Three Texas Steers

1939

English

5.4

♡ 8

29%

George Sherman Director

Billy Curtis as Hercules

Collette Lyons as Lillian

Carole Landis as Nancy Evans

Ray Corrigan as Tucson Smith / Willie the Gorilla

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 circus to force Nancy to sell the ranch; instead, she goes there to live. Will her neighbors, the Three Mesquiteers, be a match for the secret swindlers? And what's so valuable about that run-down ranch anyway?

Sea Scouts

1939

English

6.8

♡ 17

Dick Lundy Director

Clarence Nash as Donald Duck / Huey / Dewey / Louie

Donald is an admiral on a seagoing voyage with his nephews in which they encounter a ravenous shark.

Society Dog Show

1939

English

6.8

♡ 9

Bill Roberts Director

John McLeish as Car Opener

June Foray as Fifi

Billy Bletcher as Judge

Walt Disney as Mickey Mouse

Rather out of place at a swanky dog show, Pluto flirts with Fifi, a dainty Pekingese. The judge orders Mickey and Pluto to leave, but when a fire breaks out Pluto rescues Fifi and is proclaimed a hero.

Beach Picnic

1939

English

6.5

♡ 10

44%

Clyde Geronimi Director

Clarence Nash as Donald Duck

Lee Millar as Pluto

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 the rubber horse over to Pluto which completely mesmerizes him. Meanwhile, a tribe of ants abduct Donald's picnic lunch. Donald lays out fly paper to stop the ants. Pluto follows one of the ants and, of course, he and later Donald become enmeshed in the fly paper

Union Pacific

1939

English

7.0

♡ 5

83%

Cecil B. DeMille Director

Harold Goodwin as Calvin

Sidney D'Albrook as Man

Regis Toomey as Paddy O'Rourke

Don Beddoe as Reporter

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

Invisible Stripes

1939

English

6.7

♡ 1

53%

Action

brother against brother

Lloyd Bacon Director

Leo Gorcey as Jimmy

Lee Patrick as Molly

William Hopper as Society Gent in Top Hat

Frank Faylen as Steve - Henchman on Bank Job

A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

Tower of London

1939

English

6.6

♡ 3

83%

Rowland V. Lee Director

Vincent Price as Duke of Clarence

John Roy as Guard

Frank Hagney as Soldier

Donald Stuart as Torturer Bunch

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 Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.

Personal Column

6.9

Robert Siodmak Director

Robert Seller as Carioni

Philippe Richard as L'avocat

Erich von Stroheim as Pears

Maurice Chevalier as Robert Fleury

To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest missing person.

Four Flights to Love

1939

French

6.7

♡ 3

Abel Gance Director

Gaby André as Irène

Micheline Presle as Janine Mercier / Jeannette Leblanc

Fernand Gravey as Le peintre Pierre Leblanc

Dora Doll as (uncredited)

In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until the war breaks out and he becomes a soldier. Janine dies in childbirth and, no longer desiring to live, Pierre volunteers for a dangerous patrol behind German lines. While recuperating in the hospital from a wound he received on the mission, Pierre spends his time drawing sketches of dresses. He becomes rich and famous after the war. Years later, after devoting himself to his daughter, Pierre seeks a marriage with a girl no older than his daughter. A conflict develops and to ensure his daughter's happiness, Pierre sacrifices his own plans.

Honolulu

1939

English

6.5

♡ 2

29%

Edward Buzzell Director

Cliff Clark as 1st Detective

Eleanor Powell as Dorothy March

Ruth Hussey as Eve

Edgar Dearing as Jailer

Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.

Zenobia

1939

English

6.0

♡ 3

58%

Gordon Douglas Director

Harry Myers as Party Guest Who Didn't Mind

William Bakewell as Sharecropper

Mary Kornman as Townswoman

June Lang as Virginia

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

The Little Princess

1939

English

7.1

♡ 12

89%

Walter Lang Director

Sybil Jason as Becky

Arthur Treacher as Bertie Minchin

Keith Hitchcock as Bobbie

Amzie Strickland as Nurse

A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

The Bronze Buckaroo

1939

English

4.9

♡ 2

Richard C. Kahn Director

Earle Morris as Bartender

Lee Calmes as Lee

The Four Tones as Singing Quartet

F.E. Miller as Slim Perkins

Bob Blake and his sidekick and four singing cowboys arrive at the Jackson ranch where Bob learns from Betty Jackson that her brother, Joe, is missing. Bob investigates and learns that there is gold on the Jackson ranch, and the neighboring rancher has kidnapped Joe in order to get his land.

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

1939

English

6.9

♡ 4

74%

George Marshall Director

Ethelreda Leopold as Blonde at Party

Irving Bacon as Jailer

Minerva Urecal as Screaming Spinster at Circus

William A. Boardway as Wedding Guest

Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.

S.O.S. Tidal Wave

1939

English

5.8

♡ 2

husband wife relationship

Sci-Fi

tv personality in politics

ventriloquist

John H. Auer Director

Mickey Kuhn as Buddy Shannon

Robert J. Wilke as Man in TV Studio

George Montgomery as (uncredited)

Minerva Urecal as (uncredited)

A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.

The Oklahoma Kid

1939

English

6.4

♡ 2

49%

Lloyd Bacon Director

Irving Bacon as Hotel Clerk

Trevor Bardette as Indian Jack Pasco

Herman Hack as Townsman

Ward Bond as Wes Handley

McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.

Jamaica Inn

1939

English

6.3

♡ 11

54%

36%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

smuggling (contraband)

undercover agent

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Robert Newton as Jem Trehearne - Sir Humphrey's Gang

Maureen O'Hara as Mary - Joss Merlyn's Niece

Basil Radford as Sir Humphrey's Friend

Mervyn Johns as Thomas - Sir Humphrey's Gang

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.

Frontier Marshal

1939

English

6.6

♡ 2

62%

Allan Dwan Director

Jack Kenny as Barfly

Walter Baldwin as (scenes deleted)

Tom London as (scenes deleted)

Ward Bond as Town Marshal

Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Dust Be My Destiny

1939

English

6.8

♡ 2

65%

Lewis Seiler Director

Ward Bond as First Thug on Train

Alan Hale as Mike Leonard

William Hopper as Reporter

Anthony Warde as Second Thug on Train

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, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.

Racketeers of the Range

1939

English

6.0

♡ 2

Drama

Western

D. Ross Lederman Director

Cactus Mack as Flash Gilbert

Marjorie Reynolds as Helen Lewis

Harry Cording as Scarface Pete

Chill Wills as Whopper Hatch

A large packing company is trying to obtain a monopoly by taking over the last small independent meat packer. Barney O'Dell, owner of the largest ranch, is trying to stop them. When the owner agrees to sell, Barney get a delay by forcing the small company to declare bankruptcy and having himself made receiver. Now the large company has to deal with Larry and when he refuses they resort to rustling.

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The Little Princess

The Bronze Buckaroo

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

S.O.S. Tidal Wave

The Oklahoma Kid

Jamaica Inn

Frontier Marshal

Dust Be My Destiny

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