1938

Film Decades: 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

• Adiós Buenos Aires – (Argentina/Spain/Canada)
• The Adventures of Marco Polo – starring Gary Cooper and Basil Rathbone
• The Adventures of Robin Hood – directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, directed by Norman Taurog
• Águila o sol (Heads or Tails), starring Cantinflas – (Mexico)
• Alexander Nevsky – directed by Sergei Eisenstein, starring Nikolai Cherkasov – (U.S.S.R.)
• Alexander’s Ragtime Band, starring Tyrone Power, Don Ameche, Alice Faye
• Algiers, starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr
• Always Goodbye – directed by Sidney Lanfield, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, and Ian Hunter
• The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, starring Edward G. Robinson
• Angels with Dirty Faces – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart
• Bank Holiday, starring Margaret Lockwood – (GB)
• La Bête humaine (The Human Beast), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin and Simone Simon – (France)
• The Big Broadcast of 1938, starring W.C. Fields, Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
• Billy the Kid Returns, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• Block-Heads, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• Blond Cheat – starring Joan Fontaine
• Blondie, starring Penny Singleton
• Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife – directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert
• Boys Town – starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney
• Bringing Up Baby – directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn
• Brother Rat – directed by William Keighley, starring Ronald Reagan, Priscilla Lane, Eddie Albert, Jane Wyman, and Wayne Morris
• The Buccaneer – directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Fredric March
• Carefree – starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• Carmen, la de Triana (Carmen, the girl from Triana) – (Spain/Germany)
• Charlie Chan in Honolulu, starring Sidney Toler
• A Christmas Carol, starring Reginald Owen
• The Citadel – directed by King Vidor, starring Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell – (GB)
• Climbing High, starring Michael Redgrave and Jessie Matthews – (GB)
• Cocoanut Grove, starring Fred MacMurray
• College Swing, starring George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, Bob Hope
• Convict 99, starring Will Hay – (GB)
• Crime School – starring The Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart
• The Crowd Roars, starring Robert Taylor and Maureen O’Sullivan
• Dangerous to Know, starring Anna May Wong and Akim Tamiroff
• The Dawn Patrol – starring Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone
• Diao Chan – (China)
• The Divorce of Lady X, with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon – (GB)
• The Drum, with Sabu and Raymond Massey – (GB)
• Ducháček Will Fix It (Ducháček to zařídí) – (Czechoslovakia)
• The Duke of West Point – starring Louis Hayward, Joan Fontaine
• La Femme du Boulanger (The Baker’s Wife), directed by Marcel Pagnol, starring Raimu – (France)
• Ferdinand the Bull, a Disney animated short
• Fools for Scandal, starring Carole Lombard
• The Four Companions – directed by Carl Froelich, starring Ingrid Bergman – (Germany)
• Four Daughters, starring Claude Rains
• Four Men and a Prayer – directed by John Ford, starring Loretta Young, Richard Greene, David Niven
• Four’s a Crowd – directed Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell, Patric Knowles
• The Gaunt Stranger, starring Sonnie Hale – (GB)
• The Girl of the Golden West, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
• God Is Where You Find It – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring George Brendt, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains
• Hard to Get – starring Olivia de Havilland and Dick Powell
• Having Wonderful Time – starring Ginger Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
• Her Jungle Love, starring Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland
• Here’s Flash Casey, starring Eric Linden, Boots Mallory, and Cully Richards
• Holiday – directed by George Cukor, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant
• Honeysuckle, starring Hugo del Carril and Libertad Lamarque (Argentina)
• Hotel du Nord, directed by Marcel Carné – (France)
• I Am the Law, starring Edward G. Robinson
• If I Were King, starring Ronald Colman
• In Old Chicago, starring Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche
• Inspector Hornleigh, starring Gordon Harker and Alastair Sim – (GB)
• International Settlement, starring Dolores del Río
• J’accuse!, directed by Abel Gance – (France)
• Jezebel – directed by William Wyler, starring Bette Davis and Henry Fonda
• Judge Hardy’s Children, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
• Just Around the Corner, starring Shirley Temple
• Kentucky, starring Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan
• Kentucky Moonshine, starring the Ritz Brothers
• Kidnapped – directed by Otto Preminger (uncredited) & Alfred L. Werker, starring Warner Baxter and Freddie Bartholomew
• Kilómetro 111 – (Argentina)
• King Kong Appears in Edo (Edo ni Arawareta Kingu Kongu) – (Japan)
• The Lady Vanishes – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood – (GB)
• Listen, Darling – starring Judy Garland and Freddie Bartholomew
• Little Miss Broadway, starring Shirley Temple, Jimmy Durante, Edna May Oliver
• Little Tough Guy, starring Robert Wilcox, Helen Parrish, Marjorie Main
• Lord Jeff, starring Freddie Bartholomew and Mickey Rooney
• Love Finds Andy Hardy – starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
• Mad About Music, starring Deanna Durbin and Herbert Marshall
• The Mad Miss Manton – directed by Leigh Jason, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda
• Maid’s Night Out – starring Joan Fontaine
• A Man to Remember, starring Anne Shirley and Edward Ellis
• Marie Antoinette, starring Norma Shearer and Tyrone Power
• Men with Wings, directed by William Wellman, starring Fred MacMurray and Ray Milland
• Merrily We Live, starring Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett, Billie Burke, Patsy Kelly
• Mollenard, directed by Robert Siodmak – (France)
• Mother Carey’s Chickens, starring Anne Shirley
• The Mountain Calls (Der Berg Ruft) – (Germany)
• Mr. Moto’s Gamble – starring Peter Lorre and Keye Luke
• Mr. Wong, Detective, starring Boris Karloff
• My Bill, starring Kay Francis, Dickie Moore
• Of Human Hearts – starring Walter Huston, James Stewart, Beulah Bondi
• Old Bones of the River, starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt – (GB)
• Olympia, a documentary by Leni Riefenstahl – (Germany)
• Out West with the Hardys, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
• Paradise for Three, starring Frank Morgan, Robert Young, Mary Astor
• Paweł i Gaweł (Pawel and Gawel) – (Poland)
• Port of Seven Seas, directed by James Whale, starring Wallace Beery and Maureen O’Sullivan
• Port of Shadows (Le quai des brumes), directed by Marcel Carné, starring Jean Gabin and Michel Simon – (France)
• Prison Break, starring Barton MacLane and Glenda Farrell
• Professor Beware, starring Harold Lloyd
• Professor Mamlock – (U.S.S.R.)
• Pygmalion, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller – (GB)
• Radio City Revels, starring Jack Oakie
• Rawhide, starring Lou Gehrig, Smith Ballew, and Evalyn Knapp
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, starring Shirley Temple
• Red River Range – starring John Wayne
• Room Service, starring the Marx Brothers and Lucille Ball
• The Saint in New York, starring Louis Hayward
• Save a Little Sunshine, starring Patricia Kirkwood and Tommy Trinder – (GB)
• Secrets of an Actress – directed by William Keighley, starring Kay Francis, George Brent, and Ian Hunter
• Service de Luxe – directed by Rowland V. Lee, film debut of Vincent Price
• The Shopworn Angel – starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Walter Pidgeon, Hattie McDaniel
• Sidewalks of London – starring Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison – (GB)
• The Sisters – directed by Anatole Litvak, starring Errol Flynn and Bette Davis
• Sixty Glorious Years, starring Anna Neagle – (GB)
• Škola základ života – (Czechoslovakia)
• Sky Giant – directed by Lew Landers, starring Richard Dix, Chester Morris, Joan Fontaine
• A Slight Case of Murder, starring Edward G. Robinson
• Suez, starring Tyrone Power and Loretta Young
• Sweethearts, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
• The Terror of Tiny Town, starring Billy Curtis
• Test Pilot – directed by Victor Fleming, starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy
• That Certain Age, starring Deanna Durbin and Melvyn Douglas
• There Goes My Heart, starring Fredric March, Virginia Bruce and Patsy Kelly
• They Drive by Night, starring Emlyn Williams and Ernest Thesiger – (GB)
• Three Comrades, starring Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone
• Tom Sawyer, Detective, starring Donald O’Connor
• Too Hot to Handle – starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy
• Urlaub auf Ehrenwort (Leave on Parole) – (Germany)
• Valley of the Giants – directed by William Keighley, starring Wayne Morris, Claire Trevor, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale Sr., Donald Crisp, and Charles Bickford
• Young Fugitives, starring Harry Davenport
• Vivacious Lady – starring Ginger Rogers and James Stewart
• Volga-Volga – (U.S.S.R.)
• We’re Going to Be Rich – starring Gracie Fields, Victor McLaglen and Brian Donlevy – (GB)
• White Banners, starring Claude Rains and Fay Bainter
• A Woman’s Face (En kvinnas ansikte) – starring Ingrid Bergman – (Sweden)
• Woman Against Woman, starring Herbert Marshall and Virginia Bruce
• A Yank at Oxford – starring Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Vivien Leigh – (GB)
• You Can’t Take It with You – directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore – Oscars for best picture and director
• Young Dr. Kildare, starring Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore
• The Young in Heart, starring Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paulette Goddard
• La Zandunga, starring Lupe Vélez and Arturo de Córdova – (Mexico)