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Tower of London (1939)
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King…
City in Darkness (1939)
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even…
Raffles (1939)
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the…
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
British Intelligence (1939)
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with…
Law of the Pampas (1939)
Hoppy and Lucky are headed to South America to deliver a heard of cattle. Bay guy Ralph Merritt gets in their way. For a while.
The Flying Deuces (1939)
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she’s already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get…
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds…
Disputed Passage (1939)
A doctor’s medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a…
Beware Spooks! (1939)
A bumbling detective chases an escaped convict in an amusement park haunted house in Coney Island.
Smashing the Money Ring (1939)
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
Sabotage (1939)
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at…
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of…
Babes in Arms (1939)
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and…
Eternally Yours (1939)
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she’s his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour….
Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter’s talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall…
One Mother’s Family (1939)
A mother hen is taking her brood for a walk. They encounter obstacles along the way, such as traffic. There’s one clumsy chick who repeatedly has more trouble than the…
Rio (1939)
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a…
The Real Glory (1939)
Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous attacks of the ruthless Alisang and his…
Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman’s daughter leads to…
Blackmail (1939)
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
Golden Boy (1939)
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He’s successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try…
Dick Tracy’s G-Men (1939)
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can…
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
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….
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)
Charlie Chan’s investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and…
Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local…
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter’s criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the…
In Name Only (1939)
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
Island of Lost Men (1939)
A Chinese general’s daughter tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant’s jungle empire.
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick…
In Old Monterey (1939)
The U.S. Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there.
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
A famous concert pianist unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness falls in love with a waitress.
Lady of the Tropics (1939)
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
Miracles for Sale (1939)
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
New Frontier (1939)
The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which, unbeknownst to our goodguys, is going to be worthless. They are captured before they…
Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl “Captain J”…
The Cowboy Quarterback (1939)
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won’t leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up…
Frontier Marshal (1939)
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.