The best movies 1940 Pagina 8

Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues.

A quarrel at a birthday party ends in a guest’s death, and the son takes the blame to protect his father. Fleeing to the city, he struggles...

Emperor Franz Joseph's young wife, Queen Elizabeth, was a popular favourite. After the defeat of the War of Independence, the daughter of the...

A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas.

Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid....

Married to stuntman Steve Bennett, movie star Laura Money fears for his life and pressures him to quit his job. However, this demand soon puts a...

A mouse, imitating W.C. Fields, leads a nighttime tour of a closed drugstore for other mice, that include a very inquisitive little boy.

Fifty years old Baron von Fibberg lives at The Fibberg Castle with his wife Olga and daughter Charley. Besides the delight in hunting, Baron is very...

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett,...

A small town farmer, who happens to be very wealthy, meets and falls for an actress, but his friends warn him she's only interested in his money.

The cat-of-the-house is a nuisance to the mice on a cheese-raid in the kitchen. They overturn a box of catnip, cat partakes, and cat goes on a binge...

The film depicts Confucius's later life, as he traveled across a China divided by war and strife in an ultimately futile effort to teach various...

Charley writes to girls all over the world in order to get foreign postage stamps for his collection--but winds up with a passel of girls who think...

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...

The Pilgrims, led by captain Porky Pig, set sail from Plymouth for America. We get a series of ocean sailing blackout gags, including a running bit...

Ignác Semmelweis is 18 and is in Vienna, training to become a judge-advocate, to comply with the wishes of his family. He is, however,...

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a...

In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to...

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach...

Newsreel from the 1940s about the bullfight in the Acho bullring and the performance of the young bullfighters.

Newsreel from the 1940s about the ceremony honoring the Argentine hero Don José de San Martín for the proclamation of Peru's...

A newsreel from the 1940s depicting the city of Ayacucho.

A newsreel from the 1940s depicting the province of Pacasmayo.

A newsreel from the 1940s shows the drinking water of Lima, Callao, and its coastal resorts. It reports that the water is considered to be of the...

A newsreel from the 1940s documenting the inauguration of several galleries at the National Palace of Photographic Art, an art museum created and...

A newsreel from the 1940s depicts the festivities honoring the Virgin of Alta Gracia in Ayaviri, one of the most important cities in the Puno region...

1940s newsreel about the large crowds at "Agua Dulce" beach during the holidays.

A newsreel from the 1940s shows a group of cyclists demonstrating their skills at the Campo de Marte. Among those present at this sporting event were...

A newsreel from the 1940s about the traditional festival of Saint John the Baptist in the pampa of Amancaes, in the current district of Rímac,...

This film by Jorge Bedoya Forga (Arequipa, 1902 - New York, 1968), a pioneer of amateur 8mm filmmaking in Peru, contains footage from approximately...