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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.
Thousands of full-length films were produced during the decade of the 1940s. The actor Humphrey Bogart made his most renowned films in this decade. Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life and Orson Welles's Citizen Kane were released. Citizen Kane made use of matte paintings, miniatures and optical printing techniques. [1] The film noir genre was ...
AFI defines an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films (films of 40 minutes or more) whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work."
Cast Country Notes 1940: The Bank Dick: Edward F. Cline: W. C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel: United States: Crime comedy [1] The Fatal Hour: William Nigh: Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Marjorie Reynolds: United States [2] The House Across the Bay: Archie Mayo: George Raft, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Nolan: United States [3] 1941: High Sierra ...
Cast Country Subgenre/Notes 1940: 20 Mule Team: Richard Thorpe: Wallace Beery, Anne Baxter, Leo Carrillo: United States: mining Western Adventures of Red Ryder: William Witney: Don "Red" Barry, Noah Beery Sr. Red Ryder serial Western Arizona: Wesley Ruggles: Jean Arthur, William Holden: traditional Western Bad Man from Red Butte: Ray Taylor
Cast Country Subgenre/notes 1940: Before I Hang: Nick Grinde: Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett: United States [1] Foreign Correspondent: Alfred Hitchcock: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day: United States [2] Gaslight: Thorold Dickinson: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell: United Kingdom [3] Night Train to Munich: Carol Reed: Rex ...
The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney films Pinocchio and Fantasia. Top-grossing films (U.S.) [ edit ]
List of Portuguese films of the 1940s; List of Punjabi films of the 1940s; S. List of South Korean films of 1948–1959; List of Soviet films of the 1940s;