The Rains Came (1939)
[5] Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, and George Brent star in this drama set in 1938 British India. Loy plays the bored wife of an aristocrat who begins flirting with two different men to spice up her life: Power, as a…
Union Pacific (1939)
[8] Director Cecil B. DeMille sets a love triangle against America's efforts to create the trans-continental railroad in Union Pacific. Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity) gets top billing as the Irish daughter of the engineer in charge of building the railroad.…
Golden Boy (1939)
[5] William Holden's breakout performance was in this drama about a New York violinist who gets drawn into the boxing ring much to his father's dismay. His fighting takes him all the way to Madison Square Garden under the guidance…
The Women (1939)
[8] Norma Shearer (The Divorcee) fronts an all-star, all-female cast in George Cukor's adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce's The Women. Shearer plays a happily married woman of privilege who learns through the gossipy grapevine that her husband is having an…
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
[8] Jimmy Stewart gives a career-defining performance in this Frank Capra classic about a celebrated boy scout leader (Stewart) who gets chosen to fill a deceased senator's seat in the U.S. congress. His party assumes Stewart will be a doting…
Wuthering Heights (1939)
[4] On the barren moors of Yorkshire, a young girl befriends an orphan boy her father brings home from a trip to Liverpool. The friendship turns romantic, but when the girl's father dies, her nasty blood brother becomes master of…
Boy Slaves (1939)
[8] A young boy named Jesse (Roger Daniel) runs away from home to find a job and send money back to his mother, but along the way he falls in with a band of other runaways who are constantly avoiding…
These Glamour Girls (1939)
[5] Lew Ayres and Lana Turner headline this fluffy comedy about a dancer (Turner) who is invited to a posh weekend party with a rich boy (Ayres) and his rich friends. The problem is that Ayres was drunk when he…
Beau Geste (1939)
[7] Three orphans grow up together as brothers under the care of a kindly benefactor. When they're old enough, they join the Foreign Legion, but their dreams of adventure are dashed when a sinister sergeant turns their first outpost into…
Five Came Back (1939)
[7] Lucille Ball and John Carradine are among the 12-passenger crew of a small passenger plane that crashes in South America. The motley crew, which includes a child, a socialite, and a prisoner sentenced to death, must work together to…