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52 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1237 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

57 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
469 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

60 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1195 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: Approved

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

62 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
124 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: Passed

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

68 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
74 votes

Road to Singapore (1940)

Summary: Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet a beautiful dancer.

Release Date: March 22, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance

Director: Victor Schertzinger

Writers: Don Hartman

, Frank Butler

, Harry Hervey

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Paramount Pictures

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

Country: United States

Language: English

70 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
2393 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

70 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
696 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

72 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
147 votes

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

73 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
932 votes

Night Train to Munich (1940)

Summary: After Germany invades Czechia, 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: July 26, 1940

Genres: Thriller, War

Director: Carol Reed

Writers: Gordon Wellesley

, Sidney Gilliat

, Frank Launder

Runtime: 1 h 35 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

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: Italian

76 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
749 votes

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

77 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1527 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

78 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
5764 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

79 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
636 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

81 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
6934 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

81 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
3989 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

82 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
5638 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

82 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
197 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

83 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
129387 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

85 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1126 votes

The Mortal Storm (1940)

Summary: The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.

Release Date: June 14, 1940

Genre: Drama

Director: Frank Borzage