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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

3.7 - MovieMeter
1296 votes

The Great Dictator (1940)

Summary: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Release Date: June 01, 2020

Genres: Comedy, Drama, War

Director: Charles Chaplin

Writer: Charles Chaplin

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Charles Chaplin Productions

Distributor: Key Video, Columbia Pictures, CBS/Fox, Image Entertainment, MK2 Diffusion, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

3.7 - MovieMeter
694 votes

Rebecca (1940)

Summary: A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.

Release Date: June 07, 2024

Genres: Drama, Romance, Mystery

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Daphne Du Maurier

, Robert E. Sherwood

, Joan Harrison

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Selznick International Pictures

Distributor: United Artists, Eagle-Lion Films, Twentieth Century Fox, CBS/Fox, The Criterion Collection, ABC Video Enterprises, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,288,000

3.7 - MovieMeter
5 votes

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

3.5 - MovieMeter
377 votes

His Girl Friday (1940)

Summary: A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from quitting and remarrying, using an exclusive interview with a death row convict as an enticement to buy himself some time to win her back.

Release Date: January 18, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Howard Hawks

Writers: Charles Lederer

, Ben Hecht

, Charles MacArthur

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: Approved

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 296,000

3.5 - MovieMeter
123 votes

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

3.5 - MovieMeter
6 votes

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

3.4 - MovieMeter
209 votes

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

3.4 - MovieMeter
147 votes

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

3.3 - MovieMeter
693 votes

Fantasia (1940)

Summary: A series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.

Release Date: September 19, 1941

Genres: Family, Fantasy, Animation

Directors: James Algar

, Samuel Armstrong

, Ford Beebe Jr.

Writers: Joe Grant

, Dick Huemer

, Lee Blair

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: G

Production: Walt Disney Animation Studios

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Miracle Productions Company, Image Entertainment, Walt Disney Home Video, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,280,000

Domestic: $ 76,408,097

International: $ 3,722

3.3 - MovieMeter
155 votes

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

Summary: After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.

Release Date: December 23, 1940

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Directors: Ludwig Berger

, Michael Powell

, Tim Whelan

Writers: Miles Malleson

, Lajos Biró

, Miklós Rózsa

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Alexander Korda Films, London Film Productions

Distributor: United Artists, Alexander Korda Films, Embassy Home Entertainment, HBO Max, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), MGM Home Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment, Pioneer Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection, The Samuel Goldwyn Company

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,180,000

3.3 - MovieMeter
66 votes

My Favorite Wife (1940)

Summary: Missing for seven years and presumed dead, a woman returns home on the day of her husband's second marriage.

Release Date: May 17, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Garson Kanin

Writers: Bella Spewack

, Sam Spewack

, Leo McCarey

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, C&C Television Corporation, Republic Pictures Home Video, Image Entertainment, Turner Home Entertainment, Éditions Montparnasse, Warner Home Video, Warner Bros.

Country: United States

Language: English

3.3 - MovieMeter
48 votes

Christmas in July (1940)

Summary: After the co-workers of an ambitious clerk trick him into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest, he begins to use the money to fulfill his dreams. What will happen when the ruse is discovered?

Release Date: October 25, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Preston Sturges

Writer: Preston Sturges

Runtime: 1 h 07 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

3.3 - MovieMeter
5 votes

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

3.2 - MovieMeter
8 votes

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

3.1 - MovieMeter
11 votes

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

3.1 - MovieMeter
11 votes

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

3.1 - MovieMeter
3 votes

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