They Made Me a Criminal 1939
A southpaw with a distinctive boxing style, New York based Johnnie Bradfield has just won the world boxing champion title. While he, to the public, portrays himself as wholesome, doting…
Lucky Night 1939
After initially encountering each other casually in the employment office, Bill Overton and Cora Johnson run into each other later that evening by happenstance on a park bench. Beyond each…
Four Wives 1939
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…
Calling Dr. Kildare 1939
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…
Stand Up and Fight 1939
It starts in 1844 in Maryland, where Robert Taylor, plantation owner with slaves, is forced by debts to sell his estate and his people. Then he leaves for Cumberland, looking…
Let’s Be Famous 1939
An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show. He…
Fifth Avenue Girl 1939
Troubled with union problems in his business and lonely on his birthday because his wife, Martha, is out with a playboy, millionaire Timothy Borden meets unemployed and hungry Mary Grey…
Hell’s Kitchen 1939
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…
Lady of the Tropics 1939
A party of yachting jet-setters visit French Saigon, where they meet lovely Manon deVargnes, a second-class citizen not allowed to leave the country due to her part-Oriental ancestry. When the…
Bachelor Mother 1939
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin’s Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly’s unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the…
Confessions of a Nazi Spy 1939
Prior to the United States entry into World War II, Nazi spies try to steal American military secrets. Among those whose passions are roused is Kurt Schneider who was court-martialed…
Q Planes 1939
Experimental aircraft of several countries are mysteriously vanishing during test flights over the sea. The latest is British, and Hammond of the Secret Service, comical but competent, investigates undercover. Also…
Tarzan Finds a Son! 1939
A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five…
Mr. Moto’s Last Warning 1939
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr…
Invisible Stripes 1939
Cliff Taylor (George Raft) and Chuck Martin (Humphrey Bogart) leave prison together. Cliff tries the straight life but falls back into crime with Chuck and his gang. When he makes…
Society Dog Show 1939
Pluto’s in a dog show against lots of snooty, high-society dogs. While Mickey’s chasing after a dropped can, Pluto is making eyes at the dog next door. Pluto’s turn for…
Beach Picnic 1939
Donald Duck is at the beach and tries to ride a rubber horse. He notices Pluto sleeping at the shore and decides to have some fun with him by sending…
Idiot’s Delight 1939
When song-and-dance man Harry Van returns from World War I, he finds work hard to come by. His greatest success comes as straight man in a phony vaudeville mind-reading act…
Midnight 1939
Showgirl Eve, stranded in Paris without a sou, befriends taxi driver Tibor Czerny, then gives him the slip to crash a party. There she meets Helene Flammarion and her gigolo…
Sea Scouts 1939
Donald has a large sailboat, and his crew consists of his three nephews. But between his own clumsiness, and that of his inexperienced (but not mean) crew, the sailing is…
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…
I grandi magazzini 1939
The Cisco Kid and the Lady 1939
Just as Harbison kills a miner, Cisco and Gordito arrive and the dying miner rips his map into three pieces. Harbison tries to get the other two pieces but Cisco…
Juarez 1939
The newly-named Emperor Maximillian, the only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire, arrives in Mexico in the early 1860s with his wife Carlotta to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juarez…
Swanee River 1939
More fictional than factual biography of Stephen Foster. Songwriter from Pittsburgh falls in love with the South, marries a Southern gal (Leeds), then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil…
The Great Man Votes 1939
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…
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island 1939
A novelist friend of Charlie’s appears to have committed suicide. At the international Exposition held on San Francisco Bay’s Treasure Island Charlie shows that Zodiac, a phony mystic who blackmails…
Blackwell’s Island 1939
In a fictional version of true events at the New York prison of Blackwell’s Island in 1934, reporter Tim Haydon breaks up a crime organization run by racketeer Bull Bransom…
Blackmail 1939
John Ingram of Oklahoma has a loving family, loves his work fighting oil fires, and is good at it. But 9 years ago, under another name he escaped from a…
Trouble Brewing 1939
George has won a lot of money at the races but he’s paid with counterfeit money. He sets about tracking down the criminals himself.
The Man in the Iron Mask 1939
D’Artagnan and the musketeers are the only ones who know of the existence of a twin brother, and Fouquet uses his influence to keep everyone silenced. The main story was…
Desperate Trails 1939
Following 1939’s “The Phantom Stage”, the last of 12 series westerns made at Universal by Trem Carr and Paul Malvern starring Bob Baker, Universal kicked off a new series of…
Three Smart Girls Grow Up 1939
Now that their parents are back together, the Craig girls think life is going to be easy. It is, until Kay falls in love with Joan’s fiance! Complications arise when…
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery 1939
During a charity soccer match between top professional side Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan’s new star player collapses. When he dies, Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is…
The Old Maid 1939
After a two-year absence, Clem Spender returns home on the very day that his former fiancée, Delia, is marrying another man. Clem enlists in the Union army and dies on…
Three Texas Steers 1939
Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she’s never visited, but for sentimental reasons won’t sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly in league with Abbott, sabotage the…
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell 1939
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put…