Year 1939
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1. Over the Moon (1939)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy
Young Jane Benson (Merle Oberon) just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis (Sir Rex Harrison), she suggests ... See full summary »
Directors: Thornton Freeland, William K. Howard | Stars: Merle Oberon, Rex Harrison, Ursula Jeans, Robert Douglas
Votes: 307
2. Second Fiddle (1939)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A studio publicist discovers a Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallee, Edna May Oliver
Votes: 543
3. Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939)
Passed | 58 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Torchy Blane has to solve a blackmail case.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, Henry O'Neill
Votes: 457
4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
Passed | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
To avoid his abusive father, a rambunctious boy rafts the Mississippi River with a slave, encountering many wild characters.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Walter Connolly, William Frawley, Rex Ingram
Votes: 1,407
5. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
The master sleuth hunts his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, who is planning the crime of the century.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino, Alan Marshal
Votes: 7,468
6. Allegheny Uprising (1939)
Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1759, in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Valley, local settlers and Indian fighters try to persuade the British authorities to ban the trading of alcohol and arms with the marauding Indians.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, George Sanders, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 1,801
7. The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary--or is he married to his job? For every time he has a date with his longtime fiancée,... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Clarence Kolb, Ruth Donnelly
Votes: 620
8. Ambush (1939)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Bank secretary Jane Hartman recognizes the truck as one on which her ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Gladys Swarthout, Lloyd Nolan, William Henry, William Frawley
Votes: 69
9. Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems after he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
Votes: 705
10. Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Romance
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life, but he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, Bernard Punsly, Leo Gorcey
Votes: 572
11. Another Thin Man (1939)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
An explosives manufacturer suspects a young man is out to kill him. He calls in new parents Nick and Nora to sort things out.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger
Votes: 8,165 | Gross: $3.32M
12. The Arizona Kid (1939)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Music, Western
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Sally March, Stuart Hamblen
Votes: 242
13. The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Sport
When a star player drops dead during a charity football match between Arsenal and amateur side the Trojans, Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in to solve the crime.
Director: Thorold Dickinson | Stars: Leslie Banks, Greta Gynt, Ian McLean, Liane Linden
Votes: 708
14. At the Circus (1939)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Musical
The Marx Brothers try to help the owner of a circus recover some stolen funds before he finds himself out of a job.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kenny Baker
Votes: 6,468
15. Babes in Arms (1939)
Unrated | 94 min | Comedy, Musical
A group of vaudevillians struggling to compete with talkies hits the road hoping for a comeback. Frustrated to be left behind, all of their kids put on a show themselves to raise money for the families and to prove they've got talent, too.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 2,849
16. Bachelor Mother (1939)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Romance
An unemployed woman discovers an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage, and accepts an offer to take responsibility for the child in return for a job.
Director: Garson Kanin | Stars: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn, Frank Albertson
Votes: 4,610
17. Back Door to Heaven (1939)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama
Little Frankie Rogers lives on the wrong side of the tracks; his father is a drunkard and his mother is unable to support the family. After stealing a harmonica to play in his grammar ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Jimmy Lydon, Anita Magee, Raymond Roe, William Redfield
Votes: 187
18. Bad Lands (1939)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Western
A posse of nine and Sheriff Bill Cummings set out after a renegade named Apache Jack, who has murdered the wife of Lopez, one of the posse members. The others are Rayburn, Chic Lyman, Billy... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Robert Barrat, Noah Beery Jr., Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Andy Clyde
Votes: 211
19. Bad Little Angel (1939)
Approved | 72 min | Drama
A Bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Virginia Weidler, Gene Reynolds, Guy Kibbee, Ian Hunter
Votes: 308
20. Balalaika (1939)
Approved | 102 min | Musical, Romance
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
Director: Reinhold Schünzel | Stars: Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, Charles Ruggles, Frank Morgan
Votes: 356 | Gross: $0.25M
21. Barricade (1939)
Approved | 71 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In China in the 1930s a singer (Faye) and journalist (Baxter) meet on a train attacked by bandits.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Alice Faye, Warner Baxter, Charles Winninger, Arthur Treacher
Votes: 157
22. Beau Geste (1939)
Passed | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 6,524
23. Beauty for the Asking (1939)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Denny drops fiancée Jean and marries Flora who is worth ten million dollars. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. She goes to Jeffrey and he ... See full summary »
Director: Glenn Tryon | Stars: Lucille Ball, Patric Knowles, Donald Woods, Frieda Inescort
Votes: 411
24. Beware Spooks! (1939)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A bumbling detective chases an escaped convict in an amusement park haunted house.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Mary Carlisle, Clarence Kolb, Marc Lawrence
Votes: 80
25. The Big Guy (1939)
Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Jackie Cooper, Ona Munson, Peggy Moran
Votes: 33
26. Blackmail (1939)
Passed | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
John Ingram, successful oil field firefighter, is really a chain gang escapee. Someone out of his past finds him.
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart, Bobs Watson
Votes: 860
27. Blackwell's Island (1939)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In 1934, a New York reporter infiltrates a crime syndicate by befriending its boss who is serving time inside Blackwell Island prison.
Directors: William C. McGann, Michael Curtiz | Stars: John Garfield, Rosemary Lane, Dick Purcell, Victor Jory
Votes: 511
28. Blind Alley (1939)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Gangster Hal Wilson takes psychiatrist Dr. Shelby hostage. While captive, the doctor analyzes Wilson as though he were a patient.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Dvorak, Joan Perry
Votes: 817
29. Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Family
A salesman convinces Blondie that Baby Dumpling is a budding genius, so the Bumsteads enroll him in a special school from which he disappears.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy
Votes: 412
30. Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Family, Music
Blondie takes over Dagwood's job while he goes off on a fishing trip.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Jonathan Hale
Votes: 407
31. Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939)
Passed | 69 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings. Among other things, arson threatens.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy
Votes: 424
32. Blue Montana Skies (1939)
Passed | 56 min | Drama, Music, Western
Autry follows a clue written on a rock by a dead man to get to a smuggling operation near the Canadian border.
Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Harry Woods
Votes: 104
33. Boy Slaves (1939)
Passed | 72 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A runaway follows the leader of a gang of boys, and they all wind up working in a turpentine camp.
Director: P.J. Wolfson | Stars: Anne Shirley, Roger Daniel, James McCallion, Alan Baxter
Votes: 246
34. Broadway Serenade (1939)
Passed | 114 min | Drama
Mary Hale, a singer, and Jimmy Seymour, a pianist/composer, are a showbiz couple working in The Big Apple in small nightclubs hoping to hit it big. One night, Broadway producer Larry Bryant... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Lew Ayres, Ian Hunter, Frank Morgan
Votes: 286
35. Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939)
Approved | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A bank robbery in London prevents - again - the marriage of Bulldog Drummond and his girlfriend. But this time, after the robbers are caught, it will be celebrated at last.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner, Reginald Denny
Votes: 524
Bulldog Drummond's secret police?
36. Burn 'Em Up O'Connor (1939)
Approved | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A series of identical accidents kills racing drivers, but a dim-witted mechanic suspects they were not accidents.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Cecilia Parker, Nat Pendleton, Harry Carey
Votes: 156
37. Cafe Society (1939)
83 min | Comedy, Romance
A wealthy young lady marries a reporter on a bet, but things might not work out so well when he finds out the truth.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Shirley Ross, Jessie Ralph
Votes: 114
38. Call a Messenger (1939)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama
A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. He finds that he likes it, and when his ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Robert Armstrong, Mary Carlisle
Votes: 50
39. Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Dr. Gillespie tries to teach Jimmy Kildare a lesson by tossing him into a street clinic. Only Kildare gets called to take a bullet out of a suspected murderer, and when the cops collar him ... See full summary »
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 583
40. Captain Fury (1939)
Passed | 92 min | Western
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landowner.
Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Brian Aherne, Victor McLaglen, Paul Lukas, June Lang
Votes: 324
41. The Cat and the Canary (1939)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
When an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, John Beal, Douglass Montgomery
Votes: 3,769
42. Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)
Passed | 74 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Charlie's investigation of a phony psychic during the 1939 World Exposition on San Francisco's Treasure Island leads him to expose a suicide as murder.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Sidney Toler, Cesar Romero, Pauline Moore, Victor Sen Yung
Votes: 1,879
Charlie Chan in City in Darkness?
43. Charlie Chan in Reno (1939)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
Mary Whitman, an old friend of Charlie's in Reno for a divorce, finds herself accused of murdering the woman her husband planned to marry after the decree became final.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Sidney Toler, Ricardo Cortez, Phyllis Brooks, Slim Summerville
Votes: 1,514
44. Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd, Robert Cummings
Votes: 103
45. Coast Guard (1939)
Passed | 72 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Randolph Scott, Frances Dee, Ralph Bellamy, Walter Connolly
Votes: 133
46. Code of the Secret Service (1939)
Passed | 58 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Brass is assigned to uncovering a counterfeiting ring that has stolen bona fide treasury plates and is converting $1 bills to $100 bills through a Mexican casino.
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Rosella Towne, Eddie Foy Jr., Moroni Olsen
Votes: 328
47. Colorado Sunset (1939)
Passed | 65 min | Western
Gene and his buddies discover that the ranch they bought is really a dairy farm. And worse, it's subject to intimidation from a protection racket that prevents dairy products from safely reaching the market.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Barbara Pepper
Votes: 121
48. Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, War
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-war espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, George Sanders, Francis Lederer, Paul Lukas
Votes: 2,136
49. Conspiracy (1939)
Approved | 58 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Radio officer Kendall discovers seaman Carlson sending unauthorized messages. Carlson is killed, and Kendall flees ashore, meeting Carlson's sister Nedra, part of a sabotage ring. Nedra seeks help as both saboteurs pursue Kendall.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Allan Lane, Linda Hayes, Robert Barrat, Charley Foy
Votes: 191
50. Dark Victory (1939)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she'll meet her final days with dignity.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Votes: 12,405
51. Daughters Courageous (1939)
Approved | 107 min | Drama, Romance
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: John Garfield, Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, Fay Bainter
Votes: 753
52. Days of Jesse James (1939)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Music, Western
A bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Don 'Red' Barry, Pauline Moore
Votes: 290
53. Day-Time Wife (1939)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Warren William, Binnie Barnes
Votes: 790
54. Destry Rides Again (1939)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Western
Deputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger
Votes: 12,556 | Gross: $0.35M
55. The Devil's Daughter (1939)
Approved | 52 min | Drama, Horror
Sylvia Walton returns from Harlem to take over a Jamaican plantation from her vindictive half-sister, amid the growing sound of drums.
Director: Arthur H. Leonard | Stars: Nina Mae McKinney, Jack Carter, Ida James, Hamtree Harrington
Votes: 334
56. Disbarred (1939)
Approved | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears that he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to be without an income and ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Gail Patrick, Robert Preston, Otto Kruger, Sidney Toler
Votes: 55
57. Disputed Passage (1939)
Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance, War
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 Japanese bombing raid.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff, John Howard, Judith Barrett
Votes: 161
58. Dodge City (1939)
Approved | 104 min | Western
A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 5,765
59. Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War
Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Eddie Collins
Votes: 6,791 | Gross: $1.00M
60. Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
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 a fight between them, resulting... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh
Votes: 960
61. Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A corrupt D.A. (Thurston Hall) with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter (James Cagney) for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan, George Bancroft
Votes: 3,734
62. East Side of Heaven (1939)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Family, Music
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Bing Crosby, Joan Blondell, Mischa Auer, Irene Hervey
Votes: 299
63. Espionage Agent (1939)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to root out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall, Jeffrey Lynn, George Bancroft
Votes: 467
64. Eternally Yours (1939)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Anita Halstead, swept off her feet by magician Arturo, finds the results less than magical.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Loretta Young, David Niven, Hugh Herbert, Billie Burke
Votes: 879 | Gross: $0.18M
65. Everything Happens at Night (1939)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Drama
Two competing reporters fall in love with the daughter of a Nobel Prize winner living in hiding.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Sonja Henie, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, Maurice Moscovitch
Votes: 254
66. Ex-Champ (1939)
Approved | 64 min | Drama
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Tom Brown, Nan Grey, William Frawley
Votes: 20
67. The Face at the Window (1939)
Approved | 65 min | Drama, Horror
Set in France in 1880. A series of murders is attributed to a Wolf Man.
Director: George King | Stars: Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Aubrey Mallalieu, Marjorie Taylor
Votes: 760
68. Fast and Furious (1939)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Rare book dealers Joel and Garda take a summertime jaunt to the seashore where he becomes involved in a beauty pageant as investor and judge - much to her chagrin.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey, Lee Bowman
Votes: 876
69. Fast and Loose (1939)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Mystery, Crime
Rare booksellers Joel and Garda Sloane are engaged to find who is stealing rare books from a private library.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Reginald Owen, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 700
70. Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
Feeling unwanted by his wife and children, a wealthy industrialist hires an unemployed young woman to pose as his mistress.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, James Ellison
Votes: 1,795
71. First Love (1939)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
An orphaned boarding school graduate secretly attends a prestigious ball, where she falls for the boyfriend of her snobbish cousin.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette, Helen Parrish
Votes: 763
72. Five Came Back (1939)
Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine
Votes: 2,359
73. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939)
Passed | 58 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
The Peppers - Mrs. Pepper and her five children Polly, Ben, Joey, Davie and Phronsie - are a poor family (the six of them sleep in a total of four beds in two rooms), but they love each ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Edith Fellows, Clarence Kolb, Dorothy Peterson, Ronald Sinclair
Votes: 252
74. The Flying Deuces (1939)
Approved | 69 min | Comedy, Family, War
Ollie has fallen in love with the innkeeper's daughter in Paris. The only problem - she's very much in love with her husband. To forget her he joins the Foreign Legion with Stan. Bad idea.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 5,740
75. The Flying Irishman (1939)
Approved | 71 min | Biography, Drama
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded... See full summary »
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Douglas Corrigan, Paul Kelly, Robert Armstrong, Gene Reynolds
Votes: 164
76. The Forgotten Woman (1939)
67 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory.
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Sigrid Gurie, William Lundigan, Eve Arden, Donald Briggs
Votes: 15
77. The Four Feathers (1939)
Passed | 129 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A British Army officer resigns, burning his last-day summons to war in the Sudan. Accusing him of cowardice, his girlfriend and three friends give him white feathers. To gain redemption, he shadows his friends to save their lives.
Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, June Duprez
Votes: 6,592
78. Four Wives (1939)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, Romance
Three of the four musically inclined daughters of Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, are settling into their lives as wives, but not all is well. Thea Lemp has long ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Gale Page
Votes: 729 | Gross: $0.36M
79. Frontier Marshal (1939)
Approved | 71 min | Drama, Western
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, Cesar Romero, Binnie Barnes
Votes: 1,034
80. Frontier Pony Express (1939)
Approved | 58 min | Western
As Yankee and Rebel forces contend for the allegiance of California, Pony Express rider Roy and his sidekick must round up a pack of villains before Roy can turn his attentions to the girl.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Edward Keane
Votes: 124
81. Full Confession (1939)
Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama
A Catholic priest by the name of Father Loma must convince a man to step forward to save an innocent man from being sent to the electric chair.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Sally Eilers, Joseph Calleia, Barry Fitzgerald
Votes: 230
82. Geronimo (1939)
Passed | 89 min | Western
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Preston Foster, Ellen Drew, Andy Devine, William Henry
Votes: 173
83. The Girl from Mexico (1939)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
An advertising executive goes to Mexico looking for talent and finds a hot-tempered singer, who goes to New York to stay with him, his aunt and uncle, and decides to steal him from his fiancée.
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Lupe Velez, Donald Woods, Leon Errol, Linda Hayes
Votes: 353
84. Golden Boy (1939)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A poor young Italian man who is a virtuoso on the violin wishes to become a champion boxer to make a fortune for his family. But what is the road to success and happiness, and what is the price?
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, William Holden, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 2,181
85. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Unrated | 114 min | Drama, Romance
An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.
Directors: Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin | Stars: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills
Votes: 11,592
86. Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Midwesterner waitress, scheming to gold-dig her way to Paris, gets mixed up with a wealthy New York family.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Walter Connolly, Alan Curtis
Votes: 594
87. The Gorilla (1939)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Horror
When a wealthy man is threatened by a killer known as The Gorilla, he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. A real escaped gorilla shows up at the mansion just as the investigators arrive.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: The Ritz Brothers, Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz, Al Ritz
Votes: 1,672
88. The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder. Allen's uncle fixes her up with Bill at a company picnic. When the two go out to a ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Gracie Allen, Warren William, Ellen Drew, Kent Taylor
Votes: 256
89. The Great Man Votes (1939)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him for what ... See full summary »
Director: Garson Kanin | Stars: John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler, Katharine Alexander
Votes: 646
90. The Great Victor Herbert (1939)
Approved | 91 min | Biography, Music, Musical
A fictionalized version of famous opera composer Victor Herbert where he witnesses the romance, stardom, parenthood, and troubled experiences of his star singers.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Allan Jones, Mary Martin, Walter Connolly, Lee Bowman
Votes: 133 | Gross: $0.30M
91. Gulliver's Travels (1939)
Passed | 76 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A doctor washes ashore on an island inhabited by little people.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky, Orestes Calpini, Roland Crandall, William Henning, Winfield Hoskins, Thomas Johnson, Frank Kelling, Seymour Kneitel, Robert G. Leffingwell, Grim Natwick, Tom Palmer | Stars: Jessica Dragonette, Lanny Ross, Pinto Colvig, Cal Howard
Votes: 4,851 | Gross: $7.13M
92. Gunga Din (1939)
Approved | 117 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Votes: 12,801
93. The Hardys Ride High (1939)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Family
Judge Hardy and family travel to Detroit to claim an inheritance where they experience life as millionaires and learn the cost of riding high.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
Votes: 470
94. Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939)
Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
New York store clerk (Ford) joins a hobo (Conte) and an illegal immigrant (Rogers) heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
Director: Ricardo Cortez | Stars: Jean Rogers, Raymond Walburn, Marjorie Rambeau, Glenn Ford
Votes: 402
95. Hell's Kitchen (1939)
Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A group of tough city kids have 'graduated' from reform school and are assigned to a "Boy's Town" type of inmate self-government city shelter. The shelter is run by Hiram Krispan (Grant ... See full summary »
Directors: Ewald André Dupont, Lewis Seiler | Stars: The Dead End Kids, Margaret Lindsay, Ronald Reagan, Stanley Fields
Votes: 386
96. Henry Goes Arizona (1939)
Passed | 66 min | Western, Comedy, Drama
An actor from New York inherits a ranch in Arizona.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Frank Morgan, Virginia Weidler, Guy Kibbee, Slim Summerville
Votes: 243
97. Hitler: Beast of Berlin (1939)
Approved | 87 min | Drama, War
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Roland Drew, Steffi Duna, Greta Granstedt, Alan Ladd
Votes: 161
98. Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, History
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 her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Directors: Irving Cummings, Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Alan Curtis
Votes: 455
99. Home on the Prairie (1939)
Passed | 59 min | Drama, Music, Western
Border inspector Gene makes certain no diseased animals make it into the United States.
Director: Jack Townley | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, George Cleveland
Votes: 121
100. Homicide Bureau (1939)
Approved | 58 min | Action, Crime, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Rita Hayworth, Marc Lawrence, Richard Fiske
Votes: 222
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