The Earl of Chicago
Theatrical Release Date: 01/05/1940
Overall Rating: 1.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Thorpe
Actors: Robert Montgomery, Edward Arnold, Reginald Owen, Edmund Gwenn, E.E. Clive, Ronald Sinclair
Emergency Squad
Theatrical Release Date: 01/05/1940
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Actors: William Henry, Louise Campbell, Richard Denning, Robert Paige, Anthony Quinn, John Miljan
Legion of the Lawless
Theatrical Release Date: 01/05/1940
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Howard
Actors: George O'Brien, Virginia Vale, Herbert Heywood, Norman Willis, Hugh Sothern, William 'Billy' Benedict
Swanee River
Theatrical Release Date: 01/05/1940
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Actors: Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, Felix Bressart, Chick Chandler, Russell Hicks
Music in My Heart
Theatrical Release Date: 01/04/1940
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph Santley
Actors: Tony Martin, Rita Hayworth, Edith Fellows, Andre Kostelanetz, Alan Mowbray, Eric Blore
Broken Strings
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1940
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bernard B. Ray
Actors: Clarence Muse, Sybil Lewis, William Washington, Tommie Moore, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Pete Webster
Buzzy Rides the Range ( Western Terror )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1940
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard C. Kahn
Actors: Robert 'Buzz' Henry, Dave O'Brien, Claire Rochelle, George Morrell, George Eldredge, Frank Merlo
Men and Dust
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1940
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lee Dick
Actors: Will Geer, Storrs Haynes, Robert Porterfield, Eric Walz
Mystery in Swing
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1940
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Arthur Dreifuss
Actors: Monte Hawley, Marguerite Whitten, Tommie Moore, Edward Thompson, Buck Woods, Jess Lee Brooks
Orphans of the North
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1940
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Norman Dawn
Actors: Bob Webster, Mary Joyce, Ann Henning, Eleanor Phillips, John Pool
Remedy for Riches
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1940
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Actors: Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Lovett, Edgar Kennedy, Maude Eburne, Walter Catlett, Robert Baldwin
Son of Ingagi
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1940
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard C. Kahn
Actors: Zack Williams, Laura Bowman, Alfred Grant, Daisy Bufford, Spencer Williams, Arthur Ray
Song of Seperation, The ( To tragoudi tou horismou )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1940
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Greek
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Filopoimin Finos
Actors: Evgenia Danika, Labros Konstadaras, Linda Miranda, Maria Benipsalti, Petros Epitropakis, Mimis Moshoutis
Sunday Sinners
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1940
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Arthur Dreifuss
Actors: Earl Sydnor, Norman Astwood, Edna Mae Harris, Cristola Williams, Ernie Ransom, Alberta Perkins
Yukon Flight
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1940
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ralph Staub
Actors: James Newill, Louise Stanley, Warren Hull, William Pawley, Jack Clifford, Dave O'Brien
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Theatrical Release Date: 12/31/1939
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Dieterle
Actors: Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Maureen O'Hara, Edmond O'Brien, Alan Marshal
Plot: Frollo, Chief Justice, becomes entralled by the gypsy Esmerelda and coerces the deformed Quasimodo to capture her. After being caught by captain of the guard Phoebus, he is flogged with only Esmerelda taking pity on him. Esmerelda and Phoebus meet, and when the man winds up dead, Frollo pins the murder on Esmerelda. Quasimodo makes it his mission to save the girl from death by hanging.
Invisible Stripes
Theatrical Release Date: 12/30/1939
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Actors: George Raft, Jane Bryan, William Holden, Humphrey Bogart, Flora Robson, Moroni Olsen
Of Mice and Men
Theatrical Release Date: 12/30/1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Milestone
Actors: Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele
Plot: Based on John Steinbeck's classic novel: two drifters, gentle giant Lennie
and his friend George wander the countryside during the Great Depression,
finding themselves on a farm run by a sadistic man and his flirtatious
wife. All they want is a piece of the good life - and it always seems just
out of reach.
