Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1939

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Richard Thorpe

Allegheny Uprising – William A. Seiter

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever – W.S. Van Dyke

The Angels Wash Their Faces – Ray Enright

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery – Thorold Dickinson

Ask a Policeman – Marcel Varnel

At the Circus – Edward Buzzell

Bachelor Mother – Garson Kanin

Barricade – Gregory Ratoff

Bel Ami – Willi Forst

Blackmail – H.C. Potter

Boys’ Reformatory – Howard Bretherton

The Bronze Buckaroo – Richard C. Kahn

The Cat and the Canary – Elliot Nugent

Cesta do hlubon studakovy duse – Martin Fric

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island – Norman Foster

Cheer Boys Cheer – Walter Forde

Confessions of a Nazi Spy – Anatole Litvak

Daughter of the Tong – Raymond K. Johnson

Dodge City – Michael Curtiz

Each Dawn I Die – William Keighley

The Empress Wu Tse-tien – Fang Peilin

An Englishman’s Home – Albert de Courville

Eva Tropi hlouposti – Martin Fric

Everything Happens at Night – Irving Cummings

5th Ave Gal – Gregory La Cava

First Love – Henry Koster

Five Came Back – John Farrow

The Four Feathers – Zoltan Korda

Four Just Men – Walter Forde

Frotier Marshal – Allan Dwan

A Girl Must Live – Carol Reed

Goodbye, Mr. Chips – Sam Wood

Golden Boy – Rouben Mamoulain

Gulliver’s Travels – Dave Fleischer

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence – Richard Cortez

Hello Janine! – Carl Boese

Hollywoods Cavalcade – Irving Cummings

Idiot’s Delight – Clarence Brown

I Met a Murder – Roy Kellino

In Name Only – John Cromwell

Inspector Hornliegh – Eugene Forde

Inspector Hornliegh on Holiday – Walter Forde

Intermezzo – Gregory Ratoff

It’s a Wonderful World – W.S. Van Dyke

Jesse James – Henry King

Le Jour Se Leve – Marcel Carne

Juarez – William Dieterle

Le Jours se leve (Daybreak) – Marcel Carne

The Lambeth Walk – Albert de Courville

The Last Turning – Jean Wiener

Lenin in 1918 – Mikhail Romm

Let Us Live – John Brahm

The Light Ahead – Edgar Ulmer / Henry Felt

The Little Princess – Walter Lang

The Lion Has Wings - Various

Louis – Abel Gance

Lucky Night – Norman Taurog

Maisie – Edwin L. Marin

The Man in the Iron Mask – James Whale

Man of Conquest – George Nichols Jr.

Mexicali Rose – George Sherman

Midnight – Mitchell Leisen

The Mikado – Victor Schertzinger

Million Dollar Legs – Nick Grinde

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation – Norman Foster

Mr. Wong in Chinatown – William Nigh

The Mystery of Mr. Wong – William Nigh

Never Say Die – Elliot Nugent

Of Mice and Men – Lewis Milestone

The Oklahoma Kid – Llyod Bacon

The Old Maid – Edmond Goulding

On Borrowed Time – Harold S. Bucquet

On the Night of the Fire – Brian Desmond Hurt

On Your Toes – Ray Enright

Over the Moon – Thornton Freeland

Prisioneros de la tierra – Mario Soffici

The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex – Michael Curtiz

Q Planes – Tim Whelan / Arthur B. Woods

The Rains Came – Clarence Brown

Remember? – Norman Z. McLeod

The Return of Doctor X – Vincent Sherman

Rose of Washington Square – Gregory Ratoff

The Saint Strikes Back – John Farrow

The Saint in London – John Paddy Carstairs

Seven Litte Australians – Arthur Greville Collins

De Spooktrein – Carl Lamc

The Spy in Black – Michael Powell

Sergeant Madden – Josef von Sternberg

Stanley and Livingstone – Henry King

The Stars Look Down – Carol Reed

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums – Kenji Mizoguchi

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle – H.C. Potter

Tarzan Finds a Son! – Richard Thorpe

These Glamour Girls – S. Sylvan Simon

They Made Me a Criminal – Busby Berkeley

They Shall Have Music – Archie Mayo

The Three Musketeers – Alwn Dwan

Three Smart Girls Grow Up – Henry Koster

Three Texas Steers – George Sherman

Tower of London – Rowland V. Lee

Union Pacific – Cecil B. DeMille

The Vyborg Side (New Horizons) Grigri Kozintsev / Leonid Trauberg

Wilton’s Zoo – Douglas Sirk

Wuthering Heights – William Wyler

Wyoming Outlaw – Geroge Sherman

Zenobia – Gordon Douglas