1940 Movie Trailers
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Emergency Squad Trailer (1940)
05 January 1940
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake.
Tarantella Trailer (1940)
31 December 1940
Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials (visual and aural) are subject to any conceivable interrelation and modification.
The Stars Look Down Trailer (1940)
22 January 1940
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners.
Bowery Boy Trailer (1940)
28 December 1940
Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in moving Sock's kid brother to a hospital, because Sock blames hospitals for his mother's death.
The Great Profile Trailer (1940)
30 August 1940
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
Trailing Double Trouble Trailer (1940)
10 October 1940
When Moreland's henchman attack Bob Horner the Range Busters break it up. Horner dies but they get the baby Moreland was after.
Pop Always Pays Trailer (1940)
21 June 1940
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money.
Father Is A Prince Trailer (1940)
18 November 1940
Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners.
Edison, the Man Trailer (1940)
10 May 1940
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York.
Phantom of Chinatown Trailer (1940)
18 November 1940
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies.
Charlie Chan in Panama Trailer (1940)
01 March 1940
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
How High Is Up? Trailer (1940)
26 July 1940
The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen.
The Fighting 69th Trailer (1940)
27 January 1940
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
Escape Trailer (1940)
01 November 1940
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
Contraband Trailer (1940)
11 May 1940
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
Vigil in the Night Trailer (1940)
05 February 1940
A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.
Thundering Frontier Trailer (1940)
05 December 1940
After a handful of non-formula westerns, Charles Starrett returned to the mixture as before in Thundering Frontier.
La Mode rêvée Trailer (1940)
28 January 1940
An American star, visiting Paris, falls asleep in the Louvre while a guide comments on Watteau's "Voyage à Cythère".
Kitty Foyle Trailer (1940)
27 December 1940
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
Double Alibi Trailer (1940)
01 March 1940
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
The Saint Takes Over Trailer (1940)
07 June 1940
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.
Gold Rush Maisie Trailer (1940)
26 July 1940
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
Tugboat Mickey Trailer (1940)
26 April 1940
Mickey is performing routine maintenance on his tugboat (with interference from a pelican) when a call comes on the radio that there's a sinking ship needing assistance.
The Old Swimmin' Hole Trailer (1940)
21 October 1940
Teenager Betty Elliott has decided to take over the business and social affairs of her father Doc Elliott.
Calling Philo Vance Trailer (1940)
03 February 1940
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers.
Cantinflas boxeador Trailer (1940)
11 July 1940
We see a young Mario Moreno making us laugh while he trying to fight against an opponent on a ring.
Dancing on a Dime Trailer (1940)
01 November 1940
Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA show at the Garrick Theater in New York and are stunned when the government withdraws their funding on the day of the show's dress rehearsal.
Goofy's Glider Trailer (1940)
22 November 1940
Yet another sport is made 'easy' for us by Goofy's demonstration how- never, ever, to try anything for real, least of all with a glider-flying machine he launches in ways that would kill anything but a cartoon character, such as a giant catapult and even a canon.
Wolf of New York Trailer (1940)
23 January 1940
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
Marianela Trailer (1940)
11 November 1940
Marianela is an orphan young girl living in a small village where she guides the blind young son of a rich country man.
Blondie on a Budget Trailer (1940)
29 February 1940
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.
The Eternal Jew Trailer (1940)
28 November 1940
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.
Meet the Missus Trailer (1940)
29 November 1940
Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.
Hoots Mon Trailer (1940)
26 April 1940
An English comedian is infuriated by a Scottish comedienne's impersonation of him
Tomboy Trailer (1940)
20 April 1940
Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town.
Wyoming Trailer (1940)
13 September 1940
With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.
Arizona Trailer (1940)
25 December 1940
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie.
You're Not So Tough Trailer (1940)
26 July 1940
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck.
Teddy the Rough Rider Trailer (1940)
21 February 1940
This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City.
You Can't Fool Your Wife Trailer (1940)
21 May 1940
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
The Snake Princess Trailer (1940)
03 April 1940
When Sentarô’s father is killed by a drunken samurai, Sentarô avenges him. His deed puts him on the run and leaves his sister behind.
Convoy Trailer (1940)
28 September 1940
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum Trailer (1940)
06 September 1940
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard.
Love Thy Neighbor Trailer (1940)
27 December 1940
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
This Thing Called Love Trailer (1940)
20 December 1940
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
Blondie Has Servant Trouble Trailer (1940)
25 July 1940
Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr.
Home on the Range Trailer (1940)
23 March 1940
A cow and her calf are bedding down for the night. The calf is frightened by a shadow, until it's revealed to be a jackrabbit.
Pride of the Bowery Trailer (1940)
15 December 1940
Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers.
Tom Brown's School Days Trailer (1940)
26 June 1940
When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a policy of strict punishment for unruliness and bulying.
The Range Busters Trailer (1940)
22 August 1940
A phantom-like gunman is murdering the hands at the Circle T Ranch and the Range Busters are recruited by its owner to stop the "phantom".
Three Men from Texas Trailer (1940)
15 November 1940
Hoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins.
Die Geierwally Trailer (1940)
13 August 1940
In the mountains of the Ötztal, the wealthy Fender (Eduard Köck) and Wally (Heath Hatheyer), his only daughter and heir, manage a small farm.
The Man with Nine Lives Trailer (1940)
18 April 1940
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient.
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk Trailer (1940)
11 January 1940
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family.
The Invisible Man Returns Trailer (1940)
12 January 1940
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Primrose Path Trailer (1940)
22 March 1940
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother.
Junior G-Men Trailer (1940)
01 November 1940
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang".