Wanda nervously await the verdict: if the innocent suspect is found guilty then Larry will give him...

Release Date: April 29, 1940

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Basil Dean

Writers: John Galsworthy

, Basil Dean

, Graham Greene

Runtime: 1 h 12 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: London Film Productions

Country: United Kingdom

Language: Italian

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Escape (1940)

Summary: In 1936, a young man arrives in Hitler's Germany, frantically seeking information about his missing German mother, and finds she is pending execution at a concentration camp.

Release Date: November 01, 1940

Genre: Drama

Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Writers: Arch Oboler

, Marguerite Roberts

, Grace Zaring Stone

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,205,000

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Comrade X (1940)

Summary: An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.

Release Date: December 13, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: King Vidor

Writers: Ben Hecht

, Charles Lederer

, Walter Reisch

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: Approved

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MGM Television

Country: United States

Language: English

6 - MovieMeter

Strike Up the Band (1940)

Summary: A high school boy wants to become a professional musician, and his gal pal wants to become his best girl. They work together staging big band shows with fellow classmates in the hopes of hitting it big.

Release Date: September 27, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance

Director: Busby Berkeley

Writers: John Monks Jr.

, Fred F. Finklehoffe

, Herbert Fields

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 838,661

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The Last Alarm (1940)

Summary: A veteran firefighter is forced to retire at age 65 by the Fire Department.

Release Date: June 25, 1940

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime

Director: William Beaudine

Writer: Al Martin

Runtime: 1 h 01 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Monogram Pictures

Distributor: Monogram Pictures, Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Motion Pictures for Television (MPTV), Reel Media International

Country: United States

Language: English

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Doomed to Die (1940)

Summary: Mr. Wong and a girl reporter investigate a shipping magnate's murder.

Release Date: August 12, 1940

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: William Nigh

Writers: Michael Jacoby

, Ralph Gilbert Bettison

, Hugh Wiley

Runtime: 1 h 08 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Monogram Pictures

Distributor: Monogram Pictures, Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Motion Pictures for Television (MPTV)

Country: United States

Language: English

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Our Town (1940)

Summary: Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century.

Release Date: May 24, 1940

Genres: Drama, Family, Romance

Director: Sam Wood

Writers: Thornton Wilder

, Frank Craven

, Harry Chandlee

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Sol Lesser Productions

Distributor: United Artists

Country: United States

Language: English

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Tom Brown's School Days (1940)

Summary: A young boy starts at Rugby boarding school. He is tormented by Flashman, the school bully.

Release Date: July 19, 1940

Genre: Drama

Director: Robert Stevenson

Writers: Thomas Hughes

, Walter Ferris

, Frank Cavett

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: G

Production: The Play's The Thing Productions Inc.

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, Astor Pictures Corporation

Country: United States

Language: English

10 - MovieMeter

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)

Summary: True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.

Release Date: March 02, 1940

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: William Dieterle

Writers: John Huston

, Heinz Herald

, Norman Burnstine

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Associated Artists Productions (AAP), MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

11 - MovieMeter

Strange Cargo (1940)

Summary: Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure (Ian Hunter).

Release Date: March 01, 1940

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance

Director: Frank Borzage

Writers: Lawrence Hazard

, Richard Sale

, Anita Loos

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Loew's

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,252,000

11 - MovieMeter

Primrose Path (1940)

Summary: A young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but when he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized.

Release Date: March 22, 1940

Genres: Drama, Romance, Mystery

Director: Gregory La Cava

Writers: Allan Scott

, Gregory La Cava

, Robert L. Buckner

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, C&C Television Corporation

Country: United States

Language: Spanish

Movie budget: $ 702,000

Behind the News (1940)

West of Carson City (1940)

De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940)

20 Mule Team (1940)

The Border Legion (1940)

L'assedio dell'Alcazar (1940)

Bismarck (1940)

Gallant Sons (1940)

Anne of Windy Poplars (1940)

21 Days Together (1940)

Escape (1940)

Comrade X (1940)

Strike Up the Band (1940)

The Last Alarm (1940)

Doomed to Die (1940)

Our Town (1940)

Tom Brown's School Days (1940)

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)

Strange Cargo (1940)

Primrose Path (1940)

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