Danger Ahead

Danger Ahead 1940

1

The Royal Mounties are called in when one of the armored cars owned by Maxwell, containing a gold shipment, disappears with driver George Hill suspected of trying to get away with the gold. Actually, Maxwell and two henchmen had poured acid on the brake lines, causing the car to crash. Genevieve, daughter of the Mountie chief, suspects Maxwell and Thomas Hatch, president of the bank shipping the gold, but she quickly becomes more trouble than help to Sergeant Renfrew in charge of the investigation. Renfrew and Constable Kelly drive the next shipment but Maxwell plans to make them crash the same way as Hill did. Renfrew steers the vehicle into a hillside and this gives him an idea of what happened to the other car.

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

The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator 1940

8.28

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

1940

Fantasia

Fantasia 1940

7.34

Walt Disney's timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again.

1940

Convicted Woman

Convicted Woman 1940

3.40

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

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

They Staked Their Lives

They Staked Their Lives 1940

5.00

"With life at stake"- Max is illegal arms dealers and lives with Wanda, a spy for the dictatorship in which they live. She is ordered by her superiors to reveal the actions and members resistance group. The freedom fighter John falls in love with Wanda.

1940

Addio, giovinezza!

Addio, giovinezza! 1940

5.00

A university student falls in love with a seamstress. But one day he meets a beautiful woman and things become complicated.

1940

The Shadow

The Shadow 1940

6.50

The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.

1940

Framed

Framed 1940

5.80

A young newspaper reporter finds himself framed for murder.

1940

Melody Ranch

Melody Ranch 1940

5.80

His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.

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

Rebecca

Rebecca 1940

7.89

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

1940

Bellflower

Bellflower 1940

1

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a poor young girl, trying to become a teacher on her quest to become independent to be able to look after her younger brother. But then tragedy strikes...

1940

Miss Knowall

Miss Knowall 1940

1

Short government film on the dangers of gossip in wartime.

1940

Turnabout

Turnabout 1940

5.81

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.

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

Boom Town

Boom Town 1940

6.88

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.

1940