Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940
Gold Rush Maisie (1940) Edwin L. Marin, J. Walter Ruben, Ann Sothern, Lee Bowman, Slim Summerville
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family Read More »
‘Til We Meet Again (1940) Edmund Goulding, Merle Oberon, George Brent, Pat O’Brien
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported Read More »
My Universities AKA Moi universitety (1940) Mark Donskoy, Nikolai Valbert, Stepan Kayukov, Nikolai Dorokhin
The last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy’s Maxim Gorky trilogy. Read More »
The Great McGinty (1940) Preston Sturges, Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited Read More »
The Loves of Carmen (1948) Charles Vidor, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Ron Randell
Following the plot of the opera, “Carmen,” this story follows the wild gypsy’s Read More »
Christmas in July (1940) Preston Sturges, Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune Read More »
Hullabaloo (1940) Edwin L. Marin, Frank Morgan, Virginia Grey, Dan Dailey
A movie musical centered on merrily befogged Merriweather’s attempt to restore his career Read More »
French Without Tears (1940) Anthony Asquith, Ray Milland, Ellen Drew, Janine Darcey
The love affairs of three young Englishmen at a language cramming school in the south of France. Read More »
Safari (1940) Edward H. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Madeleine Carroll, Tullio Carminati
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Read More »
Little Orvie (1940) Ray McCarey, Johnny Sheffield, Ernest Truex, Dorothy Tree
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends. Read More »
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940) Sidney Salkow, Warren William, Frances Robinson, Bruce Bennett
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit. Read More »