Movie Trailers - May 1940
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Popular trailers for movies released in May 1940
Total trailers found: 148
Torrid Zone Trailer (1940)
18 May 1940
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
Buck Benny Rides Again Trailer (1940)
31 May 1940
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch.
Land of the Six Guns Trailer (1940)
09 May 1940
Stone is buying cattle cheap in Mexico, bringing them across the border without paying duty, changing the brands, and then selling them at a big profit.
Pastor Hall Trailer (1940)
28 May 1940
The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers.
Comes Midnight Trailer (1940)
25 May 1940
Two men will receive $100 if they stay in Old Man Mose’s deserted house overnight in order to dig up his body and get the gold that has been placed under his body, and return it to the rightful owner.
Westward Ho! Trailer (1940)
05 May 1940
Wartime short promoting the evacuation if urban children to rural areas.
Ski Patrol Trailer (1940)
09 May 1940
In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.
Hollywood: Style Center of the World Trailer (1940)
29 May 1940
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America.
Blyge Anton Trailer (1940)
06 May 1940
Anton, a very shy bookkeeper, must show his mettle when him and his colleagues at work ask for a raise but instead are laid off.
Yesterday Is Over Your Shoulder Trailer (1940)
05 May 1940
A wartime short encouraging workers to join free, government-organised engineering training schemes.
Bal paré Trailer (1940)
22 May 1940
At the turn of the century in Munich, a ballerina accepts the sponsorship of an older industrialist but also spends time with his son.
For Freedom Trailer (1940)
04 May 1940
Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage.
Radio Ranch Trailer (1940)
02 May 1940
Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.
Banzuiin Chōbei Trailer (1940)
29 May 1940
A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.
Sandy Is a Lady Trailer (1940)
21 May 1940
Mary and Joe Phillips' attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endangered by the antics of their two-year-old, Sandy.
Bubbling Troubles Trailer (1940)
25 May 1940
To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.
Texas Stagecoach Trailer (1940)
23 May 1940
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.
Dangerous Comment Trailer (1940)
18 May 1940
A young pilot, annoyed at not being selected to take part in a raid on an enemy target, moans to his fiancée, who in turn chatters to a friend at a cocktail bar.
Fragata Sarmiento Trailer (1940)
22 May 1940
It narrates the history of the Argentine ship that served for many generations like school for the formation of sailors.
Flight Angels Trailer (1940)
18 May 1940
Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing.
The Crooked Road Trailer (1940)
10 May 1940
A blackmail threat from an old prison buddy compels a man who has gone straight to consider yet another crime.
You're Next! Trailer (1940)
03 May 1940
Two goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad scientist.
Make Noise, Town Trailer (1940)
23 May 1940
A cheerful comedy about the life of the peripheral town of the late 30s. Despite its remoteness from the center, the town lives a busy life: new houses are being built, old streets are becoming cramped.
On Their Own Trailer (1940)
17 May 1940
The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets.
The Biscuit Eater Trailer (1940)
24 May 1940
Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs.
Escándalo Trailer (1940)
07 May 1940
The story focuses on a middle-class family. It introduces us to two characters: Corina, secretary of Don Emilio Condal, and his brother Julián, a newspaper columnist.
Island of Doomed Men Trailer (1940)
20 May 1940
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
Saturday's Children Trailer (1940)
04 May 1940
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
Chingari Trailer (1940)
04 May 1940
Geeta then goes to live with her brother, who is not in a financial position to adequately support her.
Typhoon Trailer (1940)
16 May 1940
Two men searching for black pearls are marooned on an island when their crew mutinies. There they run into a beautiful girl who had been washed up on the island in her childhood.
The Middle Watch Trailer (1940)
11 May 1940
Through a series of unforeseen events, two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spend the night on board the battleship HMS Falcon, where they have been attending a 'bon voyage' reception.
Mi madrecita Trailer (1940)
08 May 1940
Woman faces the vicissitudes of life with her three adult children well in the background. But when the chips are down.
Escape to Glory Trailer (1940)
20 May 1940
The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory.
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise Trailer (1940)
02 May 1940
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.
Mad Youth Trailer (1940)
05 May 1940
A rich society mother hires a male escort, but he falls for her daughter instead. The mother-daughter conflict forces the daughter to run off to stay with a friend who is enslaved by a prostitution ring.
Waterloo Bridge Trailer (1940)
17 May 1940
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
Gangs of Chicago Trailer (1940)
18 May 1940
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
The Man from Tumbleweeds Trailer (1940)
02 May 1940
Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.
Wots All th' Shootin' fer Trailer (1940)
03 May 1940
The cats of two feuding hillbilly families make for a Romeo and Julliet love affair. the gun play mounts in fury until they realize the two have kittens, and quarrel ends.
Alias the Deacon Trailer (1940)
13 May 1940
A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game.
The Burning Sky Trailer (1940)
10 May 1940
The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of newly-recruited pilots and their daily life, then their subsequent fighting experiences in China.
La Conga Nights Trailer (1940)
31 May 1940
In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals.
Mystery in Swing Trailer (1940)
09 May 1940
In and around some great blues, swing and jazz music, a very unpopular band-leader. Prince Ellis, is killed in a Harlem nightclub, and, in and around some more great music, a detective finds the lists of suspects is very long, as Prince Ellis was indeed very unpopular with many citizens.
Miente y serás feliz Trailer (1940)
31 May 1940
A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles.
Our Town Trailer (1940)
24 May 1940
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community.
Liebesschule Trailer (1940)
03 May 1940
A young woman works for two different men, both of whom fall in love with her. In the mornings she is secretary for a popular author and in the afternoons for a singer.
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby Trailer (1940)
01 May 1940
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad.
La luz de un fósforo Trailer (1940)
15 May 1940
A shy man invents in front of his friends a love affair with a singer but circumstances will lead him to conquer her.
20 Mule Team Trailer (1940)
03 May 1940
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition.
The Egg Hunt Trailer (1940)
31 May 1940
An English fellow lectures about his trip to the Gobi desert to find a dinosaur egg.
Beyond Tomorrow Trailer (1940)
10 May 1940
The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought together.
