The Best Movies Of 1939

Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.

When American newsreel cameraman stationed in Paris is sent to cover an Arab rebellion he finds a financier presumed dead but actually fomenting desert warfare.

During his first day of school, Baby Dumpling disappears from sight. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spent a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich gir...

There is a drama about the relationship between a mother and her daughters.

The brothers kidnapped Tom in order to get Jim Martin to sell his ranch. Bob Burke gets help from the Riders of the Sage when he goes after him alone.

Spoiled upperclass girl Marianne speeds through a small village and crashes her sportscar into the house of the local vicar. Opposites attract but what will the locals think?

In the early 19th Century, a young woman discovers that she's living with a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking for profit.

A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison...

The state of New York was founded in the 17th century. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness a...

South western Pennsylvania was part of colonial America. The British government is starting to be disliked. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles.

One of the sons of Frankenstein finds his father's monster in a coma and revives him, only to discover that he is controlled by Ygor, who is bent on revenge.

Hong Kong ghost / horror.

In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Lincoln establis...

On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds that Sherlock Holmes is there to investigate the loca...

The owner of a small circus owes his partner thousands of dollars. Carter allows his associates to steal the money so that he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circ...

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

A happily married woman allows her catty friends to talk her into a divorce when her husband strays.

Simon Templer was mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who had murdered and robbed an European count of one million pounds. He is aided reluctantly by Scotland Yard inspector Teal, who is convinced ...

After World War I, Lloyd Hart went back to practice law, George Hally became a bootlegger, and Eddie Bartlett became a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor. Geor...

Hardworking Minnie (Cora Green) marries "Dollar" Bill (Bud Harris) a shady gambler after her money and her attractive daughter, Sue (Izanetta Wilcois). Sue meanwhile, is in love with Bob (Carl Hough),...

The ancient Egypt is the location for this entry in the TravelTalks series. The entrance to the tomb of King Tut is shown in the beginning of the Valley of the Kings, but the treasure is now in the Ca...

Danger has a special sparkle when Mr. Moto heads to Puerto Rico to put a stop to the glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market! But his smuggling investigation quickly tur...

The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for something that is going to be worthless. They were captured before they could warn the ranchers.

The Man From Montreal is a lively entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine action series. The stars are cast respectively as fur trapper Clark Manning and constable Bones Blair, who carry on a f...

A new fighter plane is being manufactured at the Radex Airplane Factory, and Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil the spies.

A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.

The story takes place in a Soviet placed in what is now Ukraine. A mechanic arrives in the Soviet, lead by a young independent woman driving tractors and, between many comedy sketches and propaganda m...

Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to "finish off" his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. ...

Jeune Filles en Detresse (Young Girls in Distress) was director G. W. Pabst's last French production before his (ill-timed) return to Nazi-occupied Austria in 1941. Somewhat reminiscent of Maedchen in...

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers. One day, Mr. A ragged little boy called "Heathcliff" was brought with Earnshaw back from the city. Hindley resents the child, but he becomes companion and soulmate...

A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.

A mobster's moll (Joan Bennett) leads a newsman (Adolphe Menjou), cub reporter (John Hubbard) and photographer to a scoop.

The film is the first in the series. Christian is a series starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.

After his two brothers are captured, the third little pig invents a machine to capture the big bad wolf.

The mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff is the one who gets the job when a tough western town needs help.

Harsh Parisian judge Gaetan (known as Monsieur Maximum), chafing in the idleness of retirement, leaves for a seaside holiday. But Gabriel the chauffeur has his mind on his girl, not the car; Gaetan an...

A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.

In the film, a little girl searches for her father who was reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

Niles and Carol Nelson are married and have two children. Carol takes the fall after Gurney exploits them and kills Niles. He kidnapped writer Bill Forrest to write his biography. Carol is aware that ...

Young Andy is in love with his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time with his pretty teacher as possible. Judge Ha...

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performi...

A spunky young bellhop investigates the murder of a hotel guest.

A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.

According to Hollywood, the parents were generally at fault when good kids went bad. This theory is elucidated in Columbia's Parents on Trial, wherein strict disciplinarian James Westley (Henry Kolker...

After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violati...

Short musical subject featuring the work of composer Hoagy Carmichael performed by him and featuring Jack Teagarden and his Orchestra, as well as vocalist Meredith Blake.