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Subgenre Sampler
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)- Dir. Sidney Lanfield
Feat. Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, John Hubbard… - Generally amusing showbiz comedy has Fred Astaire play a star Broadway dancer who helps his boss (Benchley) out of trouble with his wife over a…
Bank Dick, The (1940)
- Dir. Edward Cline
Feat. W.C. Fields, Una Merkel, Cora Witherspoon - W.C. Fields last great outburst of lunatic humour, playing a not–particularly–interested–in–the–job bank–guard,…
Best of Abbott and Costello, The - Volume 1 (One Night in the Tropics, Buck Privates, In the Navy, Hold that Ghost, Keep 'Em Flying, Ride 'Em Cowboy, Who Done It?, Pardon My Sarong) (1940-1942)- Dir. A. Edward Sutherland, Arthur Lubin, Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello - The first eight movie comedies with duo Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in their patented roles. After careers in variety, silent films and radio, they…
Christmas in July (1940)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn… - Dir. Sturges second film is a short, sweet and sharp satire on 'success', in which a gullible office clerk (Powell) is fooled by his colleagues into…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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