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391,142	Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!	1940-01-01	['Romance', 'Comedy', 'Music']	In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads for her elopement. The two begin traveling together and get further mixed up with a fleeing bank robber, a crazy tourist camp, and other troubles. Songs include: "Oh Johnny, How You Can Love," "Ma...	['trunk', 'cabin']	Charles Lamont	['Tom Brown', 'Peggy Moran', 'Allen Jenkins', 'Donald Meek', 'Isabel Jewell', 'Juanita Quigley', 'Horace McMahon', 'Matt McHugh', 'Joe Downing', 'Vinton Hayworth']	63	0.622	5.7
285,011	Broken Strings	1940-01-01	['Music', 'Drama']	After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing music to classical.	['violinist']	Bernard B. Ray	['Clarence Muse', 'Sybil Lewis', 'Tommie Moore', 'William Washington', 'Matthew Beard', 'Pete Webster', 'Edward Thompson', 'Buck Woods', 'Darby Jones', 'Jess Lee Brooks']	60	0.947	4.5
463,564	Mandrake the Magician	1940-01-01	['Action']	Feature version of the American serial film, produced for export only, never exhibited in the USA, and believed to be a lost film.	['lost film', 'feature version of movie serial']	Sam Nelson	['Warren Hull', 'Doris Weston', 'Al Kikume', 'Rex Downing', 'Edward Earle', 'Forbes Murray', 'Kenneth MacDonald', 'Don Beddoe', 'Dick Curtis', 'John Tyrrell']	215	1.35	5
939,331	Bits of Our Aircraft are Missing	1940-01-01	['Documentary']	British Air Ministry short film highlighting the need for the public to stay clear of aircraft wreckage during World War II.	['world war ii']	Darrell Catling	['Patricia Roc', 'Basil Sydney', 'Philip Friend']	22	0.742	6
423,665	A Christmas Carol	1940-01-01	['Drama', 'Fantasy']	Based on the story by Charles Dickens. Filmed in Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A. Preserved by the Oesterreichisches Filmmsuem, Vienna and Temenos Archive, Zurich.	['christmas', 'short film']	Gregory J. Markopoulos	['Gregory J. Markopoulos', 'Andrew Markopoulos', 'Elaine Markopoulos']	5	0.641	10
395,259	Ministry of Food Cookery Hints No. 1: Oatmeal Porridge	1940-01-01	['Documentary']	How to make porridge using a haybox.	['cooking', 'wartime', 'instruction', 'instructional video', 'instructional', 'porridge', 'documentary short']	Jay Lewis	['Maxwell Munden']	6	0.475	7
1,393,505	Ministry of Food Cookery Hints No. 3 - Potatoes	1940-01-01	['Documentary']	A short film made by the Central Office of Information about how to cook Potatoes, with narration from Max Munden.	['cooking', 'wartime', 'educational', 'potatoes']	Jay Gardner Lewis	['Max Munden']	6	0.606	7
352,746	Yukon Flight	1940-01-02	['Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Western', 'Action']	When the plane owned by the "Yukon and Columbia Mail Service" crashes, RCMP Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) and Constable Kelly (Dave O'Brien) suspect murder. Their suspicions are confirmed when Renfrew finds the control stick has been jammed, forcing the plane to fly in one direction until the gas ran out. Mine owner ...	['gold', 'trap', 'sergeant', 'yukon, canada']	Ralph Staub	['James Newill', 'Louise Stanley', 'Warren Hull', 'William Pawley', "Dave O'Brien", 'George Humbert', 'Karl Hackett', 'Jack Rube Clifford', 'Roy Barcroft', 'Bob Terry']	57	0.849	3.9
130,365	Music in My Heart	1940-01-04	['Music', 'Romance', 'Comedy']	A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.	['newspaper', 'adoption', 'restaurant', 'election', 'valet']	Joseph Santley	['Tony Martin', 'Rita Hayworth', 'Edith Fellows', 'Alan Mowbray', 'Eric Blore', 'George Tobias', 'Joseph Crehan', 'George Humbert', 'Joey Ray', 'Don Brodie']	70	1.93	6.1
161,987	The Shadow	1940-01-05	['Action', 'Crime', 'Science Fiction']	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.	['movie serial', 'the shadow']	James W. Horne	['Victor Jory', 'Veda Ann Borg', 'Roger Moore', 'Robert Fiske', 'John Paul Jones', 'Chuck Hamilton', 'Edward Peil Sr.', 'Frank LaRue', 'Philip Ahn', 'Griff Barnett']	285	1.591	6.5
251,862	Legion of the Lawless	1940-01-05	['Western']	Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.	['outlaw', 'vigilante']	David Howard	['George O’Brien', 'Virginia Vale', 'Herbert Heywood', 'Norman Willis', 'Hugh Sothern', 'William Benedict', 'Eddy Waller', 'Delmar Watson', 'Bud Osborne', 'Monte Montague']	59	2.477	5.2
116,007	The Earl of Chicago	1940-01-05	['Drama']	A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.	['prohibition era', 'gangster', 'lordship']	Richard Thorpe	['Robert Montgomery', 'Edward Arnold', 'Reginald Owen', 'Edmund Gwenn', 'E. E. Clive', 'Ronald Sinclair', 'Norma Varden', 'Halliwell Hobbes', 'Ian Wolfe', 'Peter Godfrey']	87	1.898	5.6
373,040	Emergency Squad	1940-01-05	['Drama', 'Action', 'Crime']	Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project...	['tunnel', 'emergency', 'stockholder']	Edward Dmytryk	['William Henry', 'Louise Campbell', 'Richard Denning', 'Robert Paige', 'Anthony Quinn', 'John Miljan', 'John Marston', 'Joseph Crehan', 'Sam Ash', 'Barbara Barondess']	58	3.139	5
46,832	21 Days Together	1940-01-07	['Drama', 'Romance']	After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.	['wrongful conviction']	Basil Dean	['Vivien Leigh', 'Laurence Olivier', 'Leslie Banks', 'Francis L. Sullivan', 'David Horne', 'William Dewhurst', 'Frederick Lloyd', 'Robert Newton', 'Esme Percy', 'Elliott Mason']	72	3.597	6.1
526,209	Spills for Thrills	1940-01-07	['Documentary', 'Action', 'Comedy']	Warner Bros. short about stuntmen and stuntwomen and how they do their work, featuring real-life stunt artists Harvey Parry, Mary Wiggins, and Allen Pomeroy.	['stunt', 'stuntman', 'stuntwoman', 'stuntperson', 'stunt double']	De Leon Anthony	['Harvey Parry', 'Mary Wiggins', 'Allen Pomeroy', 'Knox Manning', 'John Ridgely']	18	1.023	6
250,332	The Green Hornet	1940-01-08	['Adventure', 'Crime', 'Science Fiction']	A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.	['movie serial', 'based on radio drama']	Ford Beebe	['Gordon Jones', 'Anne Nagel', 'Keye Luke', 'Cy Kendall', 'Wade Boteler', 'Phillip Trent', 'Stanley Andrews', 'Selmer Jackson', 'Joseph Crehan', 'Walter McGrail']	258	3.353	5.5
352,537	The Man Who Wouldn't Talk	1940-01-11	['Crime', 'Drama']	A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.	['witness', 'mute']	David Burton	['Lloyd Nolan', 'Jean Rogers', 'Richard Clarke', 'Onslow Stevens', 'Eric Blore', 'Joan Valerie', 'Mae Marsh', 'Paul Stanton', 'Douglas Wood', 'Irving Bacon']	74	3.948	4
111,577	Mexican Spitfire	1940-01-12	['Comedy']	Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their marriage.	['mistaken identity']	Leslie Goodwins	['Lupe Vélez', 'Leon Errol', 'Donald Woods', 'Linda Hayes', 'Elisabeth Risdon', 'Cecil Kellaway', 'Charles Coleman', 'Brooks Benedict', 'Lester Dorr', 'Jack Gargan']	67	1.177	4.6
20,334	The Shop Around the Corner	1940-01-12	['Comedy', 'Drama', 'Romance']	Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.	['salesclerk', 'secret love', 'lovesickness', 'budapest, hungary', 'anonymous letter', 'man woman relationship', 'pen pals', 'love', 'co-workers relationship', 'music box', 'bickering', 'gift shop', 'holiday season', 'christmas', 'parfumerie']	Ernst Lubitsch	['Margaret Sullavan', 'James Stewart', 'Frank Morgan', 'Joseph Schildkraut', 'Sara Haden', 'Felix Bressart', 'William Tracy', 'Inez Courtney', 'Sarah Edwards', 'Edwin Maxwell']	99	17.788	8.1
28,421	The Invisible Man Returns	1940-01-12	['Horror', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller']	The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.	['monster', 'insanity', 'scotland yard', 'sequel', 'murder', 'on the run', 'black and white', 'scientist', 'madness', 'invisible person', 'framed for murder', 'escape from jail', 'invisibility', 'invisible man']	Joe May	['Cedric Hardwicke', 'Vincent Price', 'Nan Grey', 'John Sutton', 'Cecil Kellaway', 'Alan Napier', 'Forrester Harvey', 'Ernie Adams', 'Jimmy Aubrey', 'Walter Bacon']	81	7.548	6.2
249,972	Brother Rat and a Baby	1940-01-13	['Comedy']	Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.	['virginia', 'manhattan, new york city']	Ray Enright	['Ronald Reagan', 'Priscilla Lane', 'Wayne Morris', 'Eddie Albert', 'Jane Bryan', 'Jane Wyman', 'Peter B. Good', 'Arthur Treacher', 'Moroni Olsen', 'Jessie Busley']	87	3.254	5.2
62,098	City of Chance	1940-01-13	['Crime', 'Drama']	Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.	['gambler', 'newspaper reporter']	Ricardo Cortez	['Lynn Bari', 'C. Aubrey Smith', 'Donald Woods', 'Amanda Duff', 'June Gale', 'Richard Lane', 'Robert Lowery', "Alexander D'Arcy", 'George Douglas', 'Harry Shannon']	56	2.464	5.2
60,400	The Blue Bird	1940-01-15	['Family', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Comedy']	Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.	['fairy tale', 'peasant', 'based on fairy tale']	Walter Lang	['Shirley Temple', 'Spring Byington', 'Nigel Bruce', 'Gale Sondergaard', 'Eddie Collins', 'Sybil Jason', 'Jessie Ralph', 'Helen Ericson', 'Johnny Russell', 'Laura Hope Crews']	88	8.435	5.7
59,706	The Fatal Hour	1940-01-15	['Mystery', 'Thriller']	When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexit...	['smuggling (contraband)', 'detective', 'murder', 'mr. wong']	William Nigh	['Boris Karloff', 'Marjorie Reynolds', 'Grant Withers', 'Charles Trowbridge', 'Frank Puglia', 'Craig Reynolds', 'Lita Chevret', 'Harry Strang', 'Hooper Atchley', 'Jason Robards Sr.']	68	1.842	6
3,085	His Girl Friday	1940-01-18	['Comedy', 'Romance']	Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.	['prison', 'journalist', 'suicide', 'journalism', 'based on play or musical', 'wager', 'fugitive', 'black and white', 'screwball comedy', 'corrupt politician', 'newspaper editor', 'insurance agent', 'fiancé fiancée relationship', 'press room', 'political corruption', 'rolltop desk', 'reprieve', 'criterion', 'bride-to-b...	Howard Hawks	['Cary Grant', 'Rosalind Russell', 'Ralph Bellamy', 'Gene Lockhart', 'Helen Mack', 'Porter Hall', 'Ernest Truex', 'Cliff Edwards', 'Clarence Kolb', 'Roscoe Karns']	92	13.146	7.402
293,744	Laddie	1940-01-18	['Drama']	Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.	['based on novel or book']	Jack Hively	['Tim Holt', 'Virginia Gilmore', 'Joan Carroll', 'Spring Byington', 'Robert Barrat', 'Miles Mander', 'Esther Dale', 'Sammy McKim', 'Joan Leslie', "Martha O'Driscoll"]	70	1.656	6
356,319	West of Carson City	1940-01-19	['Western']	West of Carson City remains one of the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns. The story takes place in a gold-rush community where the locals are taken to the cleaners by duplicitious Eastern gamblers. When it becomes obvious that the local constabulary has been "bought off" by the crooks, two-fisted cattleman...	['prisoner', 'judge']	Ray Taylor	['Johnny Mack Brown', 'Bob Baker', 'Fuzzy Knight', 'Peggy Moran', 'Harry Woods', 'Robert Homans', 'Al K. Hall', 'Roy Barcroft', 'Charles King', 'Frank Mitchell']	56	2.547	2
69,207	Congo Maisie	1940-01-19	['Comedy', 'Drama', 'Romance']	Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors. The romantic jungle has a dedicated doctor with an un-dedicated wife and an embittered doctor who is dedicated to no one.	['congo', 'stowaway', 'plantation', 'jungle', 'showgirl', 'maisie ravier', 'witch doctor', 'east africa']	H. C. Potter	['Ann Sothern', 'John Carroll', 'Rita Johnson', 'Shepperd Strudwick', 'J.M. Kerrigan', 'E. E. Clive', 'Everett Brown', 'Tom Fadden', 'Lionel Pape', 'Nathan Curry']	71	2.206	4.2
201,130	Married and in Love	1940-01-19	['Drama', 'Romance']	Two married couples become engulfed in a storm of emotional fury when Doctor Leslie Yates runs into writer Doris Wilding, his old college flame, whom he has not seen in ten years. After reminiscing about their past, Doris and Leslie make a dinner date with their respective spouses. On the eve of the Yates's dinner part...	['college sweetheart']	John Farrow	['Alan Marshal', 'Barbara Read', 'Patric Knowles', 'Helen Vinson', 'Hattie Noel', 'Frank Faylen', 'Carol Hughes', 'Mike Lally']	59	1.824	5.3
100,011	You Nazty Spy!	1940-01-19	['Comedy']	In this satire of the Nazis the Stooges are wallpaper hangers in the country of Moronica. When evil cabinet ministers overthrow the King, they decide to make Moe the new ruler as he'll be stupid enough to follow their orders. Moe becomes Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry becomes Minister of Propaganda. After...	['political satire']	Jules White	['Curly Howard', 'Larry Fine', 'Moe Howard', 'Don Beddoe', 'Dick Curtis', 'Richard Fiske', 'Lorna Gray', 'Charles Dorety', 'Al Thompson', 'Ned Glass']	18	1.746	7.1
236,445	Shakespearian Spinach	1940-01-19	['Animation', 'Comedy']	Popeye has replaced Bluto in the Spinach Theatre's production of Romeo and Juliet (Olive, of course), much to Bluto's surprise and dismay. Bluto does what he can to sabotage the production, like cranking up the snow and wind machines, and eventually coming onstage, even though Olive wants no part of him.	['romeo & juliet']	Dave Fleischer	['Jack Mercer', 'Margie Hines', 'Pinto Colvig']	6	0.294	4.3
29,617	Remember the Night	1940-01-19	['Comedy', 'Romance']	Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.	["new year's eve", 'indiana, usa', 'court case', 'redemption', 'road trip', 'respect', 'niagara falls', 'falling in love', 'kindness', 'family', 'district attorney', 'prosecutor', 'bail bondsman', 'barn dance', 'christmas', 'return home', 'shoplifter', 'mother daughter relationship']	Mitchell Leisen	['Barbara Stanwyck', 'Fred MacMurray', 'Beulah Bondi', 'Elizabeth Patterson', 'Willard Robertson', 'Sterling Holloway', 'Charles Waldron', 'Paul Guilfoyle', 'Charles Arnt', 'John Wray']	94	8.51	7.303
327,288	Alfalfa's Double	1940-01-20	['Comedy', 'Family']	Our Gang member Alfalfa comes face to face with his wealthy lookalike Cornelius.	['short film']	Edward L. Cahn	['Robert Blake', 'Darla Hood', 'George McFarland', 'Carl Switzer', 'Billie Thomas', "Leonard 'Percy' Landy", 'Barbara Bedford', 'Hank Mann', "Anne O'Neal", 'Milton Parsons']	10	1.322	6
672,613	Hidden Enemy	1940-01-20	['Action', 'Adventure', 'Drama']	Reporter vs. German spies and their new metal.	['new york city', 'cigarette', 'held at gunpoint', 'gang member', 'newspaper office', 'german spy', 'investigative reporter']	Howard Bretherton	['Warren Hull', 'Kay Linaker', 'Wilhelm von Brincken', 'George Cleveland', 'Fern Emmett', 'Edward Keane', 'Willy Castello', 'John Sheehan', 'Herbert Corthell', 'Vince Rush']	63	0.853	5
236,431	The Fishing Bear	1940-01-20	['Animation', 'Comedy', 'Family']	Barney's going fishing, but just as he's getting ready to hook a whole school of trout, a rather persistent duck keeps getting in the way.	['fish', 'fishing', 'eel', 'cartoon duck', 'trout', 'cartoon bear', 'electric eel', 'nuisance']	Rudolf Ising	['Rudolf Ising']	8	0.216	7
158,239	The Old South	1940-01-20	['Documentary', 'History']	This short film chronicles the importance of cotton to the economy and culture of America's Old South.	['southern usa', 'cotton', 'old south', 'short film']	Fred Zinnemann	['Frank Whitbeck', 'George Lynn']	11	1.645	5.833
43,822	The Stars Look Down	1940-01-22	['Drama']	Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.	['trade union', 'miner', 'social commentary', 'labor union']	Carol Reed	['Michael Redgrave', 'Margaret Lockwood', 'Emlyn Williams', 'Nancy Price', 'Allan Jeayes', 'Edward Rigby', 'Desmond Tester', 'David Markham', 'Cecil Parker', 'Linden Travers']	110	3.674	6.5
181,925	Wolf of New York	1940-01-23	['Drama']	A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.	['courtroom drama']	William C. McGann	['Edmund Lowe', 'Rose Hobart', 'William Demarest', 'James Stephenson', 'Maurice Murphy', 'Jerome Cowan', 'Charles D. Brown', 'Andrew Tombes', 'Ben Welden', 'Edward Gargan']	67	0.65	7
33,810	A Chump at Oxford	1940-01-25	['Comedy']	The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.	['oxford', 'black and white', 'oxford university']	Alfred J. Goulding	['Stan Laurel', 'Oliver Hardy', 'Forrester Harvey', 'Wilfred Lucas', 'Forbes Murray', 'Frank Baker', 'Eddie Borden', 'Gerald Rogers', 'Victor Kendall', 'Gerald Fielding']	63	7.973	6.8
139,775	Green Hell	1940-01-26	['Adventure', 'Romance']	A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.	['treasure', 'treasure hunt', 'jungle', 'south america']	James Whale	['Douglas Fairbanks Jr.', 'Joan Bennett', 'John Howard', 'George Sanders', 'Alan Hale', 'George Bancroft', 'Vincent Price', 'Gene Garrick', 'Francis McDonald', 'Mala']	87	4.174	4
249,460	High School	1940-01-26	['Comedy']	A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.	['high school', 'texas', 'teenager']	George Nichols Jr.	['Jane Withers', 'Lloyd Corrigan', 'Paul Harvey', 'Joan Leslie', 'Joe Brown Jr.', 'Lynne Roberts', 'Cliff Edwards', 'Claire Du Brey', 'Lillian Porter', 'John Kellogg']	74	1	5.5
45,571	The Saint's Double Trouble	1940-01-26	['Crime', 'Mystery']	Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.	['the saint']	Jack Hively	['George Sanders', 'Helene Reynolds', 'Jonathan Hale', 'Bela Lugosi', 'Donald MacBride', 'John F. Hamilton', 'Thomas W. Ross', 'Elliott Sullivan', 'Stanley Blystone', 'Ralph Dunn']	68	2.685	5.6
51,680	Santa Fe Marshal	1940-01-26	['Western']	U.S. Marshal Hopalong Cassidy is called when a town becomes overun with bad guys. Disguised as a member of a medicine show, Hoppy discovers that the ringleader is none other than sweet li'l ol' Ma Burton.	['medicine show']	Lesley Selander	['William Boyd', 'Russell Hayden', 'Marjorie Rambeau', 'Bernadene Hayes', 'Earle Hodgins', 'Britt Wood', 'Kenneth Harlan', 'William Pagan', 'George Anderson', 'Jack Rockwell']	68	1.782	6
85,232	The Lone Wolf Strikes	1940-01-26	['Comedy', 'Thriller', 'Romance', 'Drama', 'Crime']	Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.	['lone wolf']	Sidney Salkow	['Warren William', 'Joan Perry', 'Eric Blore', 'Alan Baxter', 'Astrid Allwyn', 'Montagu Love', 'Robert Wilcox', 'Don Beddoe', 'Fred Kelsey', 'Addison Richards']	67	2.068	6.3
435,942	Pound Foolish	1940-01-27	['Crime']	An expose of attempts by wealthy people to avoid payment of customs duties. Part of the MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series.	['short film', 'crime does not pay']	Felix E. Feist	['Neil Hamilton', 'Lynne Carver', 'Gertrude Michael', 'Victor Varconi', 'Barbara Bedford', 'Don Castle', 'Paul Everton', 'Bess Flowers', 'William Tannen']	20	0.919	7
322,310	Know Your Money	1940-01-27	['Drama', 'Crime']	This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counterfeiting.	['counterfeit', 'secret service', 'counterfeiting', 'counterfeiting ring', 'counterfeit money', 'crime does not pay']	Joseph M. Newman	['Noel Madison', 'Dennis Moore', 'Charles D. Brown', 'William Edmunds', 'John Wray', 'Wade Boteler', 'Egon Brecher', 'Frank Orth', 'Emmett Vogan', 'Charles Wagenheim']	20	1.628	9
72,638	The Fighting 69th	1940-01-27	['Action', 'Drama', 'War']	Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.	['army', 'faith', 'chaplain', 'regiment']	William Keighley	['James Cagney', 'Pat O’Brien', 'George Brent', 'Jeffrey Lynn', 'Alan Hale', 'Frank McHugh', 'Dennis Morgan', 'Dick Foran', 'William Lundigan', 'Guinn "Big Boy" Williams']	90	3.43	5.4
342,272	Chasing Trouble	1940-01-30	['Comedy', 'Drama', 'Mystery']	A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring.	['spy', 'flower shop', 'delivery boy']	Howard Bretherton	['Frankie Darro', 'Marjorie Reynolds', 'Mantan Moreland', 'Milburn Stone', 'I. Stanford Jolley', 'George Cleveland', 'Lillian Elliott', 'Alex Callam', 'Tris Coffin', 'Joe Devlin']	64	1.785	5
119,306	Convicted Woman	1940-01-31	['Crime', 'Drama']	A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.	['suicide', 'social worker', "women's prison", 'b movie', 'wrongful conviction', 'prison reform']	Nick Grindé	['Rochelle Hudson', 'Frieda Inescort', 'June Lang', 'Lola Lane', 'Glenn Ford', 'Iris Meredith', 'Lorna Gray', 'Esther Dale', 'William Farnum', 'Mary Field']	65	1.682	3.7
344,161	Frankenstein	1940-02-01	['Horror']	An amateur adaptation of Frankenstein.	['frankenstein']	Glenn H. Alvey Jr.	['Glenn H. Alvey Jr.', 'Edith Jarrell', 'Paul Meaders', 'Tish Walker', 'Russell Bertsch', 'Henry Dielmann, Jr']	30	0.647	10
184,955	I Take This Woman	1940-02-02	['Drama', 'Romance']	On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.	['suicide', 'unrequited love', 'love affair']	W.S. Van Dyke	['Spencer Tracy', 'Hedy Lamarr', 'Verree Teasdale', 'Kent Taylor', 'Laraine Day', 'Mona Barrie', 'Jack Carson', 'Paul Cavanagh', 'Louis Calhern', 'Frances Drake']	98	4.549	6.2
299,823	Danger On Wheels	1940-02-02	['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 thinks the engine design has a real chance to win races, but the racing association has banned it since the accident. He devises a...	['car race']	Christy Cabanne	['Richard Arlen', 'Andy Devine', 'Peggy Moran', 'Vinton Hayworth', 'Herbert Corthell', 'Harry C. Bradley', 'Sandra King', 'Landers Stevens', 'John Holmes', 'Jack Rice']	61	0.992	4.5
550,982	One for the Book	1940-02-03	['Comedy', 'Fantasy', 'Music']	In this entertaining short, famous literary figures step out of the pages of books after dark.	['song and dance', 'book comes to life', 'minstrel show']	Roy Mack	['Betty Hutton', 'Hal Sherman', 'Miriam Grahame']	18	1.254	6
179,987	Calling Philo Vance	1940-02-03	['Crime', 'Mystery']	Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom ...	['philo vance']	William Clemens	['James Stephenson', 'Margot Stevenson', "Henry O'Neill", 'Edward Brophy', 'Sheila Bromley', 'Ralph Forbes', 'Donald Douglas', 'Martin Kosleck', 'Jimmy Conlin', 'Edward Raquello']	62	2.177	5.8
324,247	A Case of Spring Fever	1940-02-03	['Animation', 'Documentary']	Advertising short for Chevrolet combining live action and animation. The film relates the story of Gilbert Willoughby, who, exasperated by his stubborn boxspring mattress, imprudently wishes for the disappearance of springs. Coily, the animated spring sprite, grants his wish, and Gilbert is bedeviled by once-familar ap...	['educational', 'short film']	Frank Goldman	['Pinto Colvig', 'Edward Nugent']	8	0.787	2.7
200,862	Vigil in the Night	1940-02-05	['Drama']	A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.	['night shift', 'self sacrifice', 'nurse', 'isolation', 'accidental death', 'epidemic', 'sick child', 'medical drama', 'charity hospital', 'death on duty', 'sisters love', 'hospital setting', 'hospital crisis', 'hospital expenses', 'negligent nurse', 'pre-war england', 'medical cover-up']	George Stevens	['Carole Lombard', 'Brian Aherne', 'Anne Shirley', 'Julien Mitchell', 'Robert Coote', 'Brenda Forbes', 'Peter Cushing', 'Rita Page', 'Ethel Griffies', 'Doris Lloyd']	102	2.653	6
188,125	Swiss Family Robinson	1940-02-08	['Adventure']	A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for themselves in the jungle environment.	['island', 'based on novel or book', 'shipwreck', '18th century', 'swiss family robinson']	Edward Ludwig	['Thomas Mitchell', 'Edna Best', 'Freddie Bartholomew', 'Terry Kilburn', 'Tim Holt', 'Bobbie Quillan', 'Christian Rub', 'John Wray', 'Herbert Rawlinson', 'Jack Stoney']	93	2.834	5.4
239,025	Five Little Peppers at Home	1940-02-08	['Family', 'Comedy', 'Drama']	The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner becomes ill.	['family relationships', 'five little peppers']	Charles Barton	['Dorothy Peterson', 'Edith Fellows', 'Charles Peck', 'Tommy Bond', 'Bobby Larson', 'Dorothy Ann Seese', 'Clarence Kolb', 'Ronald Sinclair', 'Rex Evans', 'Herbert Rawlinson']	67	1.61	6.3
237,741	Little Old New York	1940-02-09	['Romance', 'Comedy', 'Drama', 'History']	Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.	['new york city', 'inventor', 'biography', 'steamboat', 'sailor']	Henry King	['Alice Faye', 'Richard Greene', 'Fred MacMurray', 'Brenda Joyce', 'Andy Devine', 'Henry Stephenson', 'Fritz Feld', 'Ward Bond', 'Clarence Wilson', 'Robert Middlemass']	100	3.259	4
29,353	My Little Chickadee	1940-02-09	['Comedy', 'Western']	While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.	['con man', 'masked man', 'bandit', 'pretend marriage']	Edward F. Cline	['Mae West', 'W.C. Fields', 'Joseph Calleia', 'Dick Foran', 'Ruth Donnelly', 'Margaret Hamilton', 'Donald Meek', 'Fuzzy Knight', 'Willard Robertson', 'George Moran']	83	5.481	6.467
43,809	Broadway Melody of 1940	1940-02-09	['Music', 'Romance', 'Comedy']	Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.	['musical']	Norman Taurog	['Fred Astaire', 'Eleanor Powell', 'George Murphy', 'Frank Morgan', 'Ian Hunter', 'Florence Rice', 'Lynne Carver', 'Ann Morriss', 'Trixie Firschke', 'Libby Taylor']	102	7.126	6.7
205,193	Busy Bakers	1940-02-10	['Animation', 'Family', 'Comedy']	Struggling Swenson the baker is down to just a single donut remaining in his shop. He gives it to a blind beggar who stops in. Later, while Swenson sleeps, the kindness is rewarded.	['beggar', 'bakery', 'blind man', 'baker']	Ben Hardaway	['Mel Blanc']	7	2.743	5
40,372	Puss Gets the Boot	1940-02-10	['Animation', 'Comedy']	Jasper is given an ultimatum by his master: break one more thing and you're out. Rodent Jerry does his best to make sure that his tormentor "gets the boot".	['cat', 'mouse', 'cartoon cat', 'cartoon mouse', 'short film']	William Hanna	['Lillian Randolph', 'Harry Lang', 'William Hanna']	9	10.495	6.9
22,967	East Side Kids	1940-02-10	['Comedy', 'Drama', 'Thriller']	After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends goes to prison for a murder he didn't commit. The policeman tries his best to release the friend by proving his innocence.	['falsely accused', 'murder', 'gang', 'east side kids']	Robert F. Hill	['Leon Ames', 'Dennis Moore', 'Joyce Bryant', 'Hal E. Chester', 'Harris Berger', 'Frankie Burke', 'Vince Barnett', "Dave O'Brien", 'Ted Adams', 'Maxine Leslie']	62	1.159	7
352,938	Northward, Ho!	1940-02-10	['Documentary']	Behind-the-scenes promotional featurette to publicize the epic outdoor adventure Northwest Passage filmed on location in Idaho.	['behind the scenes', 'making of']	Harry Loud	['Spencer Tracy', 'Robert Young', 'King Vidor', 'Frank Whitbeck', 'Clark Gable', 'Myrna Loy', 'Clem Bevans', 'Truman Bradley', 'Lew Strohm', 'Donald MacBride']	10	0.533	5
333,572	Granny Get Your Gun	1940-02-10	['Western', 'Comedy']	An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges.	['sheriff', 'casino', 'gambling', 'fingerprint', 'elderly']	George Amy	['May Robson', 'Harry Davenport', 'Margot Stevenson', 'Hardie Albright', 'Clem Bevans', 'Clay Clement', 'William B. Davidson', 'Arthur Aylesworth', 'Ann E. Todd', 'Vera Lewis']	56	2.342	3.5
414,709	Honeymoon Deferred	1940-02-16	['Mystery']	Edmund Lowe plays an insurance investigator who interrupts his honeymoon to look into the case of a murder, which could also be a suicide, in which case his company won't have to pay the victim's contract. His wife, played by Margaret Lindsay, insists on following him around, not only to help him solve the case, but to...	['honeymoon']	Lew Landers	['Edmund Lowe', 'Margaret Lindsay', 'Elisabeth Risdon', 'Chick Chandler', 'Joyce Compton', 'Cliff Clark', 'Anne Gwynne', 'Julie Stevens', 'Jerry Marlowe', 'Joe Sawyer']	59	1.132	6
229,206	The Heckler	1940-02-16	['Comedy']	An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.	['baseball']	Del Lord	['Charley Chase', 'Tom Hanlon', 'Don Beddoe', 'Bruce Bennett', 'Beatrice Blinn', 'Sammy Blum', 'Stanley Brown', 'Chuck Callahan', 'Monte Collins', 'Dorothy Comingore']	20	0.935	5
192,510	The Man from Dakota	1940-02-16	['Drama', 'History', 'War', 'Western']	A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.	['civil war', 'prison escape']	Leslie Fenton	['Wallace Beery', 'John Howard', 'Dolores del Río', 'Donald Meek', 'Robert Barrat', 'Addison Richards', 'Frederick Burton', 'William Haade', 'John Wray']	75	1.584	5.3
26,376	Castle on the Hudson	1940-02-17	['Crime', 'Drama']	A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.	['prison', 'sing sing']	Anatole Litvak	['John Garfield', 'Ann Sheridan', 'Pat O’Brien', 'Burgess Meredith', "Henry O'Neill", 'Jerome Cowan', 'Guinn "Big Boy" Williams', 'John Litel', 'Margot Stevenson', 'Willard Robertson']	77	2.675	6.8
353,188	Home Movies	1940-02-17	['Comedy']	A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.	['home movies']	Basil Wrangell	['Robert Benchley', 'Marie Blake', 'John Butler', 'Hobart Cavanaugh', 'Monica Bannister']	8	0.535	6
254,957	Frances Carroll & 'The Coquettes'	1940-02-17	['Music']	Bandleader Frances Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.	['all girl band', 'girl band', 'bandleader', 'swing music']	Roy Mack	['Frances Carroll', 'Eunice Healey']	10	0.679	5
12,232	The Thief of Bagdad	1940-02-19	['Adventure', 'Fantasy', 'Romance']	When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.	['love at first sight', 'giant spider', 'flying horse', 'sultan', 'flying carpet', 'djinn', 'orient', 'thief', 'baghdad', 'blindness', 'genie', 'arabian nights', 'crystal ball', 'magician', 'beautiful princess', 'turned into animal', 'wishes', 'vibrant']	Tim Whelan	['Conrad Veidt', 'Sabu', 'June Duprez', 'John Justin', 'Rex Ingram', 'Miles Malleson', 'Morton Selten', 'Mary Morris', 'Bruce Winston', 'Hay Petrie']	107	9.99	7.1
352,535	The Cheyenne Kid	1940-02-20	['Western']	A ranch owner gives the Cheyenne Kid $1000 and sends him off to buy cattle. At the same time he fires a ranch hand and that hand rides ahead and alerts Jeff Baker about the $1000. Bakers' henchman are too late to get the Kid but they kill the rancher paid by the Kid. The Sheriff then arrests the Kid claiming he murdere...	['ranch', 'stunt']	Raymond K. Johnson	['Jack Randall', 'Louise Stanley', 'Kenne Duncan', 'Frank Yaconelli', 'Reed Howes', 'Charles King', 'George Chesebro', 'Forrest Taylor', 'Ed Brady', 'Lafe McKee']	50	1.049	3.3
236,795	Teddy the Rough Rider	1940-02-21	['Drama', 'History']	This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 19...	['biography', 'historical', 'short film']	Ray Enright	['Sidney Blackmer', 'Douglas Wood', 'Selmer Jackson', 'Theodore von Eltz', 'Arthur Loft', 'John Ridgely', 'Glenn Strange', 'Robert Warwick', 'Frank Wilcox', 'Pierre Watkin']	19	1.124	6.4
43,806	Abe Lincoln in Illinois	1940-02-22	['Drama', 'History']	Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.	['biography', 'historical figure', 'abraham lincoln']	John Cromwell	['Raymond Massey', 'Gene Lockhart', 'Ruth Gordon', 'Mary Howard', 'Minor Watson', 'Alan Baxter', 'Harvey Stephens', 'Howard Da Silva', 'Dorothy Tree', 'Aldrich Bowker']	110	3.007	7
120,597	Framed	1940-02-23	['Crime', 'Drama']	A young newspaper reporter finds himself framed for murder.	['murder', 'reporter', 'framed', 'framed for murder']	Harold D. Schuster	['Frank Albertson', 'Constance Moore', 'Jerome Cowan', 'Robert Armstrong', 'Sidney Blackmer', 'Judith Allen', 'Herbert Rawlinson', 'Vinton Hayworth', 'Milburn Stone', 'Barbara Pepper']	60	1.222	5.8
88,192	Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet	1940-02-23	['Drama']	True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.	['biography', 'doctor', 'tuberculosis', 'medical breakthrough', 'syphilis', 'cure', 'virus', 'research laboratory', 'bacteria', 'diphtheria', 'laboratory accident', '1900s', 'science laboratory', 'research scientist', 'vaccine researcher']	William Dieterle	['Edward G. Robinson', 'Ruth Gordon', 'Otto Kruger', 'Donald Crisp', 'Maria Ouspenskaya', 'Montagu Love', 'Sig Ruman', 'Donald Meek', "Henry O'Neill", 'Albert Bassermann']	103	3.714	6.3
43,805	Northwest Passage	1940-02-23	['Adventure', 'History', 'War', 'Drama']	Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.	['fort', 'native american', 'ranger', 'massacre', 'scalping', 'cannibal', 'french and indian war']	King Vidor	['Spencer Tracy', 'Robert Young', 'Walter Brennan', 'Ruth Hussey', 'Nat Pendleton', 'Louis Hector', 'Robert Barrat', 'Lumsden Hare', 'Donald MacBride', 'Isabel Jewell']	126	7.371	6.3
10,895	Pinocchio	1940-02-23	['Animation', 'Family', 'Fantasy']	A little wooden puppet yearns to become a real boy.	['rescue', 'sea', 'child abuse', 'based on novel or book', 'magic', 'whale', 'italy', 'donkey', 'lie', 'fairy', 'fox', 'cartoon', 'villain', 'carnival', 'wish', 'puppet', 'nose', 'conscience', 'wish fulfillment', 'toy comes to life', 'animal cruelty', 'child slavery', 'pool', 'boy', 'pinocchio', 'cartoon donkey']	Hamilton Luske	['Dickie Jones', 'Cliff Edwards', 'Christian Rub', 'Evelyn Venable', 'Walter Catlett', 'Mel Blanc', 'Charles Judels', 'Frankie Darro', 'Don Brodie', 'Marion Darlington']	88	44.866	7.1
352,511	Murder on the Yukon	1940-02-25	['Western', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Action']	Unknown to Joan Manning, her trading post partner Weathers is operating a counterfeiting ring. When miner Jim Smithers brings his gold dust in, Weathers pays him off in counterfeit money. Jim's drunken brother, Bill, comes to the post and Weathers hears him say that Jim is leaving the area for good. Weathers sends Hawk...	['suicide', 'gold', 'counterfeiting']	Louis J. Gasnier	['James Newill', 'Polly Ann Young', "Dave O'Brien", 'Al St. John', 'William Royle', 'Chief Thundercloud', 'Karl Hackett', "Harry 'Snub' Pollard", 'Kenne Duncan', 'Budd Buster']	58	1.555	3.5
13,784	Black Friday	1940-02-29	['Science Fiction', 'Crime', 'Horror']	University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into th...	['experiment', 'gangster', 'professor', 'murder', 'mad doctor', 'car accident', 'brain surgeon', 'hidden loot', 'brain transplant', 'hidden money']	Arthur Lubin	['Stanley Ridges', 'Boris Karloff', 'Bela Lugosi', 'Anne Nagel', 'Anne Gwynne', 'Virginia Brissac', 'Edmund MacDonald', 'Paul Fix', 'Murray Alper', 'Jack Mulhall']	70	9.949	6
3,937	Blondie on a Budget	1940-02-29	['Comedy']	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.	['blondie']	Frank R. Strayer	['Penny Singleton', 'Arthur Lake', 'Larry Simms', 'Daisy', 'Rita Hayworth', 'Danny Mummert', 'Don Beddoe', 'John Qualen', 'Fay Helm', 'Irving Bacon']	72	2.517	6
50,271	Strange Cargo	1940-03-01	['Drama', 'Romance', 'Adventure']	Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.	['escape', 'convict']	Frank Borzage	['Joan Crawford', 'Clark Gable', 'Ian Hunter', 'Peter Lorre', 'Paul Lukas', 'Albert Dekker', 'J. Edward Bromberg', 'Eduardo Ciannelli', 'John Arledge', 'Frederick Worlock']	113	7.395	7
38,458	Charlie Chan in Panama	1940-03-01	['Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Comedy']	Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.	['panama', 'panama canal', 'charlie chan']	Norman Foster	['Sidney Toler', 'Jean Rogers', 'Lionel Atwill', 'Mary Nash', 'Victor Sen Yung', 'Kane Richmond', 'Chris-Pin Martin', 'Lionel Royce', 'Helen Ericson', 'Jack La Rue']	66	4.459	6.8
37,956	The House Across the Bay	1940-03-01	['Drama']	Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda, testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma, who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alc...	['husband wife relationship', 'gangster']	Archie Mayo	['George Raft', 'Joan Bennett', 'Lloyd Nolan', 'Walter Pidgeon', 'Gladys George', 'Billy Wayne', 'June Knight', 'Peggy Shannon', 'Cy Kendall', 'Frank Bruno']	88	1.77	5.3
396,576	Boss of Bullion City	1940-03-01	['Western', 'Crime']	A lawman sets out to disrupt the operations of a crooked town boss.	['gold shipment']	Ray Taylor	['Johnny Mack Brown', 'Fuzzy Knight', "Nell O'Day", 'Maria Montez', 'Harry Woods', 'Melvin Lang', 'Melvin Lang', 'Earle Hodgins', 'Karl Hackett', 'George Humbert']	61	1.452	5
83,379	Double Alibi	1940-03-01	['Adventure', 'Crime', 'Mystery']	A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.	['romantic rivalry', 'drinking', 'death']	Phil Rosen	['Wayne Morris', 'Margaret Lindsay', 'William Gargan', 'Roscoe Karns', 'Robert Emmett Keane', 'James Burke', 'William Pawley', 'Frank Mitchell', 'Eddy Chandler', 'Cliff Clark']	60	1.673	4.5
41,524	Elmer's Candid Camera	1940-03-02	['Animation', 'Comedy']	Elmer takes up wildlife photography but finds his subject, a rabbit, much too rascally.	['photography', 'taking\xa0a picture', 'cartoon rabbit', 'rascal']	Chuck Jones	['Mel Blanc', 'Arthur Q. Bryan', 'Marion Darlington']	8	3.858	6.5
68,064	Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe	1940-03-03	['Science Fiction', 'Action']	A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.	['based on comic', 'rocket ship', 'movie serial', 'plague', 'flash gordon']	Ford Beebe	['Buster Crabbe', 'Carol Hughes', 'Charles Middleton', 'Anne Gwynne', 'Frank Shannon', 'John Hamilton', 'Herbert Rawlinson', 'Tom Chatterton', 'Shirley Deane', 'Lee Powell']	195	5.018	5.7
282,439	The Marines Fly High	1940-03-04	['Action', 'Adventure', 'Drama', 'Romance']	Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant.	['training', 'romance', 'aviation', 'u.s. marine']	Benjamin Stoloff	['Richard Dix', 'Lucille Ball', 'Chester Morris', 'Steffi Duna', 'John Eldredge', 'Paul Harvey', 'Horace McMahon', 'Dick Hogan', 'Kirby Grant', 'Ann Shoemaker']	68	1.076	5.5
533,521	Outside the Three-Mile Limit	1940-03-07	['Crime', 'Drama']	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 three-mile limit and operated by gangster Dave Reeves.	['counterfeiting']	Lewis D. Collins	['Jack Holt', 'Harry Carey', 'Sig Ruman', 'Eduardo Ciannelli', 'Donald Briggs', 'Irene Ware', 'Dick Purcell', 'Ben Welden', 'Paul Fix', 'George J. Lewis']	64	1.536	4
218,315	The Fight for Life	1940-03-07	['Drama', 'History']	The Fight for Life was documentary filmmaker Pare Lorentz' first "dramatic" film, utilizing the talents of several top New York stage actors. A tribute to the Chicago Maternity Center and its efforts to provide the best possible care for destitute mothers, the film is based on the book of the same name by Paul de Kruif...	['nurse', 'anemia', 'receptionist', 'death of mother', 'death in childbirth', 'washing hands']	Pare Lorentz	['Myron McCormick', 'Storrs Haynes', 'Will Geer', 'Dudley Digges', 'Woody Guthrie', 'Dorothy Adams', 'Dorothy Urban', 'Effie Anderson']	69	1.421	5
138,406	Adventure in Diamonds	1940-03-08	['Crime', 'Drama']	A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.	['murder', 'jewel theft']	George Fitzmaurice	['George Brent', 'Isa Miranda', 'John Loder', 'Nigel Bruce', 'Elizabeth Patterson', 'Cecil Kellaway', 'Genia Nikolaieva', 'Matthew Boulton', 'Rex Evans', 'Walter Kingsford']	76	1.813	5.2
145,012	Females Is Fickle	1940-03-08	['Animation', 'Comedy']	Olive Oyl brings her new pet goldfish onto Popeye's ship, but the fish jumps out of its bowl and into the sea. Olive pressures Popeye to go after it.	['sea', 'underwater', 'jellyfish', 'goldfish', 'cartoon fish']	Dave Fleischer	['Jack Mercer', 'Margie Hines', 'Pinto Colvig']	6	1.011	4
237,460	Isle Of Destiny	1940-03-08	['Drama', 'Adventure']	A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.	['arms smuggling']	Elmer Clifton	['June Lang', 'William Gargan', 'Wallace Ford', 'Gilbert Roland', 'Etienne Girardot', 'Katherine DeMille', 'Grant Richards', 'Tom Dugan', 'Harry Woods', 'Ted Osborne']	95	1.704	5
124,892	The Ghost Comes Home	1940-03-08	['Romance', 'Comedy', 'Drama']	Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.	['fraud', 'inheritance']	Wilhelm Thiele	['Frank Morgan', 'Billie Burke', 'Ann Rutherford', 'John Shelton', 'Reginald Owen', 'Donald Meek', 'Don Castle', 'Nat Pendleton', 'Frank Albertson', 'Harold Huber']	79	2.729	5
51,638	The Showdown	1940-03-08	['Western']	European bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves.	['horse thieves']	Howard Bretherton	['William Boyd', 'Britt Wood', 'Russell Hayden', 'Jan Clayton', 'Morris Ankrum', 'Wright Kramer', 'Eddie Dean', 'Donald Kirke', 'Roy Barcroft', 'Kermit Maynard']	65	2.63	6
380,653	Laugh It Off	1940-03-09	['Music']	As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his girlfriend at the local pub. To keep moral up, his commanding officer orders him to perform for the troops.	['entertainer', 'world war ii', 'awol', 'bandleader']	John Baxter	['Tommy Trinder', 'Jean Colin', 'Anthony Hulme', 'Marjorie Browne', 'Edward Lexy', 'Ida Barr', 'Charles Victor', 'Charles Victor', 'Wally Patch', 'Warren Jenkins']	78	0.406	5.3
188,038	Jack Pot	1940-03-09	['Drama', 'Crime']	This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with illegal gambling and bookmaking.	['corrupt politician', 'mob action', 'police raid', 'illegal gambling', 'slot machine', 'public service announcement', 'crime does not pay']	Roy Rowland	['Tom Neal', 'Ann Morriss', 'Edwin Maxwell', 'Jean Rouverol', 'Hugh Beaumont', "Don 'Red' Barry", 'Joseph Crehan', 'Lloyd Corrigan']	20	1.365	6

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