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Before I Hang (1940)
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, b...
Murder Over New York (1940)
Coincidence like ancient egg, leave unpleasant odour. Canary unlike faithful dog, do not die from sympathy. Number 2 son very promising detective, promise very...
The Return of Frank James (1940)
Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse.
Cafe Hostess (1940)
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 ...
The Letter (1940)
William Wyler directs an unscupulously nasty Bette Davis who is at her compulsive best in Somerset Maugham's celebrated melodrama. Set in the ex- British colo...
Johnny Apollo (1940)
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assi...
The Dark Eyes of London (1940)
A series of strange deaths takes place in London. All are accidents but the victims are single men with no family and they all have a link to a life insurance ...
Charlie Chan in Panama (1940)
Inspector Chan investigates a group of travelers, one of whom is a saboteur.
Hold That Woman (1940)
A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a smal...
They Drive by Night (1940)
Brothers Paul and Joe Fabrini run a trucking business in California mainly shipping fruit from farms to the markets in Los Angeles. They struggle to make ends m...
The Devil Bat (1940)
Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge b...
Midnight Limited (1940)
The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train "The Midnight Limited" and Val Lennon and his pretty assi...
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940)
An escaped convicted murderer hides out at a New York wax museum where he hopes to get plastic surgery, which will help him revenge himself on Charlie Chan.
I Take This Oath (1940)
Steve Hannigan, joins the police force as a rookie after his father, a veteran policeman, has been murdered by a bomb placed by racketeers. Steve intends to fin...
Crimes at the Dark House (1940)
After killing a supposedly rich man, the murderer assumes the man's identity and returns to England to claim his fortune.
It All Came True (1940)
After crooked nightclub owner Chips Maguire murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding h...
Angels Over Broadway (1940)
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.
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a café owner's throat and is soon accused of a similar crime himse...
I Was an Adventuress (1940)
A pair of crooks (von Stroheim and Lorre) use a phony countess (Zorina) who winds up falling in love with one of their victims (Greene).
The Green Hornet (1940)
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.