The Great McGinty (1940)

Summary: Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.

Release Date: August 23, 1940

Genre: Comedy

Director: Preston Sturges

Writer: Preston Sturges

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: MCA/Universal Pictures, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 350,000

20 Mule Team (1940)

Summary: In California's Death Valley, in 1892, Borax ore miners scratch a hard living until a map pinpointing the location of high-grade Borax ore surfaces, sending prospectors and crooks alike into a gold-rush-like frenzy.

Release Date: May 03, 1940

Genre: Western

Director: Richard Thorpe

Writers: Owen Atkinson

, Robert C. DuSoe

, Cyril Hume

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

You Can't Take It with You (1938)

Summary: The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.

Release Date: September 29, 1938

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Frank Capra