
7
Edison, the Man
IMDb: 7 1940 107 min
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in ...

6.3
East of the River
IMDb: 6.3 1940 74 min
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.

5.7
Earthbound
IMDb: 5.7 1940 67 min
A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.

6.2
The Earl of Chicago
IMDb: 6.2 1940 87 min
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.

6.2
The Durango Kid
IMDb: 6.2 1940 61 min
The Durango Kid is a sort of Robin Hood of the West who helps the lovely Walters (who replaced Starrett’s usual love-interest, Iris ...

5.6
Drums of the Desert
IMDb: 5.6 1940 64 min
On his way to a post as special adviser of the new parachute troops of the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Paul Dumont meets the beautiful ...

6
Dr. Kildare’s Strange Case
IMDb: 6 1940 77 min
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.

6.5
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
IMDb: 6.5 1940 79 min
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.

7.4
Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet
IMDb: 7.4 1940 103 min
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

6.4
Dr. Cyclops
IMDb: 6.4 1940 76 min
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who ...

6.4
Down Argentine Way
IMDb: 6.4 1940 89 min
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their ...

5.5
The Door with Seven Locks
IMDb: 5.5 1940 80 min
A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A ...

5.5
Doomed to Die
IMDb: 5.5 1940 68 min
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner ‘Wentworth Castle’ (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit ...

6.7
Donald’s Dog Laundry
IMDb: 6.7 1940 8 min
With a rubber bone as a lure, Donald Duck tries to entice Pluto to try his mechanical dog washer. When the bone gives Pluto trouble, Donald tries ...

6.9
A Dispatch from Reuters
IMDb: 6.9 1940 90 min
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

6.5
Devil’s Island
IMDb: 6.5 1939 62 min
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant’s daughter.

5.4
The Devil Bat
IMDb: 5.4 1940 68 min
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company’s ...

7.3
Deadwood Dick
IMDb: 7.3 1940 285 min
Columbia’s 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.

6.7
Dark Command
IMDb: 6.7 1940 94 min
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the ...

4
Antony and Cleopatra, a Love Story of the Noblest Roman and the Most Beautiful Egyptian
IMDb: 4 1908 10 min
A short film based on William Shakespeare’s play of the same name. It was the first film to dramatize the ill-fated romance between Mark ...

6.8
Dance, Girl, Dance
IMDb: 6.8 1940 90 min
Judy O’Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe ...

6.1
Crimes at the Dark House
IMDb: 6.1 1940 69 min
In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his ...

6
Convoy
IMDb: 6 1940 90 min
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

6.9
Contraband
IMDb: 6.9 1940 91 min
During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

6.6
Comrade X
IMDb: 6.6 1940 90 min
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.

7.2
City for Conquest
IMDb: 7.2 1940 104 min
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New ...

6
The Cisco Kid and the Lady
IMDb: 6 1939 74 min
An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child’s real mother.

7.2
A Chump at Oxford
IMDb: 7.2 1940 61 min
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid– Stan in drag– for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets ...

7.3
Christmas in July
IMDb: 7.3 1940 67 min
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the ...

6.3
The Chewin’ Bruin
IMDb: 6.3 1940 7 min
A bear hunter tells Porky the tale of a hunt 30 years ago: a bear got a taste of his chewing tobacco and chased him down to get it; the hunter ...