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Subgenre Sampler
Santa Fe Trail, The (1940)- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Olivia de Havilland… - Set in the leadup to the American Civil War, this professionally executed Western has future Confederate general Jeb Stuart (Flynn) lead the charge…
Sea Hawk, The (1940)- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Errol Flynn - Adventure on the high seas with Errol Flynn at the height of his popularity. Magnificent swordplay and battle scenes.
Seven Sinners (1940)- Dir. Tay Garnett
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Albert Dekker… - Tropical romance ensues for Marlene Dietrich's quick–witted, sultry saloon singer whose bad behaviour washes her up at the Seven Sinners Cafe,…
Shop Around the Corner, The (1940)
- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan… - One for the pantheon of romantic–comedy this, directed by the illustrious Ernst Lubitsch (of the famed 'Lubitsch touch') and excelling in its…
They Drive by Night (1940)- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, George Raft, Ida Lupino - Freelance truckies Humphrey Bogart and George Raft do night–runs to deliver their cargo on time, making the first–half an…
Thief of Bagdad, The (1940)- Dir. Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, Tim Whelan
Feat. Sabu, Conrad Veidt, June Duprez - Sabu stars in this magical, intoxicating vision of the Arabian Nights, some twenty years before the genre was revived in SINBAD. Romance, tragedy,…
Tom Brown's School Days (1940)- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Freddie Bartholomew, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Jimmy Lydon - Thomas Hughes' classic novel of life at the Victorian Boys public school of Rugby is given a generous, populist treatment. New boy Lydon finds…
Torrid Zone (1940)- Dir. William Keighley
Feat. James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien - Caribbean–set adventure–comedy in which a fruit company executive (Pat O'Brien) has his plantation plagued by revolutionaries so he…
Twenty One Days (21 Days Together) (1940)- Dir. Basil Dean
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks… - Laurence Olivier plays a playboy embroiled in the death of an attractive model's blackmailer in this curious pre–war melodrama, from the…
Waterloo Bridge (1940)- Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor - Vivien Leigh's follow–up performance to GONE WITH THE WIND is cited as her favourite. It's a sumptuous romantic tragedy about war–torn…
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