Movies released in 1939

Island of Lost Men

67/100

An altered remake of 1933's "White Woman," finds cabaret-singer Kim Ling, daughter of a Chinese general who has been accused of absconding with government funds, arriving in the Straits ... See full summary »

Shipyard Sally

67/100

A music hall performer manages the saloon her father bought. The clientèle includes unemployed shipyard workers who she entertains and helps.

Boys' Reformatory

52/100

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 doctor.

St. Louis Blues

65/100

A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans to put together a musical revue... See full summary »

Aktivistit

53/100

In 1916, Finland is still a part of Russian Empire. Eugen Schauman murders the governor of Finland, and his fellow activists take on smaller tasks in the fight for freedom.

The Fighting Renegade

52/100

El Puma, a Mexican desert guide, escorts an archaeological expedition headed by Professor Lucious Lloyd (Forrest Taylor through the Indian badlands of Mexico. Marian (Joyce Bryant (I)'), ... See full summary »

Wilton's Zoo

66/100

Twelve year old Jan Grovers spends more time in the alleys of Rotterdam than with his family (though he occasionally looks after his tree younger sisters, all of whom are called Mientje). ... See full summary »

Mystery of the White Room

61/100

In the middle of an eye-surgery operation in a large hospital, the lights in the operating room go out and the chief surgeon is murdered. It is the job of Police-Detective Spencer to figure... See full summary »

Das große Leben

73/100

Meet Dr. Christian

62/100

A pleasant down-home entry which casts Hersholt as the title doctor in the mythical town of Rivers End, Minnesota.

Takki ja liivit pois!

49/100

Bachelor's Paradise

63/100

Marriage license official Hugo gets his second divorce, and his new landlady is trying to lure him into his third marriage...

Eteenpäin - elämään

49/100

Lapatossu ja Vinski olympia-kuumeessa

42/100

The Stranger from Texas

62/100

With fences cut and livestock disappearing, Jeff Browning suspects his new neighbor, Dan Murdock. Sheriff Fletcher appeals to the U.S. Marshal for help, and Tom Murdock, Dan's son, is sent.... See full summary »

Long Shot

62/100

Ja tu rzadze

70/100

Cavalcade of Love

59/100

A triple love story stopped each time by low material interests.

The Reluctant Grandfather

62/100

Two Thoroughbreds

57/100

A group of gangsters steal the valuable brood-mare "Larkspur" from the Conway Ranch in Arizona. The mare's three-month-old colt tries to follow its dam, but is outdistanced. The lost colt ... See full summary »

Beware Spooks!

63/100

A bumbling detective chases an escaped convict in an amusement park haunted house.

Scouts to the Rescue

64/100

Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial (made in that short two-year span of time when they chose to be identified as The New Universal) is ... See full summary »

Príklady táhnou

73/100

20,000 Men a Year

69/100

Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.

Timber Stampede

60/100

The cattlemen graze their cattle in the big pines, but the railroad wants to clear cut the land and sell the timber for profit. Then they can sell the land to another railroad and make a ... See full summary »