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Subgenre Sampler
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…
- Westerner, The (1940)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan - Gary Cooper stars in accomplished Texan yarn concerning land disputes. Most impressive, though, is Walter Brennan in an Oscar–winning…
Another Thin Man (1939)- Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Otto Kruger… - Nick and Nora, with newborn baby in tow, spend a weekend on Long Island, sleuthing out a shady character whose death threats lead to murder. Adapted…
At the Circus (1939)- Dir. Edward Buzzell
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx - Ring–side high–jinx with the Marx Brothers, one of the high–lights being Groucho's rendition of 'Lydia the Tattoed lady'.
Beau Geste (1939)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston… - Classic Hollywood gallantry with, Gary Cooper as the eldest of three brothers who run away to join the French Foreign Legion, only to clash bayonets…
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