’40s Movies

House of Dracula (1945)

House of Dracula (1945)

Dracula arrives at Dr. Edelman's office asking for a cure to his vampirism, but this is a ruse by Dracula to get near Dr. Edelman's beautiful female assistant and turn her into a vampire. Meanwhile, a sincere Lawrence Talbot, AKA the Wolfman, arrives seeking a cure...

House of Frankenstein (1944)

House of Frankenstein (1944)

After escaping from the asylum, the deranged Dr. Niemann and his loyal hunchback assistant, Daniel, revive not only the evil Count Dracula, but the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's monster as well. All in order to exact revenge upon their many enemies. Starring Boris...

She Wolf of London (1946)

She Wolf of London (1946)

Several murders have been committed in a London park and the victims have been savagely clawed about the throat. The police believe that a woman is a killer, and perhaps she is a (she) werewolf. Heiress Phyllis Allenby, fears she is the criminal, based on the family...

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

Larry Talbot finds himself in an asylum, recovering from an operation performed by the kindly Dr. Mannering. Inspector Owen finds him there, too, wanting to question him about a recent spate of murders. Talbot escapes and finds Maleva, the old gypsy woman who knows...

The Wolf Man (1941)

The Wolf Man (1941)

Upon the death of his brother, Larry Talbot returns from America to his ancestral home in Wales. He visits a gypsy camp with village girl Jenny Williams, who is attacked by Bela, a gypsy who has turned into a werewolf. Larry kills the werewolf but is bitten during the...

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

The world of freight handlers Wilbur Grey and Chick Young is turned upside down when the remains of Frankenstein's monster and Dracula arrive from Europe to be used in a house of horrors. Dracula awakens and escapes with the weakened monster, who he plans to...

The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944)

The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944)

An eager scientist tests his new formula for invisibility on an escaped fugitive. When the formula works the criminal runs off to terrorize a family he believes cheated him out of a fortune years earlier. Starring Jon hall, Evelyn Ankers, and Alan Curtis. This is the...

Invisible Agent (1942)

Invisible Agent (1942)

Frank Raymond, grandson of the original Invisible Man, still has the old formula but considers it too dangerous to use, even when Axis agents try to get it. But Pearl Harbor brings him to volunteer his own services as an invisible agent in Germany. Though a bit cold...

The Mummy’s Curse (1944)

The Mummy’s Curse (1944)

An irrigation project in the rural bayous of Louisiana unearths living mummy Kharis, who was buried in quicksand twenty-five years earlier. Now in Louisiana, the mummy Kharis roams the bayou, tormented by his forbidden love for Princess Ananka. Starring Lon Chaney...

The Mummy’s Ghost (1944)

The Mummy’s Ghost (1944)

An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a...

The Invisible Woman (1940)

The Invisible Woman (1940)

Eccentric Professor Gibbs, brilliant but impractical, invents an invisibility machine and advertises for a guinea pig. What he gets is Kitty Carroll, an attractive, adventurous model, who thinks being invisible would help her settle a few scores. Complications arise...

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

ramed for the murder of his brother, Geoffrey Radcliffe is scheduled to hang. After a visit from his friend Dr. Frank Griffin, he vanishes mysteriously from prison. Police inspector Sampson realizes that Griffin is the brother of the original Invisible Man and has...

The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)

The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)

The ancient Egypt Mummy, Kharis, is transported from his homeland with the high priest Mehemet to wreak vengeance on the family who has defiled the sacred tomb of his beloved Princess Ananka. Lon Chaney Jr., Dick Foran, and John Hubbard. The third mummy movie released...

The Mummy’s Hand (1940)

The Mummy’s Hand (1940)

A couple of comical, out-of-work archaeologists (Dick Foran and Wallace Ford) in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter (Peggy Moran), they set...

I Accuse My Parents (1944)

I Accuse My Parents (1944)

Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run....

Delinquent Daughters (1944)

Delinquent Daughters (1944)

A town is shocked when a high school girl commits suicide. A reporter and a cop team up to investigate and find out exactly what is going on among the youth of the town. There are lots of sleazy story elements that are sure to titillate. In this film, teens drink, use...

Son of Ingagi (1940)

Son of Ingagi (1940)

A wealthy old recluse wills her fortune and exceedingly-gloomy house to a pair of newlyweds, Robert and Eleanor Lindsay. Years before, Dr. Jackson had been in love with Eleanor's father, who was younger than her and did not return her love. N'Gina, an ape-man, Dr....

Counterblast (1948)

Counterblast (1948)

The story is about a Nazi doctor and escaped prisoner-of-war who goes to London. There, via the Nazi underground, he poses as an Australian bacteriologist, whom he has killed and taken his place, assigned to do some medical research. His plot is, using British labs...

King of the Rocket Men (1949)

King of the Rocket Men (1949)

An evil genius of unknown identity, calling himself “Dr. Vulcan” plots to conquer the world. He needs to first eliminate, one by one, the members of the Science Associates, an organization of America's greatest scientists. Using the flying jacket and helmet and other...

The Jungle Book (1942)

The Jungle Book (1942)

Teenaged Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. Mowgli learns human language and some human ways quickly, though keeping jungle ideas. Influential Merchant Buldeo is bigoted against 'beasts' including Mowgli; not so...

The Black Book (1949)

The Black Book (1949)

A movie about the French Revolution, Robespierre, a powerful figure in the revolution and the subsequent Reign of Terror, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked by him for the guillotine and a key to help him eventually emerge as the...

Hunky and Spunky Snubbed by a Snob (1940)

Hunky and Spunky Snubbed by a Snob (1940)

A young horse says hi to little donkey Spunky. But the horse's mother pulls him away, saying we don't associate with that kind. Spunky makes a few more overtures, and eventually they set off on a chase, running across a bull from time to time. The horse stops to eat a...

Hunky and Spunky – You Cant Shoe a Horse Fly (1941)

Hunky and Spunky – You Cant Shoe a Horse Fly (1941)

Hunky and Spunky are settling in for a nap, but a horse fly sees them and sees dinner. After battling the fly for a while, the youngster enlists dad's help. But the fly is merely stunned, and rallies a new attack, this time with friends. Father eventually kills the...

Casper in A Haunting We Will Go (1949)

Casper in A Haunting We Will Go (1949)

In the third cartoon, Casper the Friendly Ghost, after playing class dunce at Ghost School for being more concerned with making friends than scaring people, Casper continues his search for social acceptance and finally locates a duck, just hatched from its egg, that...

Casper the Friendly Ghost (1945)

Casper the Friendly Ghost (1945)

Depressed by the antics of the other ghosts, Casper leaves home to make friends. After unintentionally scaring several potential pals, Casper befriends two young children. They take him home, where Casper frightens their mother. Casper is again upset because he...

Gang Busters (1942)

Gang Busters (1942)

Detective Lt. Bill Bannister has the assignment to run down an unknown gang of terrorists spreading a net of crime over the city. Aiding him is Detective Tim Nolan, news photographer Vicki Logan and reporter Happy Haskins. Bill finds that the gang's leader is a...

Mr Wong in Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

Mr Wong in Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

Mr. Wong in Phantom of Chinatown-1940. In the last of the Mr. Wong movies, Boris Karloff is replaced by Keye Luke as his nephew Jimmy Wong. In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton the famous explorer,...

Mr Wong in Doomed to Die (1940)

Mr Wong in Doomed to Die (1940)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wez8SM6WB7c Mr. Wong is Doomed to Die-1940. Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office… at the...

The Stork Club (1945)

The Stork Club (1945)

A hat-check girl at the Stork Club (Hutton) saves the life of a drowning man (Fitzgerald). A rich man, he decides to repay her by anonymously giving her a bank account, a luxury apartment and a charge account at a department store. When her boyfriend (DeFore) returns...

Batman and Robin (1949)

Batman and Robin (1949)

Antisocial Professor Hammil's Remote Control device, which enables the user to take over any motor vehicle within 50 miles, is stolen by The Wizard, black-hooded mastermind, and his gang. Batman and Robin must prevent the Wizard from obtaining diamonds, needed as fuel...

The Tiger Woman (1944) Trailer

The Tiger Woman (1944) Trailer

Evil oil speculators in South America attempt to drive away a native tribe and their leader, the Tiger Woman. The Tiger Woman, a white woman, might be the lost heiress to a vast fortune. Who is Tiger Woman? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkzF9cqs4is

Son of Zorro (1947)

Son of Zorro (1947)

Young cavalry officer Jeff Stewart returns to his home in the west after the Civil War to find that a ring of crooked politicians has taken over the county, bleeding the citizens with 50% of value on the main trail, and protecting the rustlers that raid the cattle...

The Ape (1940)

The Ape (1940)

Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing towns people....

The Ape Man (1943)

The Ape Man (1943)

Conducting weird scientific experiments, mad scientist Dr. James Brewster, aided by his colleague Dr. Randall, has managed to transform himself into a hairy, stooped-over ape-man. Desperately seeking a cure, Brewster believes only an injection of recently-drawn human...

Law of the Jungle (1942)

Law of the Jungle (1942)

Nona Brooks, former member of a stranded theatrical troupe, earns a temporary living singing in a café in Duakwa, British Rhodesia, Africa. The café owner is secretly in league with two foreign agents with a goal of making the natives restless. American explorer Larry...

Tiger Woman (1944)

Tiger Woman (1944)

Evil oil speculators in South America, led by Morgan, are trying to force Tiger Woman and her band of warriors from their jungle home. Allen Saunders of Inter-Ocean Oil wants to develop the oil, too, but fights with Tiger Woman, a white woman, might be the lost...

The Adventures of Smilin’ Jack (1943)

The Adventures of Smilin’ Jack (1943)

In 1941, an American aviator, ‘Smilin’ Jack’ Martin wishes to resign as an advisor to the Nationalist Chinese Army in order to return to the United States to enlist as an aviator in America’s military buildup prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. He is delayed when the...

Dressed to Kill (1946)

Dressed to Kill (1946)

Sherlock Holmes is intrigued when Dr. Watson's friend, Julian 'Stinky' Emery, visits and tells them of a strange robbery at his flat the previous night. Stinky is an avid collector of music boxes and has several quite expensive pieces in his vast collection. The...

The Fatal Hour (1940)

The Fatal Hour (1940)

When Captain Street's best friend Dan Grady is murdered, Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong. Mr. Wong uncovers a smuggling ring on the waterfront of San Francisco and unmasks the killer, though not until several more murders occur. Staring...

The Master Key (1945)

The Master Key (1945)

The Master Key-1945-Part 1. Set in 1938 with Nazi agents kidnapping scientist Professor Ellwood Henderson in order to get his Orotron machine that can extract gold from seawater. Operating under the secret leadership of “The Master Key,” with the operatives headed by...

The Master Key (1945) trailer

The Master Key (1945) trailer

Set in 1938 with Nazi agents kidnapping scientist Professor Ellwood Henderson in order to get his Orotron machine that can extract gold from seawater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSQ_jw-XMRo

The Fighting Devil Dogs (1945)

The Fighting Devil Dogs (1945)

In Singapore, two Marine Lieutenants, Tom Grayson and Frank Corby, uncover the threat of a masked terrorist called The Lightning, who uses an arsenal of powerful lightning-based weaponry in his bid for world conquest. These electrical fireballs are similar to the Foo...

Adventures of Red Ryder (1940)

Adventures of Red Ryder (1940)

Mesquite banker Calvin Drake plans to profit from the Santa Fe Railroad’s acquisition of right-of-way by gaining control of the land in the territory. In the ensuing war of intimidation against the ranchers, Ira Withers is killed and Red Ryder and his father, Colonel...

Secret Agent X9 (1945)

Secret Agent X9 (1945)

On a neutral island in the Pacific called Shadow Island run by American gangster Lucky Kamber, both sides in World War II attempt to control the secret of Element 722, which can be used to create synthetic aviation fuel. The U.S. sends in Secret Agent X-9 to foil the...

Manhunt on Mystery Island (1945) trailer

Manhunt on Mystery Island (1945) trailer

A breakthrough scientific device will revolutionize the world's energy usage if the kidnapped creator can be found. To rescue her father, Claire Forrest enlists the help of private detective, Lance Reardon. Clues lead them to a remote Pacific isle known only as...

Scapolamine Shock (1946)

Scapolamine Shock (1946)

Starring Vincent Price and Lynn Bari. This is the first movie to show the effects of the powerful mind-control drug scopolamine. Scopolamine was used in Nazi Germany as an interrogation tool and is widely used by intelligence agencies around the world. Lynn Bari is an...

The Phantom (1943)

The Phantom (1943)

The Phantom is a 1943 Columbia Pictures 15 chapter black-and-white cliffhanger superhero serial, produced by Rudolph C. Flothow, directed B. Reeves Eason, and starring Tom Tyler in the title role. It is based on Lee Falk's comic strip The Phantom, first syndicated to...

The Green Hornet Strikes Again (1941)

The Green Hornet Strikes Again (1941)

A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide. Wealthy publisher Britt Reid and his trusted Korean valet and sidekick disguise themselves as the crime fighting vigilantes, The Green Hornet...

Manhunt in the African Jungle (1943)

Manhunt in the African Jungle (1943)

In a story-line very similar to Raiders of the Lost Ark, American agent Secret Service Agent Rex Bennett (Rod Cameron), along with British reporter Janet Blake (Joan Marsh) and Chief of Police Captain Pierre LaSalle (Duncan Renaldo) attempt to thwart the Nazis from...

Jack Armstrong: The All American Boy (1947)

Jack Armstrong: The All American Boy (1947)

John Hart stars as Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, who battles the evil Dr. Grood, who has placed a death ray aboard his spaceship orbiting Earth. In this exciting serial, Jack Armstrong and his friends attempt to rescue a renowned scientist, the inventor of a...

Captain Midnight (1942)

Captain Midnight (1942)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5w8EJv_o_E Secret Service Major Steel (Joseph W. Girard), is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright (Dave O'Brien) is also Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator dedicated to fighting gangsters and...

Nabonga (1944)

Nabonga (1944)

Nabonga-1944. Starring Buster Crabbe with Julie London in her first film role, is the story of young Ray Gorman who travels to Africa to try to track down the money embezzled from his father’s bank years earlier. After a long trek through the jungle Gorman finds the...

Jesse James Rides Again (1947) Part 2

Jesse James Rides Again (1947) Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeIKBECpH_0 Outlaw Jesse James and his friend, on the run from Missouri, ride into a town where a gang is trying to drive area ranchers off their land because there's oil underneath it. They take particular interest in the situation of...

Jesse James Rides Again (1947) Part 1

Jesse James Rides Again (1947) Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSiCK6exDHo Outlaw Jesse James and his friend, on the run from Missouri, ride into a town where a gang is trying to drive area ranchers off their land because there's oil underneath it. They take particular interest in the situation of...

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)

A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and...

Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)

Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)

On a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into the super-powered Captain Marvel by the wizard Shazam, who tells him his powers will last only as long as the Golden Scorpion idol is threatened. Finding the idol, the...

Red Ryder – Great Stage Coach Robbery (1945)

Red Ryder – Great Stage Coach Robbery (1945)

The story has Red Ryder and his aunt, The Duchess, operating a stage line in the 1890’s in Blue Springs. Con Hollister, released from prison and reformed, plans to return the $150,000 loot taken in a stagecoach holdup five years previous. Jed Quinlan, the brains...

Red Ryder Phantom of the Plains (1945)

Red Ryder Phantom of the Plains (1945)

Red Ryder and Little Beaver return to Blue Springs and learn that the Duchess, Red’s aunt, is going to sell her stagecoach line and marry a snooty Englishman Talbot Champneys, who is really Fancy Charlie, who has the nasty habit of marrying rich women and then killing...

Invisible Ghost (1941)

Invisible Ghost (1941)

Charles Kessler (Bela Lugosi) is plagued by homicidal urges. His wife (Betty Compson), who had left him for another man, gets into a car accident that leaves her brain damaged and is kept in a cellar in secret, by Kessler's gardener. When an innocent man is executed...

The Corpse Vanishes (1942)

The Corpse Vanishes (1942)

On the day of Alice Wentworth's wedding, mad scientist Dr. Lorenz sends the young bride an unusual orchid, the scent of which places the young woman in a state of suspended animation resembling death. He then spirits her body away to the basement laboratory of his...

The Devil Bat (1941)

The Devil Bat (1941)

Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members by instilling in the...

Enter the Lone Ranger (1948)

Enter the Lone Ranger (1948)

This is the original movie on the legend of the Lone Ranger, a mysterious man who hands out silver bullets. He is John Reid, the sole surviving Texas Ranger of a murderous ambush, who becomes the great masked hero with his companion, Tonto. Starring Clayton Moore and...

Bowery At Midnight Bela Lugosi (1942)

Bowery At Midnight Bela Lugosi (1942)

Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Karl Wagner uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders. When things get out of hand, Wagner kills his henchmen, who wind up as zombies in the cellar...

Blonde Savage (1947)

Blonde Savage (1947)

Diamond mine owner Mark Harper hires pilot Steve Blake (Leif Erickson) and his pal Hoppy Owens (Frank Jenks)to search for a hidden jungle village from which the natives have made trouble for his mine operations. They crash near the village and discover that Meelah...

Queen of the Amazons (1947)

Queen of the Amazons (1947)

Preston leads a party to India to investigate the disappearance of her fiance, Greg Jones, but someone manages to thwart their efforts through lies and murder. They pursue the trail to Africa where guide Gary Lambert and his comic cook Gabby guide them into unknown...

Under California Stars (1948)

Under California Stars (1948)

Roy has just finished his latest film and leaves for his ranch where he will be broadcasting a show celebrating his tenth year in movies. When Roy and Trigger arrive at his ranch he finds Cookie has hired his relatives. Caroline, the only relative that doesn't have a...

The Mad Monster (1942)

The Mad Monster (1942)

The mad scientist Dr. Cameron has succeeded in his experiments with a serum that will turn a man into a wolf-like monster, and is ready to avenge himself on the men who caused his professional failure. He uses it on his gardener Petro and one after the other is killed...

One Body Too Many (1944)

One Body Too Many (1944)

Insurance salesman Albert Tuttle arrives at the Cyrus J. Rutherford estate to sell the millionaire some life insurance. Rutherford is already dead and his heirs have gathered at the mansion to hear the reading of the will. Rutherford's will won't be read until he is...

The White Gorilla (1945)

The White Gorilla (1945)

A white gorilla is snubbed by black gorillas because he is the wrong color. Cut off from his tribe he becomes lonely and angry. After troubling hunters and natives, the white gorilla fights the king of the black gorillas while we are told by a narrator that the fate...

White Pongo (1945)

White Pongo (1945)

White Pongo (1945). Hunters and scientists venture into the jungle to track down a savage albino gorilla, which they believe could be the missing link between man and ape. Before Bigfoot there was White Pongo! With Richard Fraser, Maris Wrixon and Lionel Royce. A...

Sky Raiders (1941)

Sky Raiders (1941)

Former World War One ace Captain Bob Dayton (Donald Woods), with his buddy, Lieutenant Ed Carey (Robert Armstrong), operates Sky Raiders Inc., an airplane manufacturer. Dayton has perfected a fast pursuit plane intended for the U.S. Army. But Felix Lynx (Eduardo...

The Green Hornet (1940)

The Green Hornet (1940)

Britt Reid, publisher of The Sentinel newspaper, is secretly the vigilante crime fighter The Green Hornet. He and his Korean valet Kato investigate and expose several seemingly separate criminal rackets. This leads them into continued conflict with “the Chief,” the...

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)

Flash Gordon battles the Purple Death in this exciting movie edited from the serial. A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough,...

Black Dragons (1942)

Black Dragons (1942)

During World War II a secret society of American industrialists, all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort, are methodically murdered by the malevolent Monsieur Colomb (Bela Lugosi). It is only until detective Dick Martin is assigned to the case that...

The Perils of Pauline (1947)

The Perils of Pauline (1947)

The Perils of Pauline (1947) is a fictionalized Hollywood account of silent film star Pearl White's rise to fame. Pearl White (Betty Hutton) is a frustrated factory worker who aspires to become a dramatic actress. She joins a touring theatrical troupe managed by...

King of the Zombies (1941)

King of the Zombies (1941)

Zombies, Nazis and Mind Control all collide in this moody 40s thriller on a Caribbean Island with lots of very nasty things. The early telling of a secret island base for the use of the battling superpowers. The movie starts somewhere over the Caribbean during the...