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The Westerner (1940)

Summary: Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders.

Release Date: September 20, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: William Wyler

Writers: Jo Swerling

, Niven Busch

, Stuart N. Lake

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: The Samuel Goldwyn Company

Distributor: United Artists, Film Classics, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, Embassy Home Entertainment, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), Pioneer Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

8.8 - ZR Critics
1 votes

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

8.3 - ZR Critics
1 votes

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

7.8 - ZR Critics
1 votes

They Drive by Night (1940)

Summary: When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.

Release Date: August 03, 1940

Genres: Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Raoul Walsh

Writers: Jerry Wald

, Richard Macaulay

, A.I. Bezzerides

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: CBS/Fox, Key Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 400,000

7.6 - ZR Critics

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

7.4 - ZR Critics
2 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

7.3 - ZR Critics
2 votes

The Letter (1940)

Summary: The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter written in her own hand may prove her undoing.

Release Date: November 23, 1940

Genres: Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: William Wyler

Writers: W. Somerset Maugham

, Howard Koch

, Andrée Levy

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Key Video, CBS/Fox, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

6.9 - ZR Critics
5 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

6.8 - ZR Critics
3 votes

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: February 16, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Writers: Samson Raphaelson

, Miklós László

, Ben Hecht

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

6.6 - ZR Critics

The 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

6.5 - ZR Critics

Request Concert (1940)

Summary: At the Olympic games in Berlin 1936 Inge Wagner falls in love with Luftwaffenleutnant (Airforce Lieutenant) Herbert Koch. They want to marry, but he receives orders to go to Spain - incognito, without permission for any contacts t...

Release Date: December 30, 1940

Genres: Musical, Romance, War

Director: Eduard von Borsody

Writers: Joseph Goebbels

, Felix Lützkendorf

, Eduard von Borsody

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

Production: Cine-Allianz Tonfilmproduktions GmbH, Universum Film (UFA)

Country: Germany

Language: German

6.4 - ZR Critics
2 votes

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

6.3 - ZR Critics
6 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

6.3 - ZR Critics
6 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

6.3 - ZR Critics
2 votes

Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Summary: In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.

Release Date: December 28, 1940

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Biography

Director: Michael Curtiz

Writers: Robert Buckner

, Andrée Levy

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Warner Home Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Reel Media International, Penteo Films S.L.

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

6.2 - ZR Critics
1 votes

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

6.2 - ZR Critics

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

Summary: Myra and Roy meet and fall in love on Waterloo Bridge during an air raid. Their love will be one of the war's unspoken casualties.

Release Date: May 17, 1940

Genres: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Writers: S.N. Behrman

, Hans Rameau

, George Froeschel

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

6.1 - ZR Critics
1 votes

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

6.1 - ZR Critics
1 votes

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

6 - ZR Critics
8 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

The Westerner (1940)

De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940)

The Long Voyage Home (1940)

They Drive by Night (1940)

The Fighting 69th (1940)

High Sierra (1940)

The Letter (1940)

His Girl Friday (1940)

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

The Rothschilds (1940)

Request Concert (1940)

The Great McGinty (1940)

Fantasia (1940)

The Great Dictator (1940)

Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Anne of Windy Poplars (1940)

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

The Last Alarm (1940)

Rebecca (1940)

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