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Men Against the Sky (1940) on 6 september 1940
, 1h15Directed by Leslie Goodwins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Richard Dix, Kent Taylor, Edmund Lowe, Wendy Barrie, Granville Bates, Grant Withers
Rating56%
Phil Mercedes (Richard Dix), once a record-setting pilot, is now an aging alcoholic. As an air show performer, while inebriated, he crashes his stunt aircraft into a barn and is grounded for a year. His sister Kay (Wendy Barrie), his only means of support, hopes to land a job in the drafting department for Martin Ames (Kent Taylor), the chief engineer for Dan McLean (Edmund Lowe), an aircraft manufacturer.
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940) on 6 september 1940
, 1h5Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, C. Henry Gordon, Marc Lawrence, Marguerite Chapman, Joan Valerie
Rating70%
Chan's testimony results in a death sentence for convicted murderer Steve McBirney (Marc Lawrence). However, he escapes and heads to a wax museum, a secret Mob hideout run by Dr. Cream (C. Henry Gordon). Cream, a crooked "facial surgeon", operates on McBirney, changing his appearance.
Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride (1940) on 5 september 1940
, 1h5Directed by Frank McDonald
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance, Western
Actors Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Mary Lee, Slim Whitaker, Warren Hull
Rating67%
Singing cowboy Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and his sidekick Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) work on a ranch owned by Ann Randolph (June Storey). Gene is unaware that he has just inherited the Belmont Packing Company. While Gene and Frog take the cattle to market, Gene has an argument with Ann who fires them both, giving them one of the steers as back pay. Later the local sheriff, seeing a Randolph steer in the possession of the two cowboys, arrests Gene and Frog on suspicion of cattle rustling. Attorney Henry Walker (Forbes Murray), who has been searching for the singing cowboy, finally locates Gene at the jail and informs him of his inheritance.
Citizen Kane Trailer (1940) on 5 september 1940
, 4minutesDirected by Orson Welles
Origin USA
Actors Ray Collins, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead
Rating75%
Calling All Husbands (1940) on 7 september 1940
, 1h19Directed by Noel M. Smith
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors George Tobias, Lucile Fairbanks, Ernest Truex, George Reeves, Florence Bates, Charles Halton
Rating60%
Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940) on 6 september 1940
, 1h19Directed by Harold S. Bucquet
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Samuel S. Hinds, Gene Lockhart, Nat Pendleton
Rating64%
Doctor James Kildare (Lew Ayres), just appointed resident assistant at the Byng State Hospital by his mentor Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), is forced to return to his hometown when his general-practitioner father (Samuel S. Hinds) collapses from overwork.
Good Bad Boys (1940) on 7 september 1940
Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors George McFarland, Carl Switzer, Robert Blake, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, Leonard Landy, Byron Foulger
Rating61%
Slicker steals an orange from a fruit stand, and Alfalfa is wrongfully accused and punished for it. An angry Alfalfa decides to get even with his parents by embarking upon a life of crime. To that end, he enlists the other kids as his "mob." Hoping to deflect his pals from this drastic action, Spanky McFarland decides to teach the gang a lesson. He tricks the kids into thinking they're burglarizing a house, when in fact they're merely helping their neighbor, Mrs. Wilson, clean out her junk. Things take an unexpected turn when a real-life fugitive from justice chooses the gang's clubhouse as his hideout, with the cops hot on his heels. Assuming the police are after them, Alfalfa and the gang confess to their "crime," not knowing what the real crime committed by the real criminal was. The next morning they are arraigned and Spanky comes in with Mrs. Wilson to explain what had really happened. Meanwhile, Slicker is being arraigned with his mother for what seems to be an unrelated crime. For Alfalfa, Spanky, and the rest of the gang, everything is solved.