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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.