Films and TV Shows from the 1940s

poster The Inspector General
The Inspector General
(3.4/5)
102mn - Comedy, Music, Romance
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is t…
poster The Amazing Mr. X
The Amazing Mr. X
(3.2/5)
68mn - Thriller, Horror
A mysterious spiritualist exploits a grieving widow by claiming he can communicate with her deceased husband, but when his elaborate séances awaken something genuinely supernatural, the con man finds hims…
poster The Red House
The Red House
(3.4/5)
100mn - Mystery, Thriller, Drama
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
poster Bowery at Midnight
Bowery at Midnight
(2.7/5)
61mn - Comedy, Crime, Horror
Professor Brenner leads a double life as a mild-mannered academic and a ruthless crime boss operating out of a Bowery soup kitchen, where a basement of reanimated corpses awaits those who fail him.
poster Malice in the Palace
Malice in the Palace
(3.7/5)
16mn - Comedy
Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contrab…
poster Chandralekha
Chandralekha
(3.6/5)
207mn - Drama, History, Adventure
Brothers Veer and Shashank fall in love with Chandralekha. Shashank kidnaps her and forces her to marry him. She requests a special drum dance prior to the wedding. The drums, however, hold a secret.
poster The Devil Bat
The Devil Bat
(2.7/5)
68mn - Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice thei…
poster Brideless Groom
Brideless Groom
(3.6/5)
17mn - Comedy
Shemp has to get married within seven hours in order to inherit $500,000. Now that's incentive! The bumbling threesome set to work right away with hilarious results.
poster Sing a Song of Six Pants
Sing a Song of Six Pants
(3.6/5)
16mn - Comedy
The three stooges pursue a notorious burglar in order to pay past due notes to the Skin & Flint company and save their tailor shop.
poster That's My Baby!
That's My Baby!
68mn - Comedy, Drama, Music
A love triangle occurs between the publisher's daughter Betty Moody. comic book artist Tim Jones, and the company's wily manipulative manager Hilton Payne. In addition, Betty's dad, Phineas Moody suffers …
poster The Big Wheel
The Big Wheel
(2.8/5)
92mn - Action, Drama, Romance
The ambitious son of a legendary race car driver who died at the Indianapolis 500 fights to escape his father's shadow and prove himself on the dangerous racing circuit, culminating in his own shot at the…
poster Lights of Old Santa Fe
Lights of Old Santa Fe
(3/5)
78mn - Action, Western
Sandwiched in between the numerous musical numbers, the Gabby Whittaker and Madden rodeo's are competing for bookings. When Gabby gets a date in Albuquerque, Madden has his man destroy his equipment. Roy …
poster Doomsday for Pests
Doomsday for Pests
15mn - Animation, Documentary
poster Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
(3.5/5)
52mn - Documentary, History, War
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of com…
poster Invisible Ghost
Invisible Ghost
(2.6/5)
64mn - Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When respected Dr. Charles Kessler catches glimpses of his supposedly dead wife wandering the grounds of his mansion, he falls into hypnotic trances that transform him into a remorseless killer, stalking …
poster Canadian Pacific
Canadian Pacific
(3.0/5)
95mn - Western, Adventure, History
A determined railroad surveyor battles through treacherous Rocky Mountain terrain and deadly opposition from fur trappers and hostile tribes to forge the critical Canadian Pacific Railway route that will …
poster The Carson City Kid
The Carson City Kid
(3/5)
57mn - Action, Western
A man poses as the notorious Carson City Kid, systematically robbing stagecoaches not for gold but for letters that will lead him to Morgan Reynolds, the ruthless killer who murdered his brother. When he …
poster Adventure Island
Adventure Island
66mn - Action, Adventure
A disgraced sea captain and his crew plan to hijack a ship filled with champagne, only to find themselves shipwrecked on a mysterious island ruled by a maniacal self-proclaimed king.
poster Colorado
Colorado
(3.0/5)
54mn - Action, Western
During the height of the Civil War, Lieutenant Jerry Burke is dispatched to Colorado Territory where Confederate sympathizers are preventing Union troops from reinforcing the eastern front. When Roy Roger…
poster Robin Hood of the Pecos
Robin Hood of the Pecos
(2.9/5)
59mn - Western
In post-Civil War Texas, former Confederate prisoner Vance Corbin returns home to find his county under the iron grip of corrupt carpetbaggers led by Ambrose Ballard. Elected as sheriff, Vance must fight …