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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

Writer: Robert Buckner

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

71 - Rotten Tomatoes
7 votes

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

80 - Rotten Tomatoes
5 votes

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: Passed

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

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

Country: United States

Language: English

83 - Rotten Tomatoes
6 votes

All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

Summary: A duchess' irrational behavior toward her children's governess triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever.

Release Date: July 13, 1940

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Anatole Litvak

Writers: Rachel Field

, Casey Robinson

Runtime: 2 h 21 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

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

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,370,000

86 - Rotten Tomatoes
14 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

86 - Rotten Tomatoes
7 votes

The Ghost Breakers (1940)

Summary: A radio broadcaster, his quaking manservant and an heiress investigate the mystery of a haunted castle in Cuba.

Release Date: June 21, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Director: George Marshall

Writers: Walter DeLeon

, Paul Dickey

, Charles W. Goddard

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, MCA/Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

88 - Rotten Tomatoes
8 votes

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: G

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

89 - Rotten Tomatoes
18 votes

Night Train to Munich (1940)

Summary: After Germany invades Czechoslovakia, the German and the British intelligence services try to capture Czech scientist Dr. Axel Bomasch (James Harcourt), inventor of a new type of armor-plating.

Release Date: December 29, 1940

Genres: Thriller, War

Director: Carol Reed

Writers: Gordon Wellesley

, Sidney Gilliat

, Frank Launder

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Twentieth Century-Fox Productions

Distributor: The Roan Group, Kino Video, Madacy Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Films sans Frontières, Sinister Cinema

Country: United Kingdom

Language: Italian

92 - Rotten Tomatoes
49 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: March 07, 1941

Genres: Comedy, Drama, War

Director: Charles Chaplin

Writer: Charles Chaplin

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: G

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

92 - Rotten Tomatoes
24 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

92 - Rotten Tomatoes
24 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: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

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

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 400,000

95 - Rotten Tomatoes
58 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

95 - Rotten Tomatoes
43 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: Passed

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

99 - Rotten Tomatoes
101 votes

His Girl Friday (1940)

Summary: A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.

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: Passed

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 296,000

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
103 votes

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Summary: After a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

Release Date: January 17, 1941

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: George Cukor

Writers: Donald Ogden Stewart

, Philip Barry

, Waldo Salt

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, HBO Max, The Criterion Collection, Warner Bros.

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 944,000

Domestic: $ 404,524

International: $ 9,053

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
48 votes

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Summary: An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

Release Date: March 15, 1940

Genres: Drama, History

Director: John Ford

Writers: Nunnally Johnson

, John Steinbeck

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, Magnetic Video, 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, Key Video, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Disney Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 800,000

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
39 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

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
29 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 25, 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: Not Rated

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

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
25 votes

The Biography of a Bum (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

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
15 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: December 05, 1940

Genres: Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: William Wyler