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The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)

Summary: A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

Release Date: July 18, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Music

Director: Alexander Hall

Writers: George Seaton

, Ken Englund

, Aleen Leslie

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Columbia Pictures

Distributor: Screen Gems, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television

Country: United States

Language: English

Hebihimesama (1940)

Summary: An aristocratic family's daughter is a strong princess. The lord is ill and bedridden. The daughter's younger brother is unhealthy and weak as well. The family's steward is aware that the family is weak heading towards financial r...

Release Date: April 03, 1940

Genre: Drama

Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa

Writers: Matsutarô Kawaguchi

, Teinosuke Kinugasa

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

Production: Daiei, Toho Eiga (Tokyo)

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

The Return of Frank James (1940)

Summary: Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse.

Release Date: August 16, 1940

Genres: Drama, Western

Director: Fritz Lang

Writer: Sam Hellman

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox

Country: United States

Language: English

Tempête (1940)

Summary:

Release Date: June 27, 1940

Genre: Drama

Director: Dominique Bernard-Deschamps

Writers: Dominique Bernard-Deschamps

, André Cayatte

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

Production: Belgatos

Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Country: France

Language: French

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

Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

Summary: After a troupe of danseuses becomes unemployed, one of them takes up burlesque dancing while another dreams of performing ballet.

Release Date: August 30, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Directors: Dorothy Arzner

, Roy Del Ruth

Writers: Tess Slesinger

, Frank Davis

, Vicki Baum

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, C&C Television Corporation, Turner Home Entertainment

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

A Chump at Oxford (1940)

Summary: As a reward for capturing a bank robber, Stan and Ollie get scholarships to Oxford, but are met with resentment by other students.

Release Date: February 16, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Family

Director: Alfred J. Goulding

Writers: Charley Rogers

, Felix Adler

, Harry Langdon

Runtime: 1 h 02 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Hal Roach Studios

Distributor: United Artists

Country: United States

Language: English

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Summary: On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.

Release Date: August 16, 1940

Genres: Action, Romance, Thriller

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Charles Bennett

, Joan Harrison

, James Hilton

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Walter Wanger Productions

Distributor: Masterpiece Productions, Time Life Films, Time-Life Video, Lightning Video, Vestron Video, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Collection, Films sans Frontières, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

The Sea Hawk (1940)

Summary: Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for an attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills with the sword.

Release Date: August 31, 1940

Genres: Action, Adventure, History

Director: Michael Curtiz

Writers: Howard Koch

, Seton I. Miller

Runtime: 2 h 07 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros.

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,700,000

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 Long Voyage Home (1940)

Summary: A merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war.

Release Date: November 22, 1940

Genres: Drama, War

Director: John Ford

Writers: Eugene O'Neill

, Dudley Nichols

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Argosy Pictures, Walter Wanger Productions

Distributor: Warner Home Video, Castle Hill Productions, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 682,495

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

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

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

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: February 17, 1941

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime

Director: Raoul Walsh

Writers: John Huston

, W.R. Burnett

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG

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

Hierro en Vizcaya (1940)

Summary: Film from the series "España en marcha"

Genres: Documentary, Short

Director: José Luis Sáenz de Heredia

Writer: Esteban Calle

Runtime: 0 h 21 min

Production: Departamento Nacional de Cinematografía

Country: Spain

Language: Spanish

The Devil Bat (1940)

Summary: A mad scientist develops an aftershave lotion that causes his gigantic bats to kill anyone who wears it.

Release Date: December 13, 1940

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Jean Yarbrough

Writers: John T. Neville

, George Bricker

Runtime: 1 h 08 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC)

Distributor: Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), Madison Pictures, Pictorial Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Arizona (1940)

Summary: In Tucson of the 1860s, a pioneer woman struggles to succeed in the freight and cattle business while at risk at the hands of corrupt and violent local businessmen and rampaging Indians.

Release Date: December 25, 1940

Genre: Western

Director: Wesley Ruggles