List of Columbia Pictures films (1940–1949)

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1. Music in My Heart (1940)

Approved | 70 min | Musical, Romance

Rita Hayworth co-stars with famed recording artist Tony Martin in this musical comedy featuring the music of Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra. Following various comic misunderstandings, ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Tony Martin, Rita Hayworth, Edith Fellows, Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra

Votes: 621

2. The Shadow (1940)

Passed | 285 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Victor Jory, Veda Ann Borg, Roger Moore, Robert Fiske

Votes: 376

3. Cafe Hostess (1940)

Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Jo (Ann Dvorak), a "percentage girl" at the notorious Club 46, is in despair. She can see no way out of the dreary and sordid routine of entertaining customers - called drinking and dancing... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak, Douglas Fowley, Wynne Gibson

Votes: 87

4. His Girl Friday (1940)

Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart

Votes: 63,178 | Gross: $0.30M

5. The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Delia's father murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires reformed thief Michael to find killer and jewels before police suspect him.

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Warren William, Eric Blore, Joan Perry, Alan Baxter

Votes: 443

6. Convicted Woman (1940)

Approved | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Jobless Betty Andrews, although innocent, is convicted of a department store theft and, despite the best efforts of her lawyer and noted social worker Mary Ellis and a reporter, Jim Brent ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Frieda Inescort, June Lang, Lola Lane

Votes: 286

7. Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)

Approved | 67 min | Drama

Ever since the poor Pepper family - widowed Mrs. Pepper and her five children Polly, Ben, Joey, Davie and Phronsie - warmed the once cold heart of wealthy businessman J.H. King, they have ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Edith Fellows, Dorothy Anne Seese, Clarence Kolb, Dorothy Peterson

Votes: 164

8. Pioneers of the Frontier (1940)

Approved | 58 min | Western

After Brawley kills his boss Mort Saunders, he and his men take control of all the ranches in the valley. When Wild Bill arrives to help the ranchers he is thrown in jail by the crooked Sheriff.

Director: Sam Nelson | Stars: Bill Elliott, Dorothy Comingore, Dick Curtis, Dub Taylor

Votes: 39

9. Blondie on a Budget (1940)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Family

Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy

Votes: 559

10. Bullets for Rustlers (1940)

Approved | 58 min | Western

Steve Beaumont, an operative for the Cattleman's Protective Association, is assigned the difficult task of breaking up a murderous gang of rustlers led by Ed Brock and Strang. He takes ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Nelson | Stars: Charles Starrett, Lorna Gray, Bob Nolan, Sons of the Pioneers

Votes: 25

11. The Fight for Life (1940)

Approved | 69 min | Drama, History

An interne witnesses the death of a young mother in a maternity hospital delivery room. Disturbed that he might have overlooked something that could have prevented the death, he goes to a ... See full summary »

Director: Pare Lorentz | Stars: Myron McCormick, Storrs Haynes, Will Geer, Dudley Digges

Votes: 86

12. Outside the Three-Mile Limit (1940)

Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Government Agent Conway, posing as a crew member of a ship, is investigating the flood of counterfeit money that seemingly is originating for a gambling ship, moored off-shore beyond the ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Harry Carey, Sig Ruman, Eduardo Ciannelli

Votes: 16

13. Too Many Husbands (1940)

Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Romance

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas, Harry Davenport

Votes: 1,696

14. Blazing Six Shooters (1940)

Passed | 61 min | Drama, Music, Western

Karsin and Lash are after the Kenyon and Rawlins ranches where they have spotted silver ore. When Lash robs Rawlins and kills Kenyon, Jeff suspects them and makes a plan to nab the two. He ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Dick Curtis, Al Bridge

Votes: 28

15. Terry and the Pirates (1940)

Passed | 300 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Dr. Herbert Lee (John Paul Jones), an archaeologist seeking to decipher ancient Mara inscriptions, is aided by his son, Terry (William Tracy), and Terry's pal, Pat Ryan (Jeff York), and ... See full summary »

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: William Tracy, Jeff York, Joyce Bryant, Allen Jung

Votes: 167

16. The Man with Nine Lives (1940)

Approved | 74 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A medical researcher visits the deserted home of a pioneer in cryogenic science who disappeared 10 years earlier and finds him frozen in ice but still alive.

Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Boris Karloff, Roger Pryor, Jo Ann Sayers, Stanley Brown

Votes: 1,107

17. The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Romance

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Loretta Young, Ray Milland, Reginald Gardiner, Gail Patrick

Votes: 1,044

18. 21 Days Together (1940)

Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

After Larry accidentally kills his lover Wanda's estranged blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. Larry and Wanda nervously await the verdict: if the innocent suspect is found guilty then Larry will give himself up.

Director: Basil Dean | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Francis L. Sullivan

Votes: 1,276

19. The Man from Tumbleweeds (1940)

Passed | 59 min | Drama, Western

Powder Kilgore (Ray Bennett as Raphael Bennett) kills freighter Jeff Cameron (Edward LeSaint) and the latter's daughter, "Spunky" (Iris Meredith), sends for gunfighter Wild Bill Saunders (... See full summary »

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Bill Elliott, Iris Meredith, Dub Taylor, Ray Bennett

Votes: 147

20. Men Without Souls (1940)

Approved | 62 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Johnny Adams arrives in a brutal prison under an assumed name after deliberately framing himself in order to kill White, a captain of the guards, because he had beaten Johnny's father to ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Barton MacLane, John Litel, Rochelle Hudson, Glenn Ford

Votes: 83

21. Island of Doomed Men (1940)

Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Wilcox, Don Beddoe

Votes: 627

22. Escape to Glory (1940)

64 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A British ship is attacked by a German U-boat at the onset of World War II. The reactions of the frightened passengers-from a German doctor to a drunken Irishman-are chronicled in this good story.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Constance Bennett, John Halliday, Alan Baxter

Votes: 57

23. Texas Stagecoach (1940)

Approved | 60 min | Western

The Kinkaids and the Harpers both run stage lines and are friendly competitors. Appleby is after the stage line and convinces the two owners to build a spur line to the same town. Then he ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Sons of the Pioneers, Bob Nolan

Votes: 40

24. The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1940)

Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit. Lanyard, the Lone Wolf, and Jamison set out to find the real killer.

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Warren William, Eric Blore, Jean Muir, Victor Jory

Votes: 445

25. Passport to Alcatraz (1940)

60 min | Action, Adventure

George Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens who dynamited a Detroit munitions plant. The trail takes him to a customs inspector who is ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Noah Beery Jr., Cecilia Callejo, Maxie Rosenbloom

Votes: 31

26. Babies for Sale (1940)

Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama

A newsman exposes a doctor running an adoption ring from a home for expectant mothers.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Glenn Ford, Miles Mander, Joe De Stefani

Votes: 136

29. The Return of Wild Bill (1940)

Approved | 60 min | Drama, Western

To get possession of choice ranch lands, Matt and Jake Kilgore frame Sam Griffin for stealing cattle from Lige Saunders, set themselves up as vigilantes and then hang him. Then they urge Ol... See full summary »

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Bill Elliott, Iris Meredith, George Lloyd, Luana Walters

Votes: 48

30. Out West with the Peppers (1940)

Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Western

The Peppers - widowed Mrs. Pepper and her five children Polly, Ben, Joey, Davie and Phronsie - and the Kings - mining businessman J.H. King and his grandson Jasper King - are still living ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Edith Fellows, Dorothy Anne Seese, Dorothy Peterson, Charles Peck

Votes: 156

31. Deadwood Dick (1940)

Approved | 285 min | Western

Deadwood Dick, a masked and mysterious hero, is in reality Dick Stanley, editor of the Dakota Pioneer Press and a leading member of Statehood For Dakota. He is on the trail of a masked ... See full summary »

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Donald Douglas, Lorna Gray, Harry Harvey, Marin Sais

Votes: 65

32. I Married Adventure (1940)

Approved | 78 min | Adventure, Documentary, Family

I Married Adventure stars Osa Johnson and follows her 1940 best selling book of the same title. Osa is portrayed in studio produced scenes cut with actual footage from her nine world ... See full synopsis »

Director: Osa Johnson | Stars: Osa Johnson, Martin E. Johnson, Jim Bannon

Votes: 8

33. Girls of the Road (1940)

Approved | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Ann Dvorak, Helen Mack, Lola Lane, Ann Doran

Votes: 173

34. Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Family

Dagwood and Blondie are overjoyed when Mr. Dithers invites them to stay in an old mansion with servants and everything else--including ghosts.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy

Votes: 332

35. Military Academy (1940)

66 min | Drama

Tommy Lewis, the son of a big time racketeer, is enrolled in military school under an assumed name as protection from the notoriety of his father. Tommy is assigned to share a room with ... See full summary »

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tommy Kelly, Bobby Jordan, David Holt, Jackie Searl

Votes: 23

36. The Lady in Question (1940)

Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A juror in a murder trial takes pity on the recently acquitted defendant and invites her to move into his family's home and his son soon falls in love with her.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Brian Aherne, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Irene Rich

Votes: 934

37. The Secret Seven (1940)

Passed | 62 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Scientists, assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation, try to solve a series of murders.

Director: James Moore | Stars: Florence Rice, Barton MacLane, Bruce Bennett, Joseph Crehan

Votes: 21

38. The Durango Kid (1940)

Approved | 61 min | Western

The first film in which Charles Starrett played an alter-ego character known as "The Durango Kid" but this entry, for all intents and purposes, has only the names of Starrett and "Durango" ... See full summary »

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Charles Starrett, Luana Walters, Kenneth MacDonald, Francis Walker

Votes: 181

39. He Stayed for Breakfast (1940)

Approved | 89 min | Comedy

In Paris, the estranged wife of a wealthy banker hides a fiery communist fugitive in her apartment.

Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Loretta Young, Melvyn Douglas, Alan Marshal, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 214

40. Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940)

Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Drama

The Peppers--widowed Mrs. Pepper and her five children Ben, Polly, Joey, Davie, and Phronsie--have returned to live in their small house in Gusty Corners with J.H. "Grandpa" King, his ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Edith Fellows, Dorothy Anne Seese, Dorothy Peterson, Pierre Watkin

Votes: 165

41. Before I Hang (1940)

Passed | 62 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi

A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.

Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett, Edward Van Sloan

Votes: 1,416

42. The Howards of Virginia (1940)

Approved | 116 min | Drama, History, War

Just prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war.

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal

Votes: 1,262

43. Glamour for Sale (1940)

Approved | 60 min | Drama, Romance

An undercover man (Roger Pryor) recruits an escort-service rookie (Anita Louise) to inform him of scams.

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Anita Louise, Roger Pryor, Frances Robinson, June MacCloy

Votes: 107

44. Prairie Schooners (1940)

Passed | 58 min | Drama, Western

Being unable to grow crops and pay their land owner Stull due to the drought, Wild Bill gets a group of Kansas farmers to form a wagon train and head to Colorado. Stull is afraid they will ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Nelson | Stars: Bill Elliott, Evelyn Young, Dub Taylor, Kenneth Harlan

Votes: 53

45. Angels Over Broadway (1940)

Passed | 79 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A cuckolded embezzler on the verge of suicide is helped by a tout, an alcoholic playwright, and a pick-up girl to reimburse the money with a gambling sting.

Directors: Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen

Votes: 1,337

46. So You Won't Talk (1940)

Approved | 69 min | Comedy, Crime

"Whiskers," the timid book reviewer on a metropolitan daily newspaper is fired, along with his girlfriend, switchboard-operator Lucy Walters. They agree to meet for dinner to discuss a book... See full summary »

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Frances Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Bernard Nedell

Votes: 40

47. Fugitive from a Prison Camp (1940)

Approved | 59 min | Drama

Bill Harding's love for Ann Baldwin causes him to become involved with a gang of criminals when he tries to convince Ann's brother Ted to quit the gang. Arrested as an accomplice of the ... See full synopsis »

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Marian Marsh, Robert Barrat, Phillip Terry

48. Nobody's Children (1940)

Approved | 64 min | Drama

An orphaned boy refuses to leave his sister who has a disability, which makes their adoption challenging.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Edith Fellows, Billy Lee, Georgia Caine, Lois Wilson

Votes: 66

49. West of Abilene (1940)

Approved | 58 min | Drama, Music, Western

Settlers of the rapidly-growing frontier town of Vaquero, who bought their land at five dollars an acre from an irrigation company, are being victimized by Forsythe (Don Beddoe) and Chris ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Ceder | Stars: Charles Starrett, Bruce Bennett, Marjorie Cooley, William Pawley

Votes: 16

50. The Green Archer (I) (1940)

Passed | 285 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans.

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Victor Jory, Iris Meredith, James Craven, Robert Fiske

Votes: 198

51. Blondie Plays Cupid (1940)

Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy

Votes: 399

52. Beyond the Sacramento (1940)

Approved | 58 min | Western

Bill learns that two con artists whom he has dealt with before are at it again. Crowley runs the saloon and Adams the newspaper and both are highly respected by the citizens. Bill has ... See full summary »

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Bill Elliott, Evelyn Keyes, Dub Taylor, John Dilson

Votes: 61

53. Girls Under 21 (1940)

Approved | 64 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Frances Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some time behind bars as a result of her husband's activities, and, when she gets out, ... See full summary »

Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Rochelle Hudson, Paul Kelly, Tina Thayer

Votes: 56

54. The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940)

Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Drama, Crime

Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Miami trying to solve the crime and make a profit.

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Warren William, Frances Robinson, Bruce Bennett, Eric Blore

Votes: 382

55. Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940)

Approved | 69 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin, James Burke

Votes: 217

56. Thundering Frontier (1940)

Passed | 57 min | Western

A kindhearted hero takes on a gang of criminals in the old West.

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Ray Bennett, Alex Callam

Votes: 13

57. The Great Plane Robbery (1940)

61 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

When heavily-insured gangster Frankie Toller is released from prison, Mike Henderson is assigned by the insurance company to make sure Toller's policy expires before he does. This, concise.

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Stanley Fields, Vickie Lester, Noel Madison

Votes: 32

58. The Phantom Submarine (1940)

Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Mystery, Romance

On the night before he sails in search of the steamship Arcadia's sunken gold, Paul Sinclair (Bruce Bennett) meets Madeleine Neilson (Anita Louise) in a San Francisco nightclub. On the ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bruce Bennett, Anita Louise, Oscar O'Shea, John Tyrrell

Votes: 42

59. Arizona (1940)

Passed | 125 min | Drama, Western

In Tucson of the 1860s, a pioneer woman struggles to succeed in the freight and cattle business while at risk at the hands of corrupt and violent local businessmen and rampaging Indians.

Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William, Porter Hall

Votes: 1,489

60. The Wildcat of Tucson (1940)

Approved | 59 min | Drama, Western

When his brother Dave is put in jail, Bill Hickok returns to help him. Dave has been charged with attempted murder when the other man drew first. Judge Barlow put him there and Bill gets ... See full summary »

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Bill Elliott, Evelyn Young, Stanley Brown, Dub Taylor

Votes: 21

61. This Thing Called Love (1940)

Passed | 98 min | Comedy

A woman insists to her new husband that they must remain celibate for the first three months of their marriage, which he tries desperately to get around.

Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas, Binnie Barnes, Allyn Joslyn

Votes: 212

62. The Face Behind the Mask (1941)

Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A disfigured watch-maker with a grudge against society embarks on a life of crime.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes, Don Beddoe, George E. Stone

Votes: 1,875

63. White Eagle (1941)

Approved | 290 min | Western

White Eagle is the son of a massacred army officer, who has been raised by an Indian tribe and believes himself to be the son of the tribal chief. White Eagle is working to get a peace ... See full summary »

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Buck Jones, Raymond Hatton, Dorothy Fay, James Craven

Votes: 56

64. The Devil Commands (1941)

Approved | 65 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Scientist becomes obsessed with the idea of communicating with his dead wife.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Boris Karloff, Anne Revere, Amanda Duff, Richard Fiske

Votes: 1,438

65. The Voice in the Night (1941)

95 min | Drama, War

Hitler's doctor is gradually realizing that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start disappearing into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and ... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Raymond Huntley, Derek Farr

Votes: 307

66. The Pinto Kid (1941)

Approved | 61 min | Drama, Music, Western

Texas cattleman Jud Calvert (Charles Starrett)runs into post-Civil War animosity inspired by Vic Landeau (Paul Sutton), cattle broker and secret leader of an outlaw gang, when he announces ... See full summary »

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Charles Starrett, Louise Currie, Bob Nolan, Sons of the Pioneers

67. Across the Sierras (1941)

Passed | 59 min | Drama, Music, Western

Bill saves his friend Larry from hanging and then tries to get him to join him in becoming a rancher. But Larry joins up with outlaw Carew and when Bill goes after him he accidentally ... See full summary »

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Bill Elliott, Richard Fiske, Luana Walters, Dub Taylor

Votes: 111

68. Meet Boston Blackie (1941)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Chester Morris, Rochelle Hudson, Richard Lane, Charles Wagenheim

Votes: 686

69. Outlaws of the Panhandle (1941)

Approved | 59 min | Drama, Music, Western

Jim Endicott has organized the ranchers into building a spur rail line so they can ship their cattle and avoid the rustlers. Faro Jack gets banker Potter to lend them the money and then ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Nelson | Stars: Charles Starrett, Frances Robinson, Stanley Brown, Norman Willis

Votes: 15

70. Blondie Goes Latin (1941)

Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Family, Music

Dagwood disguises himself as a drummer in the ship's conga band to sneak aboard a South American cruise ship. Blondie performs several song-and-dance routines.

Directors: Frank R. Strayer, Robert Sparks | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy

Votes: 328

71. The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941)

Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The Lone Wolf Michael Lanyard takes Inspector Crane's challenge that he can't keep out of trouble for 24 hours. No sooner accepted when Lanyard is sucked into a case of murder and ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Warren William, June Storey, Henry Wilcoxon, Eric Blore

Votes: 407

72. Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery (1941)

Approved | 69 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Jewlery smuggled into the United States from China.

Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin, Anna May Wong

Votes: 224

73. Adam Had Four Sons (1941)

Passed | 81 min | Drama

A governess becomes the center of a wealthy family after her employer's wife dies.

Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Warner Baxter, Susan Hayward, Fay Wray

Votes: 1,279

74. North from the Lone Star (1941)

Passed | 58 min | Drama, Western

Kirby is taking over Deadwood and his next victim is Wilson. But Wild Bill arrives just in time to foil Kirby's plan. Kirby makes Bill the town Marshal and Bill arrests Wilson when he ... See full summary »

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Bill Elliott, Richard Fiske, Dorothy Fay, Dub Taylor

Votes: 31

75. The Great Swindle (1941)

58 min | Drama, Mystery

In this mystery, an insurance investigator must find the arsonists behind the burning of a warehouse. The detective does get some good photographs as evidence, but they are stolen from his ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Jonathan Hale, Henry Kolker, Marjorie Reynolds

Votes: 16

76. Missing Ten Days (1940)

82 min | Drama

Bob Stevens (Sir Rex Harrison) awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists ... See full summary »

Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Rex Harrison, Karen Verne, C.V. France, Leo Genn

Votes: 67

77. Penny Serenade (1941)

Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Romance

A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan

Votes: 8,065

78. Under Age (1941)

Approved | 59 min | Crime, Drama

Jane Baird and her kid sister, Edie are released from the county detention home, where they had been jailed for vagrancy. They are approached by the Head Talent Scout/Pimp, Tap Mason,, in a... See full summary »

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Nan Grey, Alan Baxter, Mary Anderson, Tom Neal

Votes: 44

79. The Big Boss (1941)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama

Although they are brothers, Frank and Bob Dugan are complete opposites: Frank is arrogant and anti-social, while Bob is a good boy, anxious to get ahead in the world. One day, the boys's ... See full synopsis »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Otto Kruger, Gloria Dickson, John Litel, Don Beddoe

Votes: 48

80. The Return of Daniel Boone (1941)

Approved | 61 min | Western

Leach Kilgrain has a plan to gain control of all the ranches in Pecos. His unscrupulous Mayor Ewell boosts taxes higher than the ranchers can pay, and Kilgrain plans to buy the land cheaply... See full summary »

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Bill Elliott, Betty Miles, Dub Taylor, Ray Bennett

Votes: 74

81. Her First Beau (1941)

Approved | 76 min | Comedy, Romance

15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made ... See full summary »

Director: Theodore Reed | Stars: Jane Withers, Jackie Cooper, Edith Fellows, Josephine Hutchinson

Votes: 22

82. The Spider Returns (1941)

Approved | 300 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spider to save the country.

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Warren Hull, Mary Ainslee, Dave O'Brien, Joseph W. Girard

Votes: 279

83. She Knew All the Answers (1941)

Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Romance

Chorus girl Gloria Winters is overjoyed that wealthy young Randy Bradford is so eager to marry her that he's asked her to elope. Before they can leave, he is contacted by Mark Willows, who ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Joan Bennett, Franchot Tone, John Hubbard, Eve Arden

Votes: 99

84. They Dare Not Love (1941)

Approved | 75 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

An Austrian prince flees his homeland after the Nazis take over and settles in London. While in London, he meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his mistake in leaving ... See full summary »

Directors: James Whale, Victor Fleming, Charles Vidor | Stars: George Brent, Martha Scott, Paul Lukas, Kay Linaker

Votes: 141

85. Ni sangre, ni arena (1941)

104 min | Comedy

Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to ... See full summary »

Director: Alejandro Galindo | Stars: Cantinflas, Susana Guízar, Elvia Salcedo, Pedro Armendáriz

Votes: 180

86. Adventure in Washington (1941)

Approved | 84 min | Drama

The senator (Herbert Marshall) works to reform a delinquent youth who is working as a Senate page boy.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Virginia Bruce, Gene Reynolds, Samuel S. Hinds

Votes: 66

87. Time Out for Rhythm (1941)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Kitty Brown, the maid of Frances Lewis, a nightclub star, gets a Hollywood contract after Frances' fiancé forbids her to appear in the club.

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Rudy Vallee, Ann Miller, Rosemary Lane, Allen Jenkins

Votes: 365

88. Naval Academy (1941)

Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Tommy Blake, a tough student at the Garfield Reform School, is given a chance to straighten his life when a friend of his father's, John Frazier, offers to enroll him at the State Naval ... See full synopsis »

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Freddie Bartholomew, Jimmy Lydon, Billy Cook, Pierre Watkin

Votes: 27

89. Hands Across the Rockies (1941)

Approved | 56 min | Western

Wild Bill Hickock (Bill Elliott) and Cannonball (Dub Taylor) help two young people in love (Mary Daily and Stanley Brown) and bring the murderer (Kenneth MacDonald) of Cannonball's father to justice.

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Bill Elliott, Virginia Davis, Dub Taylor, Kenneth MacDonald

Votes: 112

90. The Medico of Painted Springs (1941)

Passed | 58 min | Western

Appointed to examine recruits for Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders, Dr. Steven Monroe arrives by stagecoach to the town of Painted Springs. Painted Springs is being threatened by a war ... See full synopsis »

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Charles Starrett, Terry Walker, Ben Taggart, Ray Bennett

91. Sweetheart of the Campus (1941)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A college Principal objects to a nightclub opening near his campus.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Ruby Keeler, Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, Gordon Oliver

Votes: 192

92. Two in a Taxi (1941)

Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama

Jimmy Owens (Russell Hayden) is a driver for a taxicab-fleet trying to scrape together $300.00 in order to buy a small, roadside gas station from its elderly owner George Cleveland. In ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Anita Louise, Russell Hayden, Noah Beery Jr., Dick Purcell

Votes: 30

93. The Son of Davy Crockett (1941)

Passed | 55 min | Drama, Western

The last solo-starring feature film Bill Elliott made for Columbia, as his next eight westerns for Columbia featured Tex Ritter as his co-star. Young Dave Crockett and his sidekick ... See full summary »

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Bill Elliott, Iris Meredith, Dub Taylor, Kenneth MacDonald

Votes: 61

94. Blondie in Society (1941)

Passed | 76 min | Comedy

Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show. A highlight of this film is the canine burping display.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy

Votes: 369

95. Thunder Over the Prairie (1941)

Approved | 60 min | Drama, Western

This is the second of a three-film series starring Charles Starrett as "The Medico" (based on the Frontier Doctor character, Steven Monroe, created by James L. Rubel in books.) This entry ... See full summary »

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Charles Starrett, Cliff Edwards, Eileen O'Hearn, Stanley Brown

Votes: 25

96. The Richest Man in Town (1941)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy

Town banker Abb Crothers (Frank Craven) and small-town newspaper publisher Pete Martin (Edgar Buchanan) are basically friends, but are forever feuding, as neither man's views on any given ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Frank Craven, Edgar Buchanan, Eileen O'Hearn, Roger Pryor

97. I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island (1941)

71 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Sally Eilers, Donald Woods, Eduardo Ciannelli, Victor Kilian

Votes: 32

98. Tillie the Toiler (1941)

Approved | 67 min | Adventure, Comedy

Tillie Tompkins (Kay Harris) gets a stenographer's job in a company owned by Mr. Simpkins (George Watts) where her short boyfriend Mac (William Tracy) is also employed. Her total ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Kay Harris, William Tracy, George Watts, Daphne Pollard

99. King of Dodge City (1941)

Approved | 63 min | Drama, Western

Wild Bill Hickok is sent to Abilene to take on Morgan King and his gang. When he breaks into King's bank to get proof of King's thievery, Sheriff Tex puts him in jail. His friend Cannonball... See full summary »

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Bill Elliott, Tex Ritter, Judith Linden, Dub Taylor

Votes: 46

100. Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime (1941)

Passed | 68 min | Mystery

Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to death. Ellery Queen gets to the bottom of the mystery.

Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin, Spring Byington

Votes: 161



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