"My Favorite Wife" is a screwball comedy about a woman who returns home after seven years of being shipwrecked on a remote Pacific island, only to find that her husband has declared her legally dead and remarried to another woman. Cary Grant and Irene Dunne have excellent comedy [..]
The Letter (1940)
Bette Davis stars as a woman accused of murder in "The Letter." Director William Wyler ("Wuthering Heights" 1939) does an excellent job at the helm of this melodrama, keeping the film consistently engrossing for the 95 minute running time. The screenplay was written by Howard [..]
Go West (1940)
"Go West" is a western comedy film featuring the burlesque-style humor of the Marx Brothers. The story has Groucho, Harpo, and Chico Marx headed to the American west hoping to make their fortune panning for gold. Complications arise, leading to some comedy and hilarity. [..]
Strange Cargo (1940)
"Strange Cargo" is a melodrama film where Clark Gable plays an escaped prisoner from a penal colony who gets into all sorts of trouble with others of the criminal element, including cafe singer Joan Crawford. Director Frank Borzage ("A Farewell to Arms" 1932) does an excellent job of [..]
Christmas in July (1940)
"Christmas in July" is a classic screwball comedy about an office worker who thinks he has won $25,000 dollars in a national slogan contest for a coffee company, due to a fake telegram placed on his desk by co-workers. To everyone's surprise, the company owner also falls for [..]
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Errol Flynn does his usual swashbuckling routine in the Warner Bros. action-adventure film "The Sea Hawk." With lavish production by Hal B. Wallis, expert direction by Michael Curtiz ("Angels with Dirty Faces" 1938), and a great screenplay by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller, this movie [..]
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
"The Philadelphia Story" is a top rate romantic comedy that also served as a vehicle for Katherine Hepburn to return to the top of the box office after several years of a career slump. The witty screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart, based on the 1939 play [..]
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
"Broadway Melody of 1940" is a classic MGM movie musical starring Fred Astaire and George Murphy as a dance team down on their luck and unemployed. A Broadway producer (Frank Morgan) decides to hire Astaire to dance with Eleanor Powell, but a mix-up sends Murphy to be her [..]
Music in My Heart (1940)
A musical vehicle for Tony Martin. A showcase for cinematic beauty Rita Hayworth. A light and breezy Depression Era comedy. All are accurate descriptions of the romantic musical "Music in My Heart." Director Joseph Santley ("The Family Next Door" 1939) put together a pleasant film with high quality [..]
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
"Foreign Correspondent" is an exciting spy thriller from the Master of Suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of an American reporter sent to Europe in the years before the U. S. involvement in World War II. Joel McCrea [..]