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Northwest Passage (1940) – Western film telling a partly fictionalized version of the real-life St. Francis Raid by Rogers' Rangers, led by Robert Rogers [24] Parole Fixer (1940) – action drama crime film based on the 1938 book called Persons in Hiding, an exposé of corruption within the American parole system [25]
Pay or Die (1960) – biographical crime film about the career of New York City police officer Joseph Petrosino, a pioneer in the fight against organized crime in America [23] Pretty Boy Floyd (1960) – biographical crime drama film based on the career of the notorious 1930s outlaw Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd [24]
A list of American films released in 1940. American film production was concentrated in Hollywood and was dominated by the eight Major film studios MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, RKO, Columbia, Universal and United Artists. Other significant production and distribution companies included Republic, Monogram and PRC.
This Above All (film) This Was Paris; Timbuktu (1959 film) The Time Machine (1960 film) Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision; Timestalker; To Have and Have Not (film) Tora! Tora! Tora! The Train (1973 film) The Trapp Family in America
Gaby (film) Gadar: Ek Prem Katha; Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life; The Gandhi Murder; Gangs of Wasseypur; Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1; Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 2; Gangster Squad (film) The Garden of Evening Mists (film) The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (film) Gateway to Peace; Germany, Pale Mother; Giant (1956 film) Gigolo (1951 film) Girls in ...
Similar to spy films, the heist or caper film included worldly settings and hi-tech gadgets, as in the original Ocean's Eleven (1960), Topkapi (1964) or The Thomas Crown Affair (1968). The spaghetti westerns (made in Italy and Spain), were typified by Clint Eastwood films, such as For a Few Dollars More (1965) or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ...
Rear projection in color remained out of reach until Paramount introduced a new projection system in the 1940s. New matte techniques, modified for use with color, were for the first time used in the British film The Thief of Bagdad (1940). However, the high cost of color production in the 1940s meant most films were black and white. [1]
Alias the Deacon (1940 film) Alimony (1949 film) Alive in the Deep; All About Hash; All by Myself (film) All Gummed Up; All My Sons (film) All the King's Men (1949 film) All the World's a Stooge; All This, and Heaven Too; All-American Co-ed; Allergic to Love; Allotment Wives; Almost Married (1942 film) Aloma of the South Seas (1941 film) Along ...