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During the American Civil War a Confederate officer who is also a Captain in the Union Cavalry is keeping Federal troops in the Colorado Territory from reinforcing their armies in the East by forming an alliance of secessionists, outlaws, and opportunists as well as arming hostile Indians.
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.
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 ...
Alfred Hitchcock made his American debut with the film Rebecca, and made many classics throughout the 1940s. The most successful film of the decade was Samuel Goldwyn's The Best Years of Our Lives; the film was directed by William Wyler, and starred Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, and Harold Russell.
The movie was retitled In Old Oklahoma and filming was to start 15 June 1943. Martha Scott was signed for the female lead, which was seen as a coup for Republic because she was associated with prestigious films such as Our Town (1940). [7] The film was allocated a bigger budget than usual for a Republic Pictures film. [8]
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
A list of horror films released in the 1940s. After the success of Son of Frankenstein (1939), Universal horror caught a second wind and horror films continued to be produced at a feverish pace into the mid-1940s. [1] The early 1940s saw the debut of Lon Chaney Jr. and "The Wolf Man", both of which
The Lady in Question is a 1940 American comedy-drama romance film directed by Charles Vidor and starring Brian Aherne, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. [1] It is a remake of the 1937 French film Gribouille. [1] This was the first of five films in which Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth appeared together, most famously in their second film, Gilda (1946).