Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3631 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Great McGinty, The (1940)
- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest…
- The first film with Preston Sturges both scripting and directing, this dryly wacky political satire sees cynical bum Donlevy rise to the heights of…
Green Hornet, The (1940)
- Dir. Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
Feat. Gordon Jones, Keye Luke, Anne Nagel…
- George W. Trendle's classic masked vigilante – originally stepping out in comic book and radio form, before appearing on TV (with Bruce Lee as…
His Girl Friday (1940)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
- Fast and furious comic masterpiece with Cary Grant in superb form as a conniving newspaper editor whose ex–wife happens to be his star…
Howards Of Virginia, The (1940)
- Dir. Frank Lloyd
Feat. Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
- Cary Grant rather bumbles through this melodrama set during the American Revolution, playing a rugged surveyor who marries aristocrat and royalist…
Invisible Man Returns, The (1940)
- Dir. Joe May
Feat. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey
- A man falsely sentenced to death for murdering his brother – the original Invisible Man, takes a drug enabling him to vanish from his cell in…
Invisible Woman, The (1940)
- Dir. A. Edward Sutherland
Feat. Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard…
- The mad professor (Barrymore) is about to lose hope of salvaging his project when finally someone answers the call (an ad in the paper) to be his…
It All Came True (1940)
- Dir. Lewis Seiler
Feat. Ann Sheridan, Jeffrey Lynn, Humphrey Bogart
- A crime–themed musical comedy featuring Ann Sheridan as a fledgling singer in her first starring role as well as Humphrey Bogart as a fugitive…