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The Best Movies of 1939
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Movie: The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 )
Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.
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Movie: Gone with the Wind ( 1940 )
A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
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Movie: Stagecoach ( 1939 )
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
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Movie: Jesse James ( 1939 )
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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Movie: Gunga Din ( 1939 )
In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.
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Movie: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 )
A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.
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Movie: The Women ( 1939 )
A study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women.
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Movie: Wuthering Heights ( 1939 )
A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
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Movie: The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1939 )
In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
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Movie: Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 )
At a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air-freight company is compelled to risk the lives of his pilots in order to win an important contract as a traveling American showgirl/harlot stops in town.
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Movie: The Roaring Twenties ( 1939 )
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
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Movie: The Rules of the Game ( 1950 )
A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.
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Movie: Ninotchka ( 1939 )
A stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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Movie: The Hound of the Baskervilles ( 1939 )
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.
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Movie: Jamaica Inn ( 1939 )
In Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.
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Movie: Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (Short 1939) ( 1939 )
The stooges are tramps looking for handouts. Although the boys are down and out, Curly seems to get everything he wishes for. After some trouble with a farmer, the boys come across an abandoned car, one of Curly's wishes. The car actually belongs to some con men who have just gypped the widow Jenkins out of her land. The boys winds up at the Mrs. Jenkins' house just i...Read all
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Movie: The Little Princess ( 1939 )
A little girl is left by her father in an exclusive seminary for girls while he fights in the Second Boer War. Later, after he is presumed dead, she is forced to become a servant.
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Movie: Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( 1939 )
An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.
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Movie: Three Sappy People (Short 1939) ( 1939 )
The stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the psychiatrists in whose office they are working. A rich man hires them to treat his impetuous young wife who is always running off for submarine rides and the like. The boys ruin a dinner party at their clients mansion but their antics so amuse his wife the she is cured and the stooges are paid off handsomely.
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Movie: Of Mice and Men ( 1940 )
A mentally disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
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Movie: Dark Victory ( 1939 )
A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she'll meet her final days with dignity.
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Movie: Love Affair ( 1939 )
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship.
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Movie: Son of Frankenstein ( 1939 )
Returning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilitate him.
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Movie: Destry Rides Again ( 1939 )
Deputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy.
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Movie: Young Mr. Lincoln ( 1939 )
A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.
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Movie: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( 1939 )
A depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.
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Movie: Made for Each Other ( 1939 )
While on a business trip, an ambitious young lawyer meets and immediately falls in love with a stranger. They wed the following day, and tragedy soon strikes.
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Movie: The Four Feathers ( 1939 )
A British Army officer resigns, burning his last-day summons to war in the Sudan. Accusing him of cowardice, his girlfriend and three friends give him white feathers. To gain redemption, he shadows his friends to save their lives.
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Movie: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ( 1939 )
The master sleuth hunts his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, who is planning the crime of the century.
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Movie: Drums Along the Mohawk ( 1939 )
Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.
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Movie: Gulliver's Travels ( 1939 )
A doctor washes ashore on an island inhabited by little people.
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Movie: Beau Geste ( 1939 )
Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire.
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Movie: The Cat and the Canary ( 1939 )
When an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow.
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Movie: The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1939 )
Despotic King Louis XIV discovers he has a twin brother who has grown up under the tutelage of his foster father, the patriotic musketeer D'Artagnan.
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Movie: Golden Boy ( 1939 )
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?
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Movie: Calling All Curs (Short 1939) ( 1939 )
The stooges run a pet hospital and get an important patient, Garcon, a rich ladies poodle. When dognappers posing as reporters steal the poodle, the boys are in a tough spot. First they try to fool their client by disguising a mutt as the poodle. When that doesn't work, they use the mutt as a bloodhound to track down the crooks. When they discover the bad guys hideout...Read all
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Movie: Union Pacific ( 1939 )
In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.
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Movie: Intermezzo ( 1940 )
A violinist's piano accompanist retires. He hears his daughter's piano teacher (Ingrid Bergman) play, asks her to play on his next international tour, and they fall in love.
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Movie: Another Thin Man ( 1939 )
An explosives manufacturer suspects a young man is out to kill him. He calls in new parents Nick and Nora to sort things out.
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Movie: Babes in Arms ( 1939 )
A group of vaudevillians struggling to compete with talkies hits the road hoping for a comeback. Frustrated to be left behind, all of their kids put on a show themselves to raise money for the families and to prove they've got talent, too.
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Movie: Buck Rogers ( 1939 )
A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.
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Movie: Confessions of a Nazi Spy ( 1939 )
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-war espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Movie: Remember the Night ( 1940 )
Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.
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Movie: Midnight ( 1939 )
A chorus girl stranded in Paris is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife's affair with another man, while being romantically pursued by a cab driver.
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Movie: The Rains Came ( 1939 )
In India, a married British aristocrat is reunited with an old flame, but she truly has her sights set on a handsome surgeon.
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Movie: It's a Wonderful World ( 1939 )
When a tycoon (Ernest Truex) is accused of murder, the private eye (James Stewart) tracking him finds himself roped in as an accessory and attempts to evade police, kidnapping a poetess (Claudette Colbert) along the way.
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Movie: In Name Only ( 1939 )
After a wealthy man finds out his wife is a gold digger, he meets and falls for a widowed mother, and complications ensue.
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Movie: Five Came Back ( 1939 )
A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.
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Movie: At the Circus ( 1939 )
The Marx Brothers try to help the owner of a circus recover some stolen funds before he finds himself out of a job.
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Movie: The Flying Deuces ( 1939 )
Ollie has fallen in love with the innkeeper's daughter in Paris. The only problem - she's very much in love with her husband. To forget her he joins the Foreign Legion with Stan. Bad idea.
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Movie: Invisible Stripes ( 1939 )
An ex-con who wants to go straight has difficulties trying to reintegrate into society while on parole.
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Movie: Tarzan Finds a Son! ( 1939 )
Tarzan finds a boy from a crashed plane and raises him with Jane in the jungle. A search party comes looking for the plane.
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Movie: Juarez ( 1939 )
Louis Napoleon III (Claude Rains) takes advantage of the American Civil War to circumvent the Monroe Doctrine and expand his power by helping Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg (Brian Aherne) to add Mexico to his empire.
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Movie: The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle ( 1939 )
The story of the dancing team who taught the world to two-step.
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Movie: Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase ( 1939 )
Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
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Movie: Frontier Marshal ( 1939 )
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Movie: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 )
An unemployed woman discovers an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage, and accepts an offer to take responsibility for the child in return for a job.
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Movie: Tower of London ( 1939 )
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.
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Movie: They Made Me a Criminal ( 1939 )
A champion boxer on the lam, believed to have committed murder while drunk, takes refuge and finds redemption at an Arizona farm for delinquent youths.
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Movie: On Borrowed Time ( 1939 )
A cantankerous old man takes in his beloved, orphaned grandson, whom he must protect at all costs with the help of an agent of Death and a magical apple tree.
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Movie: Some Like It Hot ( 1939 )
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu o...Read all
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Movie: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island ( 1939 )
Charlie's investigation of a phony psychic during the 1939 World Exposition on San Francisco's Treasure Island leads him to expose a suicide as murder.
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Movie: Idiot's Delight ( 1939 )
A group of disparate travelers are caught and thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the beginning of World War II.
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Movie: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell ( 1939 )
The story of how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
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Movie: The Gracie Allen Murder Case ( 1939 )
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder. Allen's uncle fixes her up with Bill at a company picnic. When the two go out to a nightclub that night, Gracie inadvertently links Bill to the murder of a thug after finding the dead body and Bill's cigarette case at the scene of the crime. While being questioned at the...Read all
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Movie: The Ice Follies of 1939 ( 1939 )
An ice skater jeopardizes her marriage after she becomes a movie star.
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Movie: First Love ( 1939 )
An orphaned boarding school graduate secretly attends a prestigious ball, where she falls for the boyfriend of her snobbish cousin.
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Movie: The Return of Doctor X ( 1939 )
A hotshot reporter and a young doctor team up to investigate a series of grisly murders and a mysterious sample of synthetic blood.
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Movie: Raffles ( 1939 )
Man about town and first class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend with her parents, Lord and Lady Melrose. A necklace presents an irresistible temptation, but also in attendance is Scotland Yard's finest, finally on the trail.
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Movie: Dodge City ( 1939 )
A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.
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Movie: Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 )
A corrupt D.A. (Thurston Hall) with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter (James Cagney) for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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Movie: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( 1939 )
To avoid his abusive father, a rambunctious boy rafts the Mississippi River with a slave, encountering many wild characters.
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Movie: When Tomorrow Comes ( 1939 )
A concert pianist unhappily married to a mentally ill woman falls in love with a waitress.
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Movie: The Phantom Creeps ( 1939 )
A military intelligence officer and a pretty reporter try to find a scientist whose inventions can destroy the world.
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Movie: The Real Glory ( 1939 )
A small American contingent tries to train rural tribesmen to defend themselves against fanatical Muslim radicals in 1906 Philippines.
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Movie: The Old Maid ( 1939 )
The arrival of an ex-lover on a young woman's wedding day sets in motion a chain of events which will alter her and her cousin's lives forever.
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Movie: The Human Monster ( 1940 )
Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.
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Movie: The Oklahoma Kid ( 1939 )
During the Oklahoma Land Rush, the lawlessness is exacerbated by the McCord gang's feud with the Kincaids, who are trying to bring law and justice to the region.
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Movie: The Mystery of Mr. Wong ( 1939 )
Detective tries to solve the murder of antiques collector who was in possession of a famous jewel known as "The Eye of the Daughter of The Moon."
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Movie: Dick Tracy's G-Men ( 1939 )
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
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Movie: Susannah of the Mounties ( 1939 )
Susannah, an orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West, is saved by a Mountie and his girlfriend, despite further attacks from the Indian chief.
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Movie: King of the Underworld ( 1939 )
After the killing of her husband by friendly fire during a police raid, Dr. Carole Nelson tries to find gangster Joe Gurney to clear her name with the medical board.
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Movie: The Saint in London ( 1939 )
The Saint returns to London and with the help of an American pickpocket and a beautiful adventuress breaks a counterfeiting ring.
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Movie: The Star Maker ( 1939 )
This is a film based on the life of Gus Edwards, a well-known vaudeville composer, entertainer and producer.
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Movie: The Man They Could Not Hang ( 1939 )
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.
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Movie: British Intelligence ( 1940 )
Although the home of cabinet minister Arthur Bennett is a hotbed of spies, moles, and double agents, no one knows the true identity of notorious German spymaster Strendler.
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Movie: Stanley and Livingstone ( 1939 )
Tasked by his editor, American reporter Henry M. Stanley travels to a dangerous and uncharted region of East Africa to find the missing Scottish pioneer missionary Dr. David Livingstone.
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Movie: We Want Our Mummy (Short 1939) ( 1939 )
The stooges go to Egypt in search of the mummy of king Rutentuten for which a museum will pay a $5000 prize. They wind up in the mummy's tomb where they are harassed by some criminals pursuing the same objective. These criminals abducted a professor from the museum. They are yearning for the jewels buried inside the mummy's tomb. When Curly accidentally destroys the m...Read all
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Movie: Hollywood Cavalcade ( 1939 )
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
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Movie: Honolulu ( 1939 )
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.
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Movie: Blondie Brings Up Baby ( 1939 )
A salesman convinces Blondie that Baby Dumpling is a budding genius, so the Bumsteads enroll him in a special school from which he disappears.
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Movie: A Ducking They Did Go (Short 1939) ( 1939 )
Con men hire the Stooges to sell memberships to a phony duck hunting club.
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Movie: Yes, We Have No Bonanza (Short 1939) ( 1939 )
Set in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a saloon with the three girls they hope to marry. The proprietor of the saloon is a crook who, with his partner, has buried $40,000 of stolen money. The boys go prospecting in hopes of raising enough money to pay off the debts of their fiancée father, who owes money to their boss. They dig up the stolen mone...Read all