Top 10 Films of 1940

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Top 3 Musicals of 1940

1. "Strike Up The Band" (Busby Berkeley, MGM)

2. "It's a Date" (William A. Seiter, Universal)

3. "Down Argentine Way" (Irving Cummings, 20th-Fox)

Fantasia (1940) *****

Der Postmeister (1940) ****

Excellent adaptation of a short story by Alexander Pushkin, set in tsarist Russia, but produced in Nazi Germany and directed by an illegitimate son of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. It won the Mussolini Cup for Best Picture at the Venice Film Festival.

L'Assedio dell'Alcazar (1940) ***

Italian film about the siege of Alcazar in Toledo during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Impressive battle scenes, especially near the end. Winner of the Mussolini Cup for Best Italian Film at the Venice Film Festival.

Boom Town (1940) ***

Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Claudette Colbert star in this exciting drama about oil miners.

La Fille de puisatier (1940) ***

Falschmünzer (1940) ***

Kleider machen Leute (1940) ***

Aatamin puvussa - ja vähän Eevankin (1940) ***

Sexy comedy from Finland. It's available here.

Vy neznate Alberta (1940) ***

Wonderful musical comedy starring Jara Kohout. Probably the best Czech film of the 1940's.

My Universities (1940) ***

The final part of the trilogy.

Arise My Love (1940) ***

Written by Billy Wilder, a prequel of sorts to "Casablanca".

Zlota maska (1940) ***

Polish melodrama about a butcher's daughter who first becomes a famous dancer and then marries a bankrupt aristocrat.

A Man Gone Astray (1940) ***

The film is available here.

Travelling Actors (1940) ***

Arizona (1940) ***

Sportowiec mimo woli (1940) ***

Pan Czwartek (kanadyjski hokeista) pomylony zostaje z panem Piatkiem (warszawskim fryzjerem). Zabawna komedia Mieczyslawa Krawicza, rozgrywajaca sie w Zakopanym. Film nakrecony zostal w 1939 roku, ale wpuszczony na ekrany dopiero w maju 1940 roku. Piosenki Henryka Warsa:

"Na czesc mlodosci"  **
"Przyjdzie dzien"  **