Columbia Films of 1939
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1. Homicide Bureau (1939)
Approved | 58 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but ... See full summary »
Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Rita Hayworth, Marc Lawrence, Richard Fiske
Votes: 222
2. There's That Woman Again (1938)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill's prying wife wants to help catch the crook.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Margaret Lindsay, Stanley Ridges
Votes: 253
3. The Thundering West (1939)
Approved | 57 min | Drama, Music, Western
Outlaws Dale and Tucson quit Wolf's gang. Just as the two are about to rob the stage, Wolf and his gang beat them to it. Dale breaks it up saving the money and this gets him appointed ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Nelson | Stars: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Sons of the Pioneers, Dick Curtis
Votes: 10
4. Frontiers of '49 (1939)
Approved | 54 min | Western
In 1848, the U.S. Army sends Major John Freeman (Bill Elliott) to investigate the Lower California Company, headed by Howard Brunton (Charles King), which is abusing its semi-governmental ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Levering | Stars: Bill Elliott, Luana Alcañiz, Charles King, Hal Taliaferro
Votes: 28
5. North of Shanghai (1939)
Approved | 59 min | Drama, War
American reporters Helen Warnet and Jed Howard meet on a boat to Shangai unaware that Japan had just invade China and enemy spies are everywhere.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: James Craig, Betty Furness, Keye Luke, Morgan Conway
Votes: 35
6. The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)
Passed | 71 min | Adventure, Mystery
A group of spies is after the plans for an anti-aircraft gun, and the leader uses the opportunity to embroil the Lone Wolf in the plot. Trying to settle an old score, this shady character ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Warren William, Ida Lupino, Rita Hayworth, Virginia Weidler
Votes: 820
7. Texas Stampede (1939)
Approved | 57 min | Drama, Music, Western
Sheep raisers, resentful of old injuries from the cattlemen, bar the way to water when dry ranges force the cattle ranchers to drive their herds into the lowlands. Sheriff Tom Randall (... See full summary »
Director: Sam Nelson | Stars: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Fred Kohler Jr., Bob Nolan
8. My Son Is a Criminal (1939)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
"Big Tim" Halloran retires as Police Chief, and hopes his son, Tim, will join the police force. But the son opts for racketeering and, running a garage for Velvikak Taxicabs. He uses his ... See full summary »
Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Alan Baxter, Julie Bishop, Gordon Oliver, Willard Robertson
Votes: 23
9. Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Family, Music
Blondie takes over Dagwood's job while he goes off on a fishing trip.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Jonathan Hale
Votes: 406
10. Lone Star Pioneers (1939)
Approved | 56 min | Drama, Western
Wagon trains bringing supplies are being robbed and Marshal Pat Barrett has been sent to investigate. Posing as an outlaw he gets into Buck's gang. When the Ranger Captain sends for more ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Levering | Stars: Bill Elliott, Dorothy Gulliver, Lee Shumway, Slim Whitaker
11. Whispering Enemies (1939)
Passed | 62 min | Drama
The sudden death of famous opera diva Linda Morgan leaves Stephen Brewster, owner of Brewster Cosmetics, without a celebrity spokesperson. While Laura Crandall, president of the House of ... See full synopsis »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Dolores Costello, Addison Richards, Joseph Crehan
12. Let Us Live (1939)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiancée of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men's execution date.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Maureen O'Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Baxter
Votes: 676
13. Missing Daughters (1939)
Approved | 59 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Josie Lamonte (Marian Marsh), upset by experiences at the "Club Naturelle", where she had hoped to acquire 'poise and personality' for a stage career, fires a tirade at club owner ""Lucky" ... See full summary »
Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Richard Arlen, Rochelle Hudson, Marian Marsh, Isabel Jewell
Votes: 27
14. Blind Alley (1939)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Gangster Hal Wilson takes psychiatrist Dr. Shelby hostage. While captive, the doctor analyzes Wilson as though he were a patient.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Dvorak, Joan Perry
Votes: 816
15. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Passed | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
At a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air-freight company is forced to risk his pilots' lives in order to win an important contract as a traveling American showgirl stops in town.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, Richard Barthelmess
Votes: 15,656
16. Trapped in the Sky (1939)
Passed | 61 min | Drama
Upon developing a new type of electronically driven plane, Walter Fielding, an inventor, offers the United States government first option on his creation. However, when William Fornay, a ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Ralph Morgan, Paul Everton, Katherine DeMille
17. Western Caravans (1939)
Approved | 58 min | Western
A caravan of settlers is arriving and the ranchers intend to keep them out. It looks like a range war but Sheriff Jim gets the ranchers to accept the settlers. Kohler re-ignites the feud by... See full summary »
Director: Sam Nelson | Stars: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Dick Curtis, Russell Simpson
18. Behind Prison Gates (1939)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Det. Norman Craig assumes the identity of a dead bank robber (killed in a police shoot out), Red Murray, so he can infiltrate the prison and find three other bank robbers that the police ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Julie Bishop, Joseph Crehan, Paul Fix
Votes: 38
19. Coast Guard (1939)
Passed | 72 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Randolph Scott, Frances Dee, Ralph Bellamy, Walter Connolly
Votes: 133
20. The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
Unrated | 64 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
When Dr. Savaard's experiment in cryonics is interrupted by the short-sighted authorities, his volunteer dies, and he is condemned to death. He vows vengeance if he can survive his own hanging.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox, Roger Pryor
Votes: 1,966
21. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939)
Passed | 58 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
The Peppers - Mrs. Pepper and her five children Polly, Ben, Joey, Davie and Phronsie - are a poor family (the six of them sleep in a total of four beds in two rooms), but they love each ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Edith Fellows, Clarence Kolb, Dorothy Peterson, Ronald Sinclair
Votes: 252
22. Golden Boy (1939)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A poor young Italian man who is a virtuoso on the violin wishes to become a champion boxer to make a fortune for his family. But what is the road to success and happiness, and what is the price?
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, William Holden, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 2,181
23. Hidden Power (1939)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Dr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely neglects his wife Virginia and their young son Steve. Virginia divorces him and takes ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Gertrude Michael, Dickie Moore, William B. Davidson
24. Outpost of the Mounties (1939)
Approved | 63 min | Western
Wade Beaumont (Dick Curtis), R. A. Kirby (Kenneth MacDonald) and Burke (Edmund Cobb), of the Caribou Trading Company, have reduced the miners and trappers almost to the point of slavery by ... See full summary »
Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Stanley Brown, Kenneth MacDonald
Votes: 18
25. Those High Grey Walls (1939)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police. This is man whom he had ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Walter Connolly, Onslow Stevens, Paul Fix, Bernard Nedell
Votes: 37
26. A Woman Is the Judge (1939)
61 min | Drama
A famous woman jurist at the peak of her career resigns the bench to defend her daughter against a murder charge.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Frieda Inescort, Otto Kruger, Rochelle Hudson, Mayo Methot
Votes: 36
27. Scandal Sheet (1939)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama
Jim Stevenson, publisher of a scandal mongering tabloid, takes pride in publishing only the news that's unfit to print. Stevenson attends the graduation ceremonies at Croft College, where ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Otto Kruger, Ona Munson, Edward Norris, John Dilson
Votes: 14
28. The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary--or is he married to his job? For every time he has a date with his longtime fiancée,... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Clarence Kolb, Ruth Donnelly
Votes: 619
29. The Stranger from Texas (1939)
Passed | 54 min | Drama, Music, Western
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 »
Director: Sam Nelson | Stars: Charles Starrett, Lorna Gray, Richard Fiske, Dick Curtis
Votes: 60
30. Fugitive at Large (1939)
Approved | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
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 the daring holdup is successful because... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Patricia Ellis, Stanley Fields, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Votes: 24
31. Taming of the West (1939)
Approved | 55 min | Drama, Western
Bill Saunders arriving in a lawless town is quickly made Marshal. But when he arrests the gang members, the victims refuse to testify. However one rancher is willing to testify and when the... See full summary »
Director: Norman Deming | Stars: Bill Elliott, Iris Meredith, Dick Curtis, Dub Taylor
Votes: 83
32. Two-Fisted Rangers (1939)
Approved | 62 min | Western
Thad Lawson arrives in Oak Valley to avenge the murder of his brother, the local sheriff. He learns that Jack Rand, powerful overlord of the town is to blame. After Rand murders newspaper ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Sons of the Pioneers, Bob Nolan
Votes: 16
33. Miracle on Main Street (1939)
Approved | 78 min | Drama
The discovery of an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve brings new meaning to a lonely and depressed Los Angeles dancer.
Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Margo, Walter Abel, William Collier Sr., Jane Darwell
Votes: 197
34. My Son Is Guilty (1939)
Approved | 63 min | Drama
Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring.
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Julie Bishop, Harry Carey, Glenn Ford
Votes: 157
35. The Lady and the Mob (1939)
Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Society-lady Hattie Leonard organizes her own band of 'gang-busters' when she discovers a garment she sent to the dry-cleaners had been taxed 25 cents to pay for gang 'protection.' She ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Fay Bainter, Ida Lupino, Lee Bowman, Henry Armetta
Votes: 284
36. First Offenders (1939)
Approved | 63 min | Drama
A crusading and reform-minded District Attorney gives up his position in order to open establish a farm that give juvenile delinquents and first-offenders a place to straighten out their ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Walter Abel, Beverly Roberts, Iris Meredith, Johnny Downs
37. The Law Comes to Texas (1939)
Approved | 61 min | Western
Dean, the Bailey County Judge, is the boss of both the outlaw gang and the Sheriff. He utilizes the state law that Sheriffs have jurisdiction only in their own county. After a raid the gang... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Levering | Stars: Bill Elliott, Veda Ann Borg, Bud Osborne, Slim Whitaker
Votes: 16
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