All Films

A Fugitive from Justice

1940 • 53 min • United States of America

Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.

The Man from Tumbleweeds

1940 • 59 min • United States of America

Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.

Oklahoma Renegades

1940 • 57 min • United States of America

Stony Brooke, Rusty Joslin and Rico, known as The Three Mesquiteers, return to Oklahoma at the close of the Spanish-American War, and are concerned that some of their wounded buddies have no prospects for a satisfactory future. When the government offers preferred homesteads in the newly-opened Oklahoma territory to war veterans, they send word for their pals to join them there. Once there, the veterans meet a hostile reception as the cattlemen resent the influx of "nesters" and are determined to drive them out. Mace Liscomb and his brother Orv plan not only to drive out the homesteaders, but to also double cross the cattlemen and gain exclusive titles to the range lands for themselves. Stony and his pals eventually show the honest cattlemen that there is room for the settlers and that both are fighting a common enemy. Written by Les Adams

Romeo in Rhythm

1940 • 10 min • United States of America

This cartoon is by Rudy Ising, and is the last of a long line of black animal musicals done at MGM in the late 30s and early 40s.

The Tale of the Silly Little Mouse

1940 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A mouse sings a lullaby to her baby. Since he doesn't want to fall asleep, she turns to her neighbors for help.

The Riveter

1940 • 8 min • United States of America

Donald is a riveter who has trouble with the riveting gun, heights, and the foreman, Pete. Pete chases him throughout the construction site, causing the building to collapse. Donald runs away while Pete is trapped in cement, holding a water hose in the pose of a statue.

Maboroshijō daiichiwa Hida no uzushio

1940 • 39 min • Japan

Mt. Norikura's natural fortress, the phantom castle. A white-clad iron mask, offering prayers to the eerie triple-faced deity of the Sennjogadake Rocks - the lord of the phantom castle, scheming to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate that destroyed his lord. Sent by the shogunate to infiltrate Hida, Kigurumi Tsukinosuke's cover is blown... (Existing version. Please excuse any deterioration in image quality due to original conditions.)

Circus Today

1940 • 9 min • United States of America

A barker guides us through a sideshow, a menagerie, and on to the big top, for a series of typical Avery gags. For example, the trapeze artists, the Flying Cadenzas, literally fly; the lion puts his head in the tamer's mouth; and the human cannonball flies around the world.

Goofy's Glider

1940 • 8 min • United States of America

Yet another sport is made 'easy' for us by Goofy's demonstration how- never, ever, to try anything for real, least of all with a glider-flying machine he launches in ways that would kill anything but a cartoon character, such as a giant catapult and even a canon. Meanwhile Goofy proves totally incapable to control any of its movements in the air, let alone the 'landing' which is too messy even for a bombshell.

Lone Star Raiders

1940 • 57 min • United States of America

Yet another fast-paced western featuring the "Three Mesqueteers," pulp writer William Colt McDonald's trio of sagebrush heroes, Lone Star Raiders finds Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Tucson Smith (Bob Steele) and Lullaby Joslin (Rufe Davis) defending elderly rancher "Granny" Phelps (Sarah Padden) from greedy neighbor Henry Martin (George Douglas).

Sniffles Takes a Trip

1940 • 8 min • United States of America

Sniffles the mouse is in the country for a restful vacation of fresh air, enjoyment of nature, and peace and quiet.

Dark Streets of Cairo

1940 • 59 min • United States of America

A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.

Bowery Boy

1940 • 53 min • United States of America

Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in moving Sock's kid brother to a hospital, because Sock blames hospitals for his mother's death. Sock helps racketeer J.R. Mason sell food to the clinic, unaware that Mason sells cheap and often tainted food. When a number of patients, including Sock's brother, become ill from food poisoning, Sock is kidnapped by Mason to keep him silent. Dr. O'Hara must find a way to rescue Sock and stop Mason's contamination of hospital food supplies.

Health in War

1940 • 13 min • United Kingdom

The organisation of medical services in Britain during the Second World War.

Squadron 992

1940 • 26 min

Shows how the RAF's barrage balloon squadron are trained, and then on the job.

The Return of Wild Bill

1940 • 60 min • United States of America

When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill Saunders who arrives to find his father shot by Matt's brother. When the brother is killed in his fight with Bill, Matt sends two fake Deputies to arrest Bill whom he then plans to hang. But Matt's sister, attracted to Bill, overhears the plan and rides for help.

Window Cleaners

1940 • 8 min • United States of America

Donald is washing windows on a high-rise; Pluto is his assistant, hauling the rope for the platform and refilling buckets but mostly sleeping. And when things are finally going well, Donald makes the mistake of tormenting a bee.

Legion of the Lawless

1940 • 59 min • United States of America

Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.

Stage to Chino

1940 • 59 min • United States of America

To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.

Double or Nothing

1940 • 18 min • United States of America

In this Broadway Brevities short, a stunt double is hit on the head and imagines himself in a series of movie scenes with doubles for various stars.

Pals of the Silver Sage

1940 • 52 min • United States of America

Six-year-old Sugar Grey has inherited a ranch, which she will lose to her cousin Jeff Grey if a certain number of cattle aren't delivered on time.

Roll Wagons Roll

1940 • 56 min • United States of America

The Army sends Tex Masters to find out who is supplying Indians with military guns.

Elmer's Candid Camera

1940 • 8 min • United States of America

Elmer takes up wildlife photography but finds his subject, a rabbit, much too rascally.

The Heckler

1940 • 20 min • United States of America

An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.