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Tugboat Mickey
Tugboat Mickey (1940) on 26 april 1940
, 7minutes
Directed by Clyde Geronimi
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about birds, Mise en scène d'un rongeur, Mise en scène d'un canard, Mise en scène d'une souris, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Walt Disney, Pinto Colvig, Clarence Nash
Rating68% 3.430423.430423.430423.430423.43042
Mickey, Donald et Dingo forment l'équipage d'un remorqueur de bateaux. Connaissant les capacités de chacun, le sauvetage et l'assistance d'un navire n'est pas de tout repos, surtout qu'un pélican a décidé de nicher sur le bateau. Dingo est chargé de la chaudière à charbon, moteur du bateau, tandis que Donald s'occupe de la mécanique.
Irene
Irene (1940) on 23 april 1940
, 1h41
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Anna Neagle, Ray Milland, Roland Young, Alan Marshal, May Robson, Billie Burke
Rating62% 3.147543.147543.147543.147543.14754
Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by the young girl, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. In order to promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the soiree.
Porky's Poor Fish
Porky's Poor Fish (1940) on 26 april 1940

Directed by Bob Clampett
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about pigs, Court métrage de Porky Pig, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Mel Blanc
Rating61% 3.0972253.0972253.0972253.0972253.097225
Porky Pig possède un magasin de poisson et sort déjeuner. Après qu'un chat n'a pas beaucoup de succès avec une souris, il entre dans le magasin de poisson quand Porky est absent. Quand le chat pense avoir le bon appétit, les poissons vont à la guerre contre lui et le chassent du magasin. Il est alors flippé par la souris et rétrécit au fur et à mesure que la souris grandit.
An Angel from Texas
An Angel from Texas (1940) on 27 april 1940
, 1h9
Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Eddie Albert, Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Rosemary Lane, Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan
Rating57% 2.8561652.8561652.8561652.8561652.856165
Peter "Tex" Coleman, a butter and egg man from Texas, comes to New York with his mother's life savings to buy a hotel in the big city and be near his stage struck sweetheart, Lydia Weston. Upon his arrival, Tex finds Lydia working as a secretary for a couple of fast-talking producers rather than being the stage star that her home town thinks she has become.
The New Pupil
The New Pupil (1940) on 27 april 1940

Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors George McFarland, Carl Switzer, Robert Blake, Darla Hood, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, May McAvoy
Rating58% 2.915962.915962.915962.915962.91596
Sally (Juanita Quigley) is a new student at the school that the gang goes to. Upon Sally's arrival, Alfalfa and Spanky literally fall over each other trying to get her attention, leaving the gang's traditional sweetheart Darla in the lurch. But when it turns out that Sally cannot stand either one of the boys, she and Darla cook up a scheme to dampen their romantic aspirations.
Shooting High
Shooting High (1940) on 25 april 1940
, 1h6
Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Musical, Western
Actors Jane Withers, Gene Autry, Marjorie Weaver, Hamilton MacFadden, Frank M. Thomas, Robert Lowery
Rating58% 2.912832.912832.912832.912832.91283
The Carsons and the Pritchards have been feuding in the town of Carson's Corners for generations. The budding romance between Will Carson (Gene Autry) and Marjorie Pritchard (Marjorie Weaver) is now being threatened by the long-standing feud. Margorie's father, Calvin Pritchard (Frank M. Thomas), is the bank president and mayor of Carson's Corners. Calvin pretends to support Will's courtship of his daughter because he needs to acquire a piece of Carson property for a proposed highway through the area. When Will learns of Calvin's true motives, he accuses Marjorie of scheming with her father to steal Carson land.
Forty Little Mothers
Forty Little Mothers (1940) on 26 april 1940
, 1h30
Directed by Busby Berkeley
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Eddie Cantor, Veronica Lake, Judith Anderson, Ralph Morgan, Rita Johnson, Bonita Granville
Rating64% 3.2418853.2418853.2418853.2418853.241885
Out of work professor Gilbert Jordan Thompson stops a suicidal stranger named Marian Edwards from jumping off a pier and helps her get a job so she can support herself. Then he finds an abandoned baby with a note asking someone to give him a good home. When he can't find anyone to claim the baby, Thompson "adopts" him so he won't end up in an orphanage.
French Without Tears
French Without Tears (1940) on 27 april 1940
, 1h26
Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ray Milland, Ellen Drew, Janine Darcey, Roland Culver, Guy Middleton, Jim Gerald
Rating67% 3.364063.364063.364063.364063.36406
The love affairs of three young Englishmen at a language "cramming" school in the south of France. Diana, the sister of one of the boys, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates.
Granite Hotel
Granite Hotel (1940) on 26 april 1940

Directed by Dave Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Actors Jack Mercer
Rating57% 2.8820152.8820152.8820152.8820152.882015
Set in a modern stone-age time, the viewer is presented to a gallery of characters like a telephone operator, the ventriloquist "Edgar Burgundy" and his doll "Charlie Bacardi" (a play on Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy) and a barber. A guest in need of a chess player calls the fire department who arrives riding a sauropod.