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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] Pastor Hall (1940) – British drama film based on the true story of the German pastor Martin Niemöller who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticizing the Nazi Party [26]
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]
James Stewart in Winning Your Wings (1942). During World War II and immediately after it, in addition to the many private films created to help the war effort, many Allied countries had governmental or semi-governmental agencies commission propaganda and training films for home and foreign consumption.
Pride and Prejudice starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier.. 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.
Siege by Julien Bryan. Siege is a 1940 documentary short about the Siege of Warsaw by the Wehrmacht at the start of World War II.It was shot by Julien Bryan, a Pennsylvanian photographer and cameraman who later established the International Film Foundation.
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 remake.
Kampf um Norwegen – Feldzug 1940: Martin Rikli documentary Battle for Norway - 1940 campaign; propaganda film about the Norwegian Campaign: Kanarienvögel: Wolfram Junghans, Ulrich K.T. Schultz: Karikatur 1 : Louis Steel: animation Kora Terry: Georg Jacoby: A Man Astray: Herbert Selpin: Hans Albers, Charlotte Thiele, Hilde Weissner: Adventure ...
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 Harrison, Margaret Lockwood ...