1940 movies

The Great Dictator (1940)

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Oakie, Jack | Gardiner, Reginald | Daniell, Henry | Gilbert, Billy | Hayle, Grace | DeHaven, Carter | Goddard, Paulette | Moscovitch, Maurice | Dunn, Emma | Gorcey, Bernard | Weigel, Paul | Conklin, Chester | Michelson, Esther
Directors: Chaplin, Charles
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During the last days of the First World War, a clumsy soldier saves the life of devoted military pilot Schultz. Unfortunately, their flight from the advancing enemy ends in a severe crash with the clumsy soldier losing his memories. After quite some years in the hospital, the amnesia patient gets released and reopens his old barber shop in the Jewish ghetto. But times have changed in the country of Tomania: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who accidentally looks very similar to the barber, has laid his merciless grip on the country, and the Jewish people are discriminated against. One day, the barber gets in trouble and is brought before a commanding officer, who turns out to be his old comrade Schultz. So, the ghetto enjoys protection from then on. Meanwhile, Dictator Hynkel develops big plans, he wants to become Dictator of the whole world and needs a scapegoat for the public. Soon, Schultz is being arrested for being too Jewish-friendly, and all Jews except those who managed to flee are transported into Concentration Camps. Hynkel is planning to march into Osterlich to show off against Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria, who already has deployed his troops along the other border of the small country. Meanwhile, Schultz and the barber manage to escape, guised in military uniforms. As luck would have it, Schultz and the barber are picked up by Tomanian forces and the barber is mixed up with Hynkel himself. The small barber now gets the once-in-a-lifetime chance to speak to the people of Osterlich and all of Tomania, who listen eagerly on the radio.

One Night in the Tropics (1940)

Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Jones, Allan | Kelly, Nancy | Abbott, Bud | Costello, Lou | Cummings, Robert | Boland, Mary | Frawley, William | Moran, Peggy | Carrillo, Leo | Alvarado, Don | Orla, Nina | Carle, Richard | Acuff, Eddie | Alston, William | Blue, Monte
Directors: Sutherland, A. Edward
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Waterloo Bridge (1940)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Leigh, Vivien | Taylor, Robert | Watson, Lucile | Field, Virginia | Ouspenskaya, Maria | Smith, C. Aubrey | Shaw, Janet | Waldo, Janet | Duna, Steffi | Carroll, Virginia | Nicova, Leda | Baker, Florence | Manning, Margery | MacInerney, Frances | Stewart, Eleanor
Directors: LeRoy, Mervyn
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On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn’t killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra’s hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family’s country estate.

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Garson, Greer | Olivier, Laurence | Boland, Mary | Oliver, Edna May | O'Sullivan, Maureen | Rutherford, Ann | Inescort, Frieda | Gwenn, Edmund | Morley, Karen | Angel, Heather | Hunt, Marsha | Lester, Bruce | Ashley, Edward | Cooper, Melville | Lamont, Marten
Directors: Leonard, Robert Z.
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Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice, and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.

Pinocchio (1940)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Blanc, Mel | Brodie, Don | Catlett, Walter | Darro, Frankie | Edwards, Cliff | Jones, Dickie | Judels, Charles | Mercer, Jack | Rub, Christian | Darlington, Marion | Page, Patricia | Venable, Evelyn
Directors: Luske, Hamilton
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Inventor Gepetto creates a wooden marionette called Pinocchio. His wish that Pinocchio be a real boy is unexpectedly granted by a fairy. The fairy assigns Jiminy Cricket to act as Pinocchio’s “conscience” and keep him out of trouble. Jiminy is not too successful in this endeavor and most of the film is spent with Pinocchio deep in trouble.