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The Fraeon Archive · The 1940s
19391941

1940

Shadows and rain — noir's decade, wartime cinema, and some of the most enduring stories ever put on film.

The films everyone saw

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The Great Dictator

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

4.1

The Great Dictator

1940

Pinocchio

When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings the toy to life. The puppet, named Pinocchio, is not yet a human boy. He must earn the right to be real by proving that he is brave, truthful, and unselfish.

3.6

Pinocchio

1940

Rebecca

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

4.0

Rebecca

1940

Fantasia

Walt Disney's timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again.

3.7

Fantasia

1940

Waterloo Bridge

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.

3.8

Waterloo Bridge

1940

The Philadelphia Story

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

3.8

The Philadelphia Story

1940

The Shop Around the Corner

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

4.0

The Shop Around the Corner

1940

The Grapes of Wrath

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.

3.9

The Grapes of Wrath

1940

The Thief of Bagdad

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.

3.6

The Thief of Bagdad

1940

Pride and Prejudice

In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, who have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to eldest daughter Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with second-eldest Elizabeth.

3.5

Pride and Prejudice

1940

His Girl Friday

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.

3.7

His Girl Friday

1940

Foreign Correspondent

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.

3.5

Foreign Correspondent

1940

My Favorite Wife

Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.

3.5

My Favorite Wife

1940

The Mark of Zorro

In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On one hand, he plays the useless fop, while on the other, he is the masked avenger Zorro.

3.6

The Mark of Zorro

1940

The Ghost Breakers

After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.

3.3

The Ghost Breakers

1940

The Sea Hawk

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

3.6

The Sea Hawk

1940

Kitty Foyle

A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.

3.3

Kitty Foyle

1940

Go West

A con man heading west to search for gold teams up with a pair of scheming brothers along the way. The trio soon find themselves in the middle of a feud between two rival families and two underhanded land developers.

3.3

Go West

1940

Hidden gems of 1940loved by the few who found them

You’re Missing the Point

Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.

4.1

You’re Missing the Point

1940

You Ought to Be in Pictures

Daffy Duck convinces Porky Pig to quit the cartoon biz and try his luck in the features. Porky's adventures begin when he tries to enter the movie studio.

3.8

You Ought to Be in Pictures

1940

Cantinflas Ruletero

Cantinflas Ruletero is one of his most famous short films, where the great comedian acts as a taxi driver, making his passengers work without taking them to their destination.

3.7

Cantinflas Ruletero

1940

The Mortal Storm

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.

3.7

The Mortal Storm

1940

Remember the Night

Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.

3.7

Remember the Night

1940

A Wild Hare

While hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny who tricks and harasses him.

3.6

A Wild Hare

1940

The Letter

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

3.6

The Letter

1940

Night Train to Munich

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.

3.7

Night Train to Munich

1940

All This, and Heaven Too

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess as the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow.

3.6

All This, and Heaven Too

1940

Gaslight

Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.

3.6

Gaslight

1940

The Westerner

Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.

3.5

The Westerner

1940

Puss Gets the Boot

Jasper is given an ultimatum by his master: break one more thing and you're out. Rodent Jerry does his best to make sure that his tormentor "gets the boot".

3.5

Puss Gets the Boot

1940

The Great McGinty

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...

3.5

The Great McGinty

1940

On the page

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

Spain in fiction · Fiction

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

1940

The Power and the Glory

Anti-clericalism · Catholic Church

The Power and the Glory

Graham Greene

1940

Sonnenfinsternis

Fiction · History

Sonnenfinsternis

Arthur Koestler

1940

The Quiet American

Americans · British

The Quiet American

Graham Greene

1940

Sleeping Murder

Fiction · Jane Marple (Fictitious character)

Sleeping Murder

Agatha Christie

1940

Synthetic Men of Mars

Fiction, science fiction, general · Fiction

Synthetic Men of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

1940

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Fiction · Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Agatha Christie

1940

Death of a Salesman

flashback · literary fiction

Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller

1940

Sapphira and the slave girl

Fiction · African American families

Sapphira and the slave girl

Willa Cather

1940

Sick Heart River

Edward Leithen (Fictitious character) · Fiction

Sick Heart River

John Buchan

1940

Meḿoires de guerre

French Personal narratives · History

Meḿoires de guerre

Charles de Gaulle

1940

Frenchman's Creek

Fiction · Romance

Frenchman's Creek

Daphne du Maurier

1940

The Pat Hobby Stories

Short stories,English · Pat Hobby (Fictitious character)

The Pat Hobby Stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1940

Thurber Carnival

568 oak street · agatha

Thurber Carnival

James Thurber

1940

Native Son

African American men · African americans

Native Son

Richard Wright

1940

Dracula (Mystery Theatre (Monterey))

Children's fiction · Frankenstein (fictitious character), fiction

Dracula (Mystery Theatre (Monterey))

Bram Stoker

1940

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

American fiction (fictional works by one author) · Friendship, fiction

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

1940

The Second World War, Vol. II

World War, 1939-1945 · Military leadership

The Second World War, Vol. II

Winston S. Churchill

1940

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