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2. 1940s in film - Wikipedia

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   Years in film. Thousands of full-length films were produced during the decade of the 1940s. The great actor Humphrey Bogart made his most memorable films in this decade. Frank Capra 's masterpiece It's a Wonderful Life and Orson Welles 's masterpiece Citizen Kane were released. Citizen Kane made use of matte paintings, miniatures and optical ...

3. Rebecca (1940 film) - Wikipedia

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   Rebecca. (1940 film) Rebecca is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was Hitchcock's first American project, and his first film under contract with producer David O. Selznick. The screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison, and adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan, were based ...

4. Pride and Prejudice (1940 film) - Wikipedia

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   Pride and Prejudice is a 1940 American film adaptation of Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier.Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, the screenplay was written by Aldous Huxley and Jane Murfin, adapted specifically from the stage adaptation by Helen Jerome, in addition to Jane Austen's novel.

5. The Sea Hawk (1940 film) - Wikipedia

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   The Sea Hawk. (1940 film) The Sea Hawk is a 1940 American adventure film from Warner Bros. that stars Errol Flynn as an English privateer who defends his nation's interests on the eve of the launch of the Spanish Armada. The film was the tenth collaboration between Flynn and director Michael Curtiz. Its screenplay was written by Howard Koch and ...

6. List of American films of 1940 - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Stranger on the Third Floor - Wikipedia

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   Country. United States. Language. English. Budget. $171,200 (estimated) Stranger on the Third Floor is a 1940 American film noir directed by Boris Ingster and starring Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, and Charles Waldron, and featuring Elisha Cook Jr. It was written by Frank Partos. Modern research has shown that Nathanael West ...

8. Fantasia (1940 film) - Wikipedia

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   Box office. $76.4–$83.3 million (United States and Canada) [4][5] Fantasia is a 1940 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions, with story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer and production supervision by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen. It consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical ...

9. Gaslight (1940 film) - Wikipedia

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   Gaslight (released in the United States as Angel Street) is a 1940 British psychological thriller directed by Thorold Dickinson starring Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard, and features Frank Pettingell. The film adheres more closely to the original play upon which it is based – Patrick Hamilton 's Gas Light (1938) – than does the 1944 MGM ...