Movies released in 1939

Back Door to Heaven

64/100

The life of a young slum kid, who starts out stealing small things in order to fit in with the "crowd", winds up in reform school, and eventually spends much of his life in prison. Upon his... See full summary »

Daughter of the Tong

48/100

A detective matches wits with the female leader of an Oriental crime ring.

Irish Luck

52/100

Buzzy O'Brien is a bellhop in a hotel where a guest is murdered. The police blame Kitty Monahan and Buzzy succeeds in helping her escape and hides her at his home with his mother. Buzzy and... See full summary »

Swanee River

65/100

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 ... See full summary »

Man About Town

69/100

Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose ... See full summary »

Boy Slaves

63/100

A runaway follows the leader of a gang of boys, and they all wind up working in a turpentine camp.

Poison Pen

70/100

A small, sedate British village is shocked when its residents begin receiving hate-filled diatribes, known as "poison pen letters".

The Whole Family Works

66/100

They All Come Out

61/100

A "Crime Doesn't Pay" morality drama about a young man sentenced to a prison term and attempts by the system to rehabilitate jailed criminals.

Coral Reefs

61/100

The adventures of a sailor (Lennard) from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl (Lilian White).

Full Confession

60/100

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.

Trouble Brewing

70/100

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.

Fixer Dugan

59/100

A young girl is orphaned when her mother, a circus aerialist, is killed in a fall. A rival circus informs the sheriff that the girl is an orphan...

The Secret Four

65/100

The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they ... See full summary »

South of the Border

63/100

Federal Agent Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog are sent to Mexico to prevent foreign powers from gaining control of Mexican oil refineries and fomenting revolution among the Mexican people.... See full summary »

Lying Lips

49/100

A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt, convicted of the killing and sent to prison. However, her friend, who is a police detective, ... See full summary »

The Invisible Killer

44/100

A fiendish killer uses sound waves to commit his murders.

The Cowboy Quarterback

49/100

Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets ... See full summary »

Convict's Code

55/100

A man is framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. When he is let out on limited parole, he sets out to clear his name and find the real criminals.

Kriminalkommissär Studer

74/100