The best movies 1940 Pagina 2

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.

Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the...

Jack Randall plays Dunham, a wandering cavalier who comes to the aid of frontier heiress Mary. The girl's legacy is half-ownership of a prosperous...

Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to...

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous...

A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.

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.

Woman faces the vicissitudes of life with her three adult children well in the background. But when the chips are down...

Another in the long series of "Pete Smith" shorts from M-G-M in which William Newell meets and falls in love with Sally Payne, and begins to budget...

Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.

In the jungles of the Amazon, a group of Western adventurers and two local native guides try to locate a lost treasure buried beneath an ancient...

Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.

Caveman Porky awakens and plays with his pet Rover, a massive dinosaur. After Rover's playfulness causes a disruption to the prehistoric peace and...

A single man and womanizer who enjoys the nightlife learns that he has a son who is already an adult. In order to gain his affection he decides to...

Marshal Tim Smith is sent to Rawhide to battle rustlers. When the outlaw gang attempts to kill the new Marshal, they get the wrong man. Tim puts his...

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a...

A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert.

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...

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with illegal gambling and bookmaking.

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle...

Group of tango musicians picks up an aspiring young chanteuse at one of their whistle stop engagements; film focuses on their collective path to...

Espionage, intrigue, and passion surround the revolutionary invention of a secret weapon. A film that echoes with the world war, by German exiled...

A 1940 film directed by Manuel R. Ojeda,

A woman destroys her life, her marriage and her husband due to her obsessive jealousy.

A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas.

Abslan and Hamed, two cousins of very different character and lives, whose families have put an end to old quarrels, become rivals for the love of...

A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles...

Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.

Accidental meeting between a pop-music superstar and a politician's daughter turns into a big romance... but class distinctions, and scandal in the...

A mute stagehand dreams that he succeeds in the theater after having recovered his voice.

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

A man pretends to be a doctor to kidnap a miser's wife.

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

The story focuses on a middle-class family. It introduces us to two characters: Corina, secretary of Don Emilio Condal, and his brother...

Well-to-do idler loses his fortune, ends up going to night-school and working as butler for a wealthy family. Still posing as a rich toff, he courts...

Some youngsters from the city, visiting the countryside, have fun tricking naive local boys.

The employee of a ranch and the boss's daughter have an affair and he is accused of stealing cattle.