Nigel Bruce, 71 min Charles Middleton, Approved A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers. From Orson Welles’ upturned face in the sudden light from a window, to the music by Anton Karas, with a trip around a famous Ferris wheel and a speech about cuckoo clocks to boot, it sums up something about the British sensibility to war. Katherine Emery, Approved Victor Francen, Passed Director: It has a lot in common with Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes, with Margaret Lockwood playing the lead in both films, and the cricket-obsessed duo of Charters and Caldicott making appearances. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! Classic Spooky Movies, Ghosts, Haunted House, Whodunit? | Stars: Director: Stars: Stars: | Stars: | Director: Erle C. Kenton 6,439 $4.80M, Approved There’s a murder mystery that deepens, and a kind of a love story. The welfare state was under formation, and in the space of ten years we had become a very different country. A deranged scientist escapes from prison and recruits Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolf Man to get revenge on his behalf. | Lionel Atwill, Kent Smith, Stalking through it all is Pinkie Brown, a seventeen year old with sharp cheekbones and a suit to match, and with quick, desperate eyes. Tom Conway, | | 79 min Walbrook was a great actor. Larry Talbot returns to his father's castle in Wales and meets a beautiful woman. Related documentaries. | Albert Dekker, Director: Director: | Kent Smith, Passed [2], Hoping to present a viable alternative to the Universal juggernaut, RKO decided to embark on a series of its own horror films, starting with Cat People in 1942. | He’s cheerfully keen on composing piano music and relating tales of the murderous instincts of his staff and his time in India. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the ... See full summary », Director: | Director: Kim Hunter, | Jean Parker, | Stars: George Sanders, Graham Greene’s novel of Catholic guilt in a small-time gangster becomes film noir in this version of Brighton Rock. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects ... See full summary », Director: Blake Edwards, We’re lucky to be able to revisit this British version of the stage play at all. 69 min | | George Brent, Dorothy McGuire, An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together. Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi. Ann Carter, Approved Victor Fleming Fantasy, Horror. Donald Crisp, Approved Billy House, J. Carrol Naish, His popularity endured, and he was played by David Farrar in this filmic incarnation where he solves a murder at a Cornish tin-mine. 78 min John Brahm Warren William, | Paulette Goddard, | | Here are a few examples of ways you can filter the charts: The Worst Ghost Films of the 1940s; The Top 10 Ghost Films of the 1940s; The Best Horror Movies Of the 1980s | We started it at war with Nazi Germany, with the threat of IRA collaboration with the enemy looming large. Stars: Director: 14,439 | Jane Randolph, Ilona Massey, Everything builds to a very beautiful final scene that shows just what an amazing director Carol Reed was. | 72 min In 1944 George Cukor released an American version with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer, and the rumour is that MGM sought to suppress and even destroy this 1940 film. 67 min Robert Wise | | But sometimes, in the most challenging films, that villain looks no different from us. There’s no better way to imagine yourself in their shoes than to watch what they watched. The resurrected Wolf Man, seeking a cure for his malady, enlists the aid of a mad scientist, who claims he will not only rid the Wolf Man of his nocturnal metamorphosis, but also revive the frozen body of Frankenstein's inhuman creation. But Night Train to Munich has the added bonus of Rex Harrison as Dickie Randall, a laid-back Intelligence Officer who composes seaside songs and thinks nothing of impersonating a member of the SS with stylish insouciance. Director: Director: | And so, for all the crimes Pinkie has committed, it’s the one where he admits his real feelings about Rose on a gramophone record that becomes the focus of the action, and provides one of the most bittersweet endings in film. William Hartnell is in this too, and gives a real authority to his role as Pinkie’s second-in-command. Director: Howard gave people more than entertainment. Stars: A mad scientist working in the South American jungle miniaturizes his colleagues when he feels his megalomania is threatened. | Gross: Claude Rains, Amanda Duff, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. Michael Redgrave, There were books, TV and Radio serials, comic strips and numerous films of Sexton Blake’s adventures. A list of British films released in 1940. Stars: | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, A number of swamp land men have died by strangulation and the inhabitants believe that an innocent man they hanged is seeking revenge on all of the male descendants of those responsible for... See full summary », Director: | The thrillers of the time started off by using the threats of Nazism and the IRA to keep us on the edge of our seats, and ended up dealing with the question of whether the real evil is inside us. 92 min Lewis Allen Mary Merrall, Passed Richard Carlson, Dick Foran, | Isabel Jewell, Not Rated Donna Reed, | Director: | Archaeologists defile the tomb of mummified Kharis, who was buried alive for falling in love with an Egyptian princess. 113 min Paul Lukas, Not Rated One fateful night, Talbot escorts her to a local carnival where they meet a mysterious gypsy fortune teller. George Waggner Scientist becomes obsessed with the idea of communicating with his dead wife. | 99 min Drama, Horror. Director: | Stars: A list of horror films released in the 1940s.After the success of Son of Frankenstein (1939), Universal horror caught a second wind and horror films continued to be produced at a feverish pace into the mid-1940s. Edith Barrett, Passed Angela Lansbury, Approved Like many Greene novels, there’s a strong sense of retribution to this story. Peggy Moran, | Richard Fiske, Not Rated Let’s just say that Where Eagles Dare is not the only war film that realised the thrilling potential of mountainous cable car rides. Roy William Neill The lines between good and evil, safety and danger, were the stuff of entertainment that tapped into the concerns of the public. Mark Robson Director: Boris Karloff, Drama, Horror, Mystery, On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. Jean Brooks, Stars: Wallace Ford, Tod Slaughter, | Gross: A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory. Ralph Bellamy, Stars: