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Subgenre Sampler
Down Argentine Way (1940)- Dir. Irving Cummings
Feat. Carmen Miranda, Betty Grable, Don Ameche - A horse mad New Yorker falls for a wealthy Argentine rancher in this fluffy technicolor musical, but is hampered by the longstanding feud between…
Fighting 69th, The (1940)- Dir. William Keighley
Feat. James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, George Brent - James Cagney plays a loudmouthed braggart who alienates his comrades and officers, but the regimental chaplain (Pat O'Brien) has faith that he'll…
Flash Gordon Serial (Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe) (1940)- Dir. Ford Beebe
Feat. Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton - One of the early Flash Gordon serials, which enthralled audiences in the 1940s. Here Flash must battle Ming the Merciless who has unleashed the…
Foreign Correspondent (1940)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Joel McCrea, Laraine Day - On the eve of WWII, journalist Joel McCrea gets involved in European espionage, some classic Hitchcock set–pieces (esp. the Dutch windmill…
Forty Thousand Horsemen (40,000 Horsemen) (1940)- Dir. Charles Chauvel
Feat. Chips Rafferty - This rollicking war romp depicts the deeds of the Australian Light Horse cavalry during WWI. Stars the archetypal Aussie bushman, Chips Rafferty.
Gaslight (1940)
- Dir. Thorold Dickinson
Feat. Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell… - This potently atmospheric "Victorian" thriller boasts a suitably wired Anton Walbrook as a repressed patriarch who torments his wife in an effort to…
Ghost Breakers, The (1940)- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson… - THE CAT AND THE CANARY stars Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard reunite for this middling chiller with Goddard inheriting a haunted mansion on a small…
Go West (1940)- Dir. Edward Buzzell
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx - The Marx Brothers take on the Wild West armed with one–liners and slapstick in a tamer effort from their later career.
Grapes of Wrath (1940)- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Henry Fonda, John Carradine - Henry Fonda stars in this masterful humanist film about a group of destitute Oklahoma farmers that trek to California in hope of a better life. One…
Great Dictator, The (1940)
- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin - Chaplin's brave subversive satire in which he inhabits dual roles – dictator Adenoid Hynkle and a Jewish barber – for his damning…
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