List of Universal Pictures films (1940–1949)
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1. The Green Hornet (1940)
Approved | 258 min | Adventure, Crime, Family
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor | Stars: Gordon Jones, Wade Boteler, Keye Luke, Anne Nagel
Votes: 714
2. The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Director: Joe May | Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, John Sutton
Votes: 5,296
3. West of Carson City (1940)
Approved | 56 min | Drama, Western
When a gold strike turns a ghost town into a boom town, Gorman arrives to open his crooked gambling hall and Judge Harkins arrives to bring law and order. Jim Bannister is aiding the Judge ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, Peggy Moran
Votes: 39
4. Chip of the Flying U (1939)
Passed | 55 min | Western
Duncan is secretly shipping explosives by ship and needs the Flying U ranch which has shore access. Chip breaks up his murder and robbery attempts and eventually captures two of his ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, Doris Weston
Votes: 52
5. Green Hell (1940)
Passed | 87 min | Adventure, Romance
In the jungles of the Amazon, a group of Western adventurers and two local native guides try to locate a lost treasure buried beneath an ancient Incan city.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Bennett, John Howard, George Sanders
Votes: 405
6. Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love! (1940)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Johnny Sandham (Tom Brown), a traveling salesman for a department store, agrees, under duress after his truck forced her roadster of the road, to take "Kelly" Archer (Peggy Moran), a ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Tom Brown, Peggy Moran, Allen Jenkins, Donald Meek
Votes: 31
7. Danger on Wheels (1940)
Approved | 61 min | Sport, Thriller
During a test a race car using an experimental oil-fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. Lucky Taylor, a stunt driver, is initially blamed for the accident, but is later cleared. He ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Peggy Moran, Vinton Hayworth
Votes: 80
8. Honeymoon Deferred (1940)
Approved | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir
Detective Adam Farradene postpones his honeymoon with wife Janet to investigate a murder. Janet puts aside her frustration to lend a hand, despite Adam's insistence on working alone.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Margaret Lindsay, Elisabeth Risdon, Chick Chandler
Votes: 54
9. Framed (1940)
60 min | Drama
A young newspaper reporter finds himself framed for murder.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Frank Albertson, Constance Moore, Jerome Cowan, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 22
10. Boss of Bullion City (1940)
Approved | 61 min | Western
A lawman sets out to disrupt the operations of a crooked town boss.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Maria Montez
Votes: 65
11. Double Alibi (1940)
Approved | 60 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Wayne Morris, Margaret Lindsay, William Gargan, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 63
12. Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
Approved | 195 min | Action, Adventure, Family
A ravaging plague has struck the Earth threatening no less than global extinction. This alien disease is believed to be the evil spawn of Ming, the merciless Emperor of Planet Mongo. The world's only hope now rests with Flash Gordon.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton, Anne Gwynne
Votes: 1,499
13. Zanzibar (1940)
Approved | 70 min | Adventure
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Lola Lane, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli, Tom Fadden
Votes: 44
14. Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me (1940)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery
Woodbury's fashionable gown-salon on Fifth Avenue is about to take bankruptcy. An unemployed showgirl, Connie Curtiss, tell's the store's press agent, Tommy Shaw, that more girls would buy ... See full summary »
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Tom Brown, Constance Moore, Richard Carle, Anne Nagel
Votes: 27
15. My Little Chickadee (1940)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Western
After a scandal runs a gold-digger out of town, she meets a con artist and becomes embroiled in a string of petty deceits.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran
Votes: 3,061
16. It's a Date (1940)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 669
17. Half a Sinner (1940)
Passed | 59 min | Adventure, Comedy, Mystery
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off ... See full summary »
Director: Al Christie | Stars: Heather Angel, John 'Dusty' King, Constance Collier, Walter Catlett
Votes: 416
18. Riders of Pasco Basin (1940)
Approved | 56 min | Drama, Music, Western
A newspaper editor stumbles upon an irrigation project swindle.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, Frances Robinson
Votes: 47
19. Black Friday (1940)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel
Votes: 2,877
20. The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Thriller
Based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this classic film follows a family feud between two brothers and an ancient curse that haunts them.
Director: Joe May | Stars: George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, Dick Foran
Votes: 1,516
21. Enemy Agent (1940)
Approved | 64 min | Adventure, Mystery
A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Richard Cromwell, Helen Vinson, Robert Armstrong, Marjorie Reynolds
Votes: 70
22. If I Had My Way (1940)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
When a fellow bridge builder is killed in an accident, two of his co-workers take his now-orphaned daughter to New York to be adopted by relatives.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean, Charles Winninger, El Brendel
Votes: 211
23. Ski Patrol (1940)
64 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In 1939 a Finnish reserve unit defends the border and their town in the valley below from Russian invaders who are excavating an explosive-laden tunnel under their mountaintop encampment.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Philip Dorn, Luli Deste, Stanley Fields, Samuel S. Hinds
Votes: 217
24. Alias the Deacon (1940)
Approved | 74 min | Adventure, Comedy
A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Bob Burns, Mischa Auer, Peggy Moran, Dennis O'Keefe
Votes: 33
25. Sandy Is a Lady (1940)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy
It is important to Joe and Mary Phillips and their baby Sandy that Joe's employer, the P. J. Barnett Company, get the contract to build Maylor bridge, because it means a pay raise for Joe. ... See full synopsis »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Baby Sandy, Billy Lenhart, Kenneth Brown, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 15
26. Hot Steel (1940)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Peggy Moran, Donald Briggs
Votes: 29
27. La Conga Nights (1940)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Music
Henry I. Dibble, Jr. (Hugh Herbert)is a dizzy millionaire playboy who loves rhumba music. Thorns in his side are his four maiden sisters Faith (Hugh Herbert), Hope (Hugh Herbert), Charity (... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Hugh Herbert, Dennis O'Keefe, Constance Moore, Ferike Boros
Votes: 18
28. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
When Public Enemy No. 3 Sonny McGann meets composer Bob Gunther, he gets the idea of having Bob write music to a poem he has written about his long-lost sweetheart Sadie McGlonsky. ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Jessie Ralph, Johnny Downs, Peggy Moran
Votes: 36
29. Bad Man from Red Butte (1940)
Approved | 58 min | Western
A cowboy arrives in a town, and is immediately mistaken for his twin brother who is wanted for murder
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, Anne Gwynne
Votes: 112
30. Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! (1940)
Passed | 59 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. However, he changes his mind when he falls in love with another woman--but he can't stop ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Donald Woods, Kathryn Adams, Wallace Ford, Mona Barrie
Votes: 42
31. Winners of the West (1940)
Approved | 247 min | Western
Hartford is building a railroad heading west and King Carter is out to stop him from going through his town by goading the Indians into attacking the railroad crew. The head of the crew is ... See full summary »
Directors: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor | Stars: Dick Foran, Anne Nagel, Tom Fadden, James Craig
Votes: 80
32. Private Affairs (1940)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Romance
Amos Bullerton, son of an old Boston family, has chosen for twenty years to remain a "black sheep" rather than submit to the dictation of his staid family. Jane Bullerton, his daughter, ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Nancy Kelly, Robert Cummings, Hugh Herbert, Roland Young
Votes: 63
33. Black Diamonds (1940)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A reporter on a visit to his hometown hears of dangerous conditions at the local coal mine, and proceeds to investigate.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Kathryn Adams, Paul Fix
Votes: 43
34. Son of Roaring Dan (1940)
Approved | 63 min | Drama, Music, Western
One of Thorndyke's men has murdered a man and Eris is the only witness. Jim Reardon breaks up Thorndyke's first attempt to kidnap Eris but the second attempt is successful, Jim now not only... See full summary »
Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Jean Brooks
Votes: 35
35. You're Not So Tough (1940)
Approved | 65 min | Drama
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters ... See full summary »
Director: Joe May | Stars: The Dead End Kids, Nan Grey, Rosina Galli, Henry Armetta
Votes: 58
36. South to Karanga (1940)
59 min | Action, Drama
Hearing of a native uprising at the African Copper Mines at Karanga, manager Edmund Daniels and American counsel Jeff Worthing catch an arms-and-ammunition bearing train. Other passengers ... See full summary »
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Charles Bickford, James Craig, Luli Deste, John Sutton
Votes: 25
37. The Boys from Syracuse (1940)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Musical
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the story concerns the efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who,... See full summary »
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Allan Jones, Irene Hervey, Martha Raye, Joe Penner
Votes: 159
38. When the Daltons Rode (1940)
Approved | 81 min | Western
Fictionalized story of how the Dalton brothers were wronged by a crooked development company and became outlaws when the corrupt local courts offered them no justice.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Randolph Scott, Kay Francis, Brian Donlevy, George Bancroft
Votes: 907
39. Argentine Nights (1940)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Music
An all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: The Ritz Brothers, Al Ritz, Harry Ritz, Jimmy Ritz
Votes: 67
40. Hired Wife (1940)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
CEO Stephen marries his secretary Kendal in name only, an arrangement made to protect his finances from an attempt at a hostile business takeover. Once the threat is neutralized, he asks Kendal for a divorce but she refuses.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Virginia Bruce, Robert Benchley
Votes: 461
41. The Leather Pushers (1940)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy
A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle prize. He later regrets his actions, however, when the boxer becomes an honest champion.
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Astrid Allwyn, Douglas Fowley
Votes: 33
42. Ragtime Cowboy Joe (1940)
Passed | 68 min | Western
When Sam Osborne, owner of the Circle S Ranch, is killed by cattle rustler Bo Gillman, the outlaw is advised by crooked attorney Virgil Parker to report the "mysterious" killing to ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Dick Curtis
Votes: 39
43. The Mummy's Hand (1940)
Approved | 67 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Archaeologists defile the tomb of mummified Kharis, who was buried alive for falling in love with an Egyptian princess.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, Wallace Ford, Eduardo Ciannelli
Votes: 4,707
44. Spring Parade (1940)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A Hungarian woman whose fortune predicts that she will marry may find it coming true when she meets an army drummer.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, Mischa Auer, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 383
45. Diamond Frontier (1940)
Approved | 73 min | Adventure, Crime, Romance
Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Victor McLaglen, John Loder, Anne Nagel, Cecil Kellaway
Votes: 31
46. Junior G-Men (1940)
Approved | 240 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A gang of street kids work with the FBI in their attempt to find and rescue their leader's father, a scientist who has been kidnapped by a terrorist group.
Directors: Ford Beebe, John Rawlins | Stars: Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly
Votes: 113
47. A Little Bit of Heaven (1940)
Passed | 87 min | Musical
A 12-year-old singing sensation loses her voice when her parents refuse to give in to her harebrained schemes.
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Gloria Jean, Robert Stack, Hugh Herbert, C. Aubrey Smith
Votes: 44
48. Slightly Tempted (1940)
65 min | Comedy
A con man tries to sell phony stocks to unwary investors.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Hugh Herbert, Peggy Moran, Johnny Downs, Elisabeth Risdon
Votes: 22
49. Seven Sinners (1940)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Albert Dekker, Broderick Crawford
Votes: 1,658
50. I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now (1940)
Approved | 64 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
Tod Lowell (Dennis O'Keefe)),the quarterback of the Southern State football team has been dating Betty Gilbert (Constance Moore), a nightclub singer. But his mother, Mrs. Henry Lowell ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Constance Moore, Helen Parrish, Lewis Howard
Votes: 30
51. The Devil's Pipeline (1940)
Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A secretary sends a coded plea for help in her monthly report; two detectives investigate and find out that men are jailed on phony charges, forced to work in oil fields and then murdered if they try to escape.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, John Eldredge, Jean Brooks
Votes: 41
52. Sandy Gets Her Man (1940)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy
Fireman Bill Carey and police officer Tom Gerrity are rivals for the hand of Nan Clark. Each hopes to marry Nan so that her father, Councilman Clark, the city finance commissioner, will ... See full synopsis »
Directors: Otis Garrett, Paul Gerard Smith | Stars: Baby Sandy, Stuart Erwin, Una Merkel, Edgar Kennedy
Votes: 51
53. One Night in the Tropics (1940)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Jim "Lucky" Moore (Allan Jones), an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve (Robert Cummings): a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if ... See full summary »
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Robert Cummings, Bud Abbott
Votes: 1,858
54. Meet the Wildcat (1940)
Approved | 66 min | Mystery
Magazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico's National Museum when she sees Brod Williams steal a painting from its frame. Convinced that Brod is the notorious art thief ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Joseph Schildkraut, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 85
55. Law and Order (1940)
Approved | 57 min | Western
Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between the townspeople and Poe Daggett and his gang. He takes the job of town Marshal and soon ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, James Craig
Votes: 36
56. The Bank Dick (1940)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy
Henpecked Egbert Sousé has comic adventures as a substitute film director and unlikely bank guard.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Evelyn Del Rio
Votes: 7,804
57. Dark Streets of Cairo (1940)
Approved | 59 min | Adventure, Mystery
Jewel smugglers in Cairo try to pin their crimes on a kidnapped baron.
Director: László Kardos | Stars: Sigrid Gurie, Ralph Byrd, Eddie Quillan, George Zucco
Votes: 68
58. Pony Post (1940)
Passed | 59 min | Western
Cal Sheridan (Johnny Mack Brown) accompanies Major Goodwin (Tom Chatteron) and his daughter, Alice (Dorothy Short), to the Ruby Valley express station, where dissolute operator Griff Atkins... See full summary »
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Dorothy Short
Votes: 57
59. Margie (1940)
Approved | 59 min | Comedy
A struggling husband-wife songwriting team try to sell a radio program in the midst of crooked producers, song-stealing friends, repo men, and an overly amorous sponsor.
Directors: Otis Garrett, Paul Gerard Smith | Stars: Tom Brown, Nan Grey, Mischa Auer, Joy Hodges
Votes: 26
60. Trail of the Vigilantes (1940)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Western
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Franchot Tone, Warren William, Broderick Crawford, Andy Devine
Votes: 113
61. Give Us Wings (1940)
Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly
Votes: 63
62. San Francisco Docks (1940)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Barmaid in seedy docks does better detective work than the police to get her beau off a murder accusation, helped by a good priest who proves to be a good fighter for the truth.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Irene Hervey, Barry Fitzgerald, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 34
63. The Invisible Woman (1940)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
An attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charles Ruggles
Votes: 3,357
64. Lucky Devils (1941)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A triad of rival news journalist go to great lengths in sabotaging each other, but come together as heroes when they're unwittingly embroiled in a sinister foreign intelligence plot to blow up a dam.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Dorothy Lovett, Janet Shaw
Votes: 27
65. Where Did You Get That Girl? (1941)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Music
Through a mix-up, the members of a band get thrown in jail as robbery suspects.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Leon Errol, Helen Parrish, Charles Lang, Eddie Quillan
Votes: 28
66. The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940)
Approved | 293 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A wealthy publisher uses a disguise and calls himself the Green Hornet to fight crime in his city.
Directors: Ford Beebe, John Rawlins | Stars: Warren Hull, Wade Boteler, Anne Nagel, Keye Luke
Votes: 426
67. Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga (1941)
Approved | 62 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
The brash, opinionated owner of a nightclub manages to drive everybody crazy on a boat trip to Havana.
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Charles Lang, Leon Errol, Helen Parrish, Lupe Velez
Votes: 52
68. Buck Privates (1941)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, War
Two sidewalk salesman enlist in the army in order to avoid jail, only to find that their drill instructor is the police officer who tried having them imprisoned.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lee Bowman, Jane Frazee
Votes: 4,732 | Gross: $4.00M
69. Back Street (1941)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Romance
Five years after meeting and falling in love with a banker, a willful shop girl decides to become his mistress upon learning he has since gotten married and had a son.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson, Frank McHugh
Votes: 699
70. Meet the Chump (1941)
60 min | Comedy
A comedy about a man who tries to avoid giving up the $10,000,000 trust he's been administering so well that there's hardly any money left.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Hugh Herbert, Lewis Howard, Jean Brooks, Anne Nagel
Votes: 25
71. Nice Girl? (1941)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A young girl finds herself attracted to one of her father's business partners.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Walter Brennan, Robert Stack
Votes: 386
72. Mr. Dynamite (1941)
63 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Irene Hervey, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 80
73. Double Date (1941)
Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Family
Penny Kirkland's (Peggy Moran) Aunt Elsie (Una Merkel) and Jerry Bladwin's (Rand Brooks) widower father Roger Baldwin (Edmund Lowe) are attracted to each other. Preventing the pending ... See full summary »
Director: Glenn Tryon | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Una Merkel, Peggy Moran, Rand Brooks
Votes: 41
74. Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (1941)
Approved | 61 min | Western
A young mining engineer sets out to catch the killers of both his brother and a beautiful young girl's father.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Kathryn Adams
Votes: 86
75. The Man Who Lost Himself (1941)
72 min | Comedy
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some good in his new role.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Brian Aherne, Kay Francis, Henry Stephenson, S.Z. Sakall
Votes: 120
76. Horror Island (1941)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A down-on-his-luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.
Director: George Waggner | Stars: Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo, Peggy Moran, Fuzzy Knight
Votes: 989
77. Man Made Monster (1941)
Passed | 59 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
Director: George Waggner | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Nagel, Frank Albertson
Votes: 1,879
78. Sky Raiders (1941)
Passed | 227 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Enemy spies try to steal a new fighter plane.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor | Stars: Donald Woods, Billy Halop, Robert Armstrong, Eduardo Ciannelli
Votes: 212
79. The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
How a liberated teacher brought women's suffrage to Wyoming in 1869.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Loretta Young, Robert Preston, Edward Arnold, Frank Craven
Votes: 167
80. Mutiny in the Arctic (1941)
Passed | 64 min | Adventure, Drama
Arctic explorers (Richard Arlen, Anne Nagel, Andy Devine) partner with a sea captain and his ship, to locate a radium deposit. However, they are betrayed by the ship's crew and must fight to survive the deadly polar environment.
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Anne Nagel, Addison Richards
Votes: 42
81. Model Wife (1941)
78 min | Comedy
Fred and Joan are a married couple working at the Benson's business. Mrs JJ Benson has a strict policy against married employees, so they keep it a secret while they save every penny as ... See full summary »
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Charles Ruggles, Lee Bowman
Votes: 111
82. The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
Passed | 79 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Mischa Auer
Votes: 1,302
83. The Black Cat (1941)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Mystery
Elderly Henrietta Winslow lives in an isolated mansion with her housekeeper and beloved cats. As her health fails, her greedy relatives gather in anticipation of her death.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford, Bela Lugosi
Votes: 2,082
84. In the Navy (1941)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy
Russ Raymond, America's number one crooner, disappears and joins the Navy under the name Tommy Halstead. Dorothy Roberts, a magazine journalist, is intent on finding out what happened to ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Powell, Claire Dodd
Votes: 3,213
85. Men of the Timberland (1941)
Approved | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Tim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast quantity of timber from land owned by Kay Handley, rich débutante. When Dick O'Hara, forestry ... See full summary »
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Linda Hayes, Francis McDonald
Votes: 39
86. Bachelor Daddy (1941)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Romance
The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Baby Sandy, Edward Everett Horton, Donald Woods, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 48
87. Tight Shoes (1941)
68 min | Comedy
A crook with big feet buys shoes that are too tight, then decides to use the shoe store as a front for illegal gambling.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: John Howard, Binnie Barnes, Broderick Crawford, Anne Gwynne
Votes: 41
88. Law of the Range (1941)
Approved | 59 min | Western
The Wolverine Kid kills a man and it looks like Steve Howard did it. But Steve's father recognizes the bullet as coming from the gun owned by the Kid. The Kid and Steve each have one of the... See full summary »
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Riley Hill
Votes: 44
89. San Antonio Rose (1941)
63 min | Musical
A crooked night club owner tries to eliminate the competition. Introduces 'The Hut Sut Song.'
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Jane Frazee, Robert Paige, Eve Arden, Lon Chaney Jr.
Votes: 68
90. Hit the Road (1941)
Approved | 61 min | Drama
Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war.
Director: Joe May | Stars: Gladys George, Barton MacLane, Billy Halop, Huntz Hall
Votes: 64
91. Hello, Sucker (1941)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Comedy
A young couple buy a bankrupt vaudeville booking agency, and try to make it a success.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Hugh Herbert, Tom Brown, Peggy Moran, Lewis Howard
Votes: 23
92. Riders of Death Valley (1941)
Passed | 283 min | Western
This star-laden western serial has our able heroes escaping various perils devised by the evil Wolfe Reade and his pack of outlaws, who wish to lay claim to a fabled lost mine.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor | Stars: Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo, Buck Jones, Charles Bickford
Votes: 116
93. Raiders of the Desert (1941)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two American adventurers jump ship in a Middle Eastern port, and wind up in the middle of a civil war.
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Linda Hayes, Maria Montez
Votes: 55
94. Rawhide Rangers (1941)
Passed | 56 min | Western
Blackie's lawless gang is running wild. When Rangers Brand Calhoun and his brother investigate, the brother is killed. Brand quits the Rangers and becomes an outlaw. When he beats Blackie's... See full summary »
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Kathryn Adams, Nell O'Day
Votes: 91
95. Cracked Nuts (1941)
Passed | 61 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men who are trying to sell a fake "robot."
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Una Merkel, Mischa Auer, William Frawley
Votes: 86
96. Too Many Blondes (1941)
60 min | Comedy, Musical
A man whose girlfriend turned him down and married another man tries to break up their marriage.
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Rudy Vallee, Helen Parrish, Lon Chaney Jr., Jerome Cowan
Votes: 33
97. Hold That Ghost (1941)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
After inheriting a fortune from a gangster, two dim-witted service station attendants find themselves stranded in a haunted house.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Richard Carlson, Joan Davis
Votes: 4,266
98. A Dangerous Game (1941)
Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital, where the patients range from slightly daffy to criminally ... See full summary »
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Jean Brooks, Edward Brophy
Votes: 64
99. This Woman Is Mine (1941)
Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A girl stows away on a ship, and the antics begins.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Franchot Tone, John Carroll, Walter Brennan, Carol Bruce
Votes: 144
100. Unfinished Business (1941)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Small town girl meets and falls for a playboy type on a train to New York. For him, the fling is over when they arrive, but she continues to carry a torch. She meets and marries his brother... See full summary »
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery, Preston Foster, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 321
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