1939 Movies

The film gives a strong view of the everyday life of Icelanders when the film is shot, but that year was a record year for the export of herring produ...

A confidence man pretending to be a mentalist swindles a family.

Scrappy is running a nursery in a department store where parents can drop their children off while they shop. A gangster drops off his bratty twins fo...

In the 1940s, a group of people on the mission of Japanese intelligence carried out sabotage activities against the revolutionaries. In this complicat...

A melodrama about a self-sacrificing mother who, after her husband is struck by lightning, has to raise her three sons and one daughter alone. She buy...

Short film made for the German Reichspost in order to inform the public about television. It uses a documentary-like depiction of a police investigati...

Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the...

Animated film about the friend of all the Moscow children, the giant Uncle Stepa.

George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio holds up the company payroll car. And that is because...

It's the opening of the Cherokee strip and the Rankins are after a particular section. Frazier is also after the same section and has hired outlaws to...

Part of the Melody Masters series (1938-1939 season) #11 where Dave Apollon and His Club Casanova Orchestra does their comedy and music bits.

Documentary of an Imperial Japanese Army regiment's advance from Shanghai to Wuhan in 1938. This film was shelved before submission to Home Ministry...

Bill Snibson, a chancer from Lambeth Walk in South London, is informed that he has been discovered to be the long-lost heir to a title and castle whic...

Four friends pretend a cruise to escape their wives and go clubbing, but they are forced to go through face-saving shipwreck, becoming castaways.

The King declares a Festive Day in Happy Tots Kingdom and all his subjects, the Happy Tots, are invited to the celebration. Once there, they all have...

The Whalers (original title: Valfangare) is a filmed record of the final whaling expedition in the Arctic before the outbreak of WW2. Only partly a do...

“Take a trip away from the hustle and bustle and travel by rail to take in the sights of Shakespeare country.” - BFI.

A hen adopts an abandoned egg which hatches into a turtle. The baby turtle becomes the butt of all the real chicks' jokes until danger threatens.

Alfalfa "trades in" his whining baby brother for another baby--who turns out to be a midget criminal.

A story about the Swedish navy and their cadet school.