...som en tjuv om natten

...som en tjuv om natten 1940

5.00

Nisse Ekberg is in San Francisco but wants to get back to Sweden. Not being a completely honest guy, he gets mixed up with another person and assumes his identity.

1940

'Til We Meet Again

'Til We Meet Again 1940

6.20

Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.

1940

Buck Benny Rides Again

Buck Benny Rides Again 1940

1

Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.

1940

Dr. Kildare's Crisis

Dr. Kildare's Crisis 1940

6.00

Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.

1940

Fugitive from a Prison Camp

Fugitive from a Prison Camp 1940

1

Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of program, the sheriff places inmates in a clean environment and makes them build a road. Despite the improved conditions, the criminals continue to pull off a few shady shenanigans as an innocent man who is sent there soon discovers.

1940

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound 1940

6.70

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 talking picture is created.

1940

Land of the Six Guns

Land of the Six Guns 1940

1

Stone is buying cattle cheap in Mexico, bringing them across the border without paying duty, changing the brands, and then selling them at a big profit. When Jack Rowan arrives and buys the vacant ranch used by Stone to sneak his cattle across the border, Stone sends out his henchmen to finish Jack off.

1940

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case 1940

4.60

Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.

1940

Dr. Christian Meets the Women

Dr. Christian Meets the Women 1940

5.00

A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr. Christian to expose this fake and save a fragile young girl's life.

1940

Fragata Sarmiento

Fragata Sarmiento 1940

1

It narrates the history of the Argentine ship that served for many generations like school for the formation of sailors.

1940

Shooting High

Shooting High 1940

8.00

A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.

1940

Zindagi

Zindagi 1940

1

The story of an unemployed graduate who falls in love with a woman who ran away from her cruel husband.

1940

The Girl from Avenue A

The Girl from Avenue A 1940

1

A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.

1940

You’re Missing the Point

You’re Missing the Point 1940

8.10

Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.

1940

Dr. O'Dowd

Dr. O'Dowd 1940

1

Marius O'Dowd is an Irish doctor who is often drunk. His daughter-in-law Moira dies during a serious operation which O'Dowd is performing. Although O'Dowd is not to blame, his son Stephen suspects that Moira died due to O'Dowd operating while under the influence of alcohol, and accuses him of criminal neglect.

1940

Britain at Bay

Britain at Bay 1940

1

Wartime morale-boosting propaganda short, looking at the greatness of Britain and the efforts of all to preserve her power and integrity.

1940

Sky Bandits

Sky Bandits 1940

5.00

Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devised a power ray which disrupts electrical impulses, and Morgan and his gang of crooks has brought in Prof. Lewis to increase the ray's range, telling him he's helping the government develop this new weapon. Speavy spills the beans to Prof. Lewis and his daughter Madeleine,and Morgan threatens to implicate them in his crimes unless they cooperate. Morgan kills Speavy when he tries to warn Renfrew, but when Madeleine stows away on board the doomed plane Renfrew is piloting, will the crooks be able to make Prof. Lewis use the power ray to bring the plane down?

1940

Frontier Vengeance

Frontier Vengeance 1940

1

Jim Sanders (Don 'Red' Barry), young cowboy, returns to his hometown for a reunion with his boyhood friend Clay Blackburn (George Offerman Jr.). Once there he learns that Clay's father, Frank Blackburn (Ivan Miller), is the unscrupulous proprietor of a stagecoach line and is out to bankrupt the line run by Joel Hunter (Griff Barnett' ), the father of Jim's sweetheart Ruth Hunter (Betty Moran). Jim is forced to lead the fight against his best friend.

1940