Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth - Quintessential Hawks fare in which men are men and women have to be equally tough. At a South American outpost, mail pilot Cary Grant becomes…
Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The (1939)- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Bette Davis, Errol Flynn - Bette Davis is perfectly cast as Queen Liz, opposite Errol Flynn. An enjoyable romp.
Q Planes (Clouds Over Europe) (1939)- Dir. Tim Whelan
Feat. Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Valerie Hobson - Delightfully preposterous comedy–thriller about superspys attempting to steal British aircraft secrets. Amid the secret rays and droll…
Roaring Twenties, The (1939)- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane… - Seminal gangster drama, paired screen–tough Cagney with a then lesser–known Bogart. Becoming buddies during WWI, they later enter and…
Second Fiddle (1939)- Dir. Sidney Lanfield
Feat. Tyrone Power, Edna May Oliver, Sonja Henie… - A musical romance with a score composed by Irving Berlin and a screenplay based on George Bradshaw's story "Heart Interest". A studio publicist…
Son of Frankenstein / Ghost of Frankenstein (1939)- Dir. Rowland V Lee, Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi… - A double feature of horrors from Universal Studios, the third and fourth films respectively in the FRANKENSTEIN series. Son of Frankenstein (1939)…
Spy In Black, The (U-Boat 29) (1939)- Dir. Michael Powell
Feat. Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, June Duprez - The brilliant debut collaboration between Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (COLONEL BLIMP, THE RED SHOES), twists an already exciting spy yarn…
Stagecoach (1939)- Dir. John Ford
Feat. Claire Trevor, John Wayne, John Carradine - As the first fully realised Western, this blazed the trail for all subsequent efforts, as well as carrying John Wayne to stardom. Panoramic…
Stars Look Down, The (1939)- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Emlyn Williams - Gritty account of life in a Northumberland coal mining village was dir. Reed's first notable film and still one of his most successful. Centred…
Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, The (1939)- Dir. H.C. Potter
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver… - Fred & Ginger star in the story of the dancing team who taught the world to two–step, based on the stories "My Husband and My Memories of…
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