1940 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1940

Notable Films Released in 1940

U.S.A. unless stated

A

• Abe Lincoln in Illinois, starring Raymond Massey
• All This and Heaven Too, starring Bette Davis and Charles Boyer
• Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, and Fay Holden
• Angels Over Broadway, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Rita Hayworth
• Arise, My Love, starring Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland
• Arizona, starring Jean Arthur and William Holden

B

• Band Waggon, directed by Marcel Varnel, starring Arthur Askey - (Britain)
• The Bank Dick, written by and starring W. C. Fields
• The Big Blockade, starring Leslie Banks, Michael Redgrave and Will Hay - (Britain)
• The Biscuit Eater
• Bismarck, starring Paul Hartmann - (Germany)
• Black Friday, starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi
• The Blue Bird, starring Shirley Temple
• Boom Town, starring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr
• Boys of the City, starring the East Side Kids
• Broadway Melody of 1940, starring Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell - final film of series
• Brother Orchid, starring Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart

C

• Castle on the Hudson, directed by Anatole Litvak, starring John Garfield and Ann Sheridan
• Charlie Chan in Panama, starring Sidney Toler
• Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum, starring Sidney Toler
• A Chump at Oxford, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• City for Conquest, starring James Cagney
• Confucius - (China)
• Contraband, directed by Michael Powell, starring Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson - (Britain)
• Crimes at the Dark House, directed by George King, starring Tod Slaughter - (Britain)

D

• Dark Command, starring John Wayne
• Dívka v modrém - (Czechoslovakia)
• Doomed to Die, starring Boris Karloff
• Down Argentine Way, starring Don Ameche, Betty Grable and Carmen Miranda
• Dr. Cyclops, directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, starring Albert Dekker
• Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet, starring Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp.

E

• East Side Kids, starring Leon Ames and the East Side Kids
• Edison, the Man, starring Spencer Tracy
• Ergens in Nederland (Somewhere in the Netherlands) - (Netherlands)
• Escape, starring Norma Shearer and Robert Taylor

F

• Fantasia, a Disney animated film
• The Fatal Hour, starred Boris Karloff
• Flowing Gold, starring John Garfield and Frances Farmer
• Foreign Correspondent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Joel McCrea
• Four Sons, directed by Archie Mayo, starring Don Ameche
• French Without Tears, starring Ray Milland - (Britain)

G

• Gaslight, starring Anton Walbrook - (Britain)
• The Ghost Breakers, starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard
• Girl in the News, starring Margaret Lockwood - (Britain)
• Give Us Wings, starring the Dead End Kids
• Go West, starring the Marx Brothers
• The Grapes of Wrath, directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda
• The Great Dictator, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin with Paulette Goddard and Jack Oakie
• The Great McGinty, starring Brian Donlevy
• Green Hell, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Joan Bennett

H

• Here Is the Point (Ahí está el detalle), starring Cantinflas - (Mexico)
• His Girl Friday, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
• The House of the Seven Gables, starring George Sanders
• The Howards of Virginia, starring Cary Grant and Martha Scott

I

• I Love You Again, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
• The Invisible Man Returns, starring Cedric Hardwicke and Vincent Price
• The Invisible Woman, starring Virginia Bruce and John Barrymore
• It All Came True, starring Ann Sheridan, Jeffrey Lynn, Humphrey Bogart

JKL

• June Nights (Juninatten), starring Ingrid Bergman - (Sweden)
• King of the White Elephant (Prajao Changpeuk) - (Thailand)
• Kitty Foyle, starring Ginger Rogers
• Lady with Red Hair, starring Miriam Hopkins
• The Letter, directed by William Wyler, starring Bette Davis
• The Long Voyage Home, starring John Wayne

M

• Maddalena, zero in condotta, directed by and starring Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
• The Marines Fly High, starring Lucille Ball and Richard Dix
• The Mark of Zorro, starring Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell
• The Minister's Girlfriends (Přítelkyně pana ministra) - (Czechoslovakia)
• The Mortal Storm, starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart
• The Mummy's Hand, starring Dick Foran
• My Favorite Wife, starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant
• My Little Chickadee, starring Mae West and W. C. Fields

NOP

• New Moon, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
• Night Train to Munich, directed by Carol Reed, starring Margaret Lockwood and Rex Harrison - (Britain)
• North West Mounted Police, starring Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Madeleine Carroll
• Northwest Passage, starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Young
• One Million B.C. (aka The Cave Dwellers), starring Carole Landis
• One Night in the Tropics, film debut of Abbott and Costello
• Our Town, starring William Holden and Martha Scott
• The Philadelphia Story, directed by George Cukor, starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart
• Pinocchio
• Pride and Prejudice, starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier
• The Proud Valley, starring Paul Robeson - (Britain)

QRS

• Queen of the Yukon, starring Charles Bickford
• Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier - Oscar for best picture
• Remember the Night, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray
• Rhythm on the River, starring Bing Crosby and Mary Martin
• Road to Singapore, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope - first in the series
• The Sea Hawk, starring Errol Flynn
• The Shop Around the Corner, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart
• The Siege of the Alcazar (L'Assedio dell'Alcazar) - (Italy)
• The Son of Monte Cristo, starring Louis Hayward and Joan Bennett
• The Stars Look Down, directed by Carol Reed, starring Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood - (Britain)
• The Stationmaster (Der postmeister) - (Germany)
• Son of Ingagi, directed by Richard Kahn
• Strange Cargo, starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford
• Stranger on the Third Floor, starring Peter Lorre
• Strike Up the Band, directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney

TUV

• That Gang of Mine, starring the East Side Kids
• They Drive by Night, starring George Raft
• They Knew What They Wanted, directed by Garson Kanin, starring Carole Lombard and Charles Laughton
• The Thief of Bagdad, starring Conrad Veidt and Sabu - (Britain)
• 'Til We Meet Again, starring Merle Oberon and George Brent
• Too Many Husbands, starring Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas
• Tørres Snørtevold - (Norway)
• Torrid Zone, starring James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien
• Vigil in the Night, starring Carole Lombard
• Virginia City, starring Errol Flynn and Miriam Hopkins

WXYZ

• Waterloo Bridge, starring Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor
• The Well-Digger's Daughter (La Fille du puisatier), directed by Marcel Pagnol, starring Raimu and Fernandel - (France)
• The Westerner, starring Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan
• Young People, starring Shirley Temple
• You're Not So Tough, starring the Dead End Kids