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The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney films Pinocchio and Fantasia.
The top ten 1940 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
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1 | Boom Town | MGM | $3,664,000[1] |
2 | The Great Dictator | United Artists | $3,500,000[2] |
3 | Rebecca | United Artists/Selznick International | $3,000,000[3] |
4 | North West Mounted Police | Paramount | $2,750,000[4] |
5 | Strike Up the Band | MGM | $2,265,000[1] |
6 | Northwest Passage | $2,169,000[1] | |
7 | Andy Hardy Meets Debutante | $1,945,000[1] | |
8 | The Fighting 69th | Warner Bros. | $1,822,000[5] |
9 | Santa Fe Trail | $1,748,000[5] | |
10 | Kitty Foyle | RKO | $1,710,000[6][7] |
United States unless stated
United States unless stated
Although his most successful films of the war years were Selznick pictures – Rebecca (with a domestic box office gross of $3 million) and Spellbound ($4.9 million), with Rebecca also winning the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1940 – Hitchcock seems on the whole to have preferred his other assignments where he evidently enjoyed greater creative freedom.