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Subgenre Sampler
Gaslight (1940)
- Dir. Thorold Dickinson
Feat. Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell… - This potently atmospheric "Victorian" thriller boasts a suitably wired Anton Walbrook as a repressed patriarch who torments his wife in an effort to…
Ghost Breakers, The (1940)- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson… - THE CAT AND THE CANARY stars Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard reunite for this middling chiller with Goddard inheriting a haunted mansion on a small…
Go West (1940)- Dir. Edward Buzzell
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx - The Marx Brothers take on the Wild West armed with one–liners and slapstick in a tamer effort from their later career.
Grapes of Wrath (1940)- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Henry Fonda, John Carradine - Henry Fonda stars in this masterful humanist film about a group of destitute Oklahoma farmers that trek to California in hope of a better life. One…
Great Dictator, The (1940)
- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin - Chaplin's brave subversive satire in which he inhabits dual roles – dictator Adenoid Hynkle and a Jewish barber – for his damning…
Great McGinty, The (1940)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest… - The first film with Preston Sturges both scripting and directing, this dryly wacky political satire sees cynical bum Donlevy rise to the heights of…
Green Hornet, The (1940)- Dir. Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
Feat. Gordon Jones, Keye Luke, Anne Nagel… - George W. Trendle's classic masked vigilante – originally stepping out in comic book and radio form, before appearing on TV (with Bruce Lee as…
His Girl Friday (1940)- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy - Fast and furious comic masterpiece with Cary Grant in superb form as a conniving newspaper editor whose ex–wife happens to be his star…
Howards Of Virginia, The (1940)- Dir. Frank Lloyd
Feat. Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Sir Cedric Hardwicke - Cary Grant rather bumbles through this melodrama set during the American Revolution, playing a rugged surveyor who marries aristocrat and royalist…
Invisible Woman, The (1940)- Dir. A. Edward Sutherland
Feat. Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard… - The mad professor (Barrymore) is about to lose hope of salvaging his project when finally someone answers the call (an ad in the paper) to be his…
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