Most Viewed Year 1940 - 11

A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.

A man violates company policy by getting married.

A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage.

A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.

A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...

Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a...

An English fellow lectures about his trip to the Gobi desert to find a dinosaur egg.

My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth...

On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic...

Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby's mine and Hoppy suspects it may...

A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.

A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from...

The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by...

An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.

A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.