1938 Movies

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Directed by: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley

Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains

Country: United States of America

Outline: When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army.

You Can't Take It with You

Directed by: Frank Capra

Starring: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold

Country: United States of America

Outline: A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

Marie Antoinette

Directed by: W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier

Starring: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley

Country: United States of America

Outline: The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.

Boys Town

Directed by: Norman Taurog

Starring: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton

Country: United States of America

Outline: When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to do something about. An advocate of child...

Alexander's Ragtime Band

Directed by: Henry King

Starring: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman

Country: United States of America

Outline: This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.

Test Pilot

Directed by: Victor Fleming

Starring: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore

Country: United States of America

Outline: Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

Love Finds Andy Hardy

Directed by: George B. Seitz

Starring: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, Cecilia Parker

Country: United States of America

Outline: Andy's girlfriend Polly is planning to spend Christmas at her grandmother's, which puts a kink in his plans to take her to the country club Christmas party. He agrees (for a fee) to pretend...

Bringing Up Baby

Directed by: Howard Hawks

Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett

Country: United States of America

Outline: While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.

Angels with Dirty Faces

Directed by: Michael Curtiz

Starring: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan

Country: United States of America

Outline: A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.

The Lady Vanishes

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty

Country: United States of America

Outline: While traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.

Holiday

Directed by: George Cukor

Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young man in love with a girl from a rich family finds his unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister and long-suffering brother.

Block-Heads

Directed by: John G. Blystone

Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Patricia Ellis, Minna Gombell

Country: United States of America

Outline: Stan, who has remained faithfully at his World War I post for twenty years, is rescued by his best friend, Ollie, thus allowing him to discover the many conveniences of the modern world.

Alexander Nevsky

Directed by: Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitriy Vasilev

Starring: Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov, Dmitriy Orlov

Country: United States of America

Outline: The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.

Jezebel

Directed by: William Wyler

Starring: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay

Country: United States of America

Outline: In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.

The Dawn Patrol

Directed by: Edmund Goulding

Starring: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Donald Crisp

Country: United States of America

Outline: British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.

Romance of the Limberlost

Directed by: William Nigh

Starring: Jean Parker, Eric Linden, Marjorie Main, Edward Pawley

Outline: One little correction -- the Limberlost is in Indiana, rather than in the south.

A Christmas Carol

Directed by: Edwin L. Marin

Starring: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, Terry Kilburn

Country: United States of America

Outline: On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge ...

Merrily We Live

Directed by: Norman Z. McLeod

Starring: Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Alan Mowbray, Billie Burke

Outline: Dizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome "tramp" who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a ...

Mad About Music

Directed by: Norman Taurog

Starring: Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, Gail Patrick, Arthur Treacher

Outline: A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she...

Three Comrades

Directed by: Frank Borzage

Starring: Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young

Outline: A love story centered around the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who ...

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch

Starring: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, David Niven

Country: United States of America

Outline: After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married and divorced seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.

Dick Tracy Returns

Directed by: John English, William Witney

Starring: Ralph Byrd, Lynne Roberts, Charles Middleton, Jerry Tucker

Outline: Dick Tracy battles spies and saboteurs in his efforts to bring to justice the Stark gang, a criminal family led by the vicious Pa Stark.

A Slight Case of Murder

Directed by: Lloyd Bacon

Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly

Outline: Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

The Rage of Paris

Directed by: Henry Koster

Starring: Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mischa Auer, Louis Hayward

Outline: Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problem is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ...