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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

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

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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

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Der ewige Jude (1940)

Summary: Under the guise of a brutally honest documentary, this malevolent propaganda film aims to be an "indispensable tool in the hands of the Aryan race", designed to depict the "true" Jew when the masks of western civilisation fall off.

Release Date: November 28, 1940

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Fritz Hippler

Writer: Eberhard Taubert

Runtime: 1 h 02 min

Production: Deutsche Filmherstellungs- und -Verwertungs- GmbH, Berlin (DFG)

Distributor: BuyIndies.com Inc., Loving the Classics

Country: Germany

Language: German

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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

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Jud Süß (1940)

Summary: Infamous anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.

Release Date: January 23, 1941

Genre: Drama

Director: Veit Harlan

Writers: Veit Harlan

, Wolfgang Eberhard Möller

, Ludwig Metzger

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

Production: Terra-Filmkunst

Distributor: International Historic Films (IHF)

Country: Germany

Language: German

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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

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The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Summary: When 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: $ 7,139

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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

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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: April 12, 1940

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

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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

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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

Writers: Claudine West

, Hans Rameau

, George Froeschel

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Archive Collection, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

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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

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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

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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

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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

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21 Days (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: January 07, 1940

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Basil Dean

Writers: John Galsworthy

, Basil Dean

, Graham Greene

Runtime: 1 h 12 min

MPAA: PG

Production: London Film Productions

Country: United Kingdom

Language: Italian

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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

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He Married His Wife (1940)

Summary: Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.

Release Date: January 19, 1940

Genre: Comedy

Director: Roy Del Ruth

Writers: Sam Hellman

, Darrell Ware

, Lynn Starling

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 50,600

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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

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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