Nancy Drew... Reporter
6.7
1939
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Nancy Drew, contest-reporter for the local newspaper, clears a young woman of murder charges.
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
6.6
1939
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A group of spies is after the plans for an anti-aircraft gun, and the leader uses the opportunity to embroil the Lone Wolf in the plot. Trying to settle an old score, this shady character implicates his old nemesis by forcing him to crack the safe where the plans are stored.
They Made Me a Criminal
6.8
1939
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A boxer flees believing he has comitted a murder while he was drunk.
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
6.6
1939
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Moto thwarts a ruthless band of international agents who try to foment an international incident by mining the entrance to the Suez Canal and blaming the British.
Convict's Code
7
1939
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On parole after three years in prison, a football player (Robert Kent) encounters the man (Sidney Blackmer) who framed him.
Scouts to the Rescue
5.8
1939
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Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial (made in that short two-year span of time when they chose to be identified as The New Universal) is Universals 40th sound-era serial, made and released between \Red Barry\ and \Buck Rogers\, and has Eagle Scout Bruce Scott, leader of Martinsville Troop Number One, and his pack setting off in search of lost treasure, using a map provided by Tenderfoot scout Skeets Scanlon Scoutmaster Hale leaves the expedition to rush home to an ailing wife, but Bruce and the scouts push on and the map leads them to \Ghost Town\, where the treasure turns out to be a large cache of counterfeit $20 bills and the plates used to print them. The troop also discover a lost branch of Inca Indians living in the mountains and still undetected in 1939. The tribe gives ferocious efforts to keep the scouts from discovering their Temple cave because it contains a huge radium deposit known to them only for its ability to heal wounds. Joined by G-Man Hal Marvin, on the trail of the counterfeiting ring led by Pug OToole and Doc, the scouts face many battles and opposition from both the gangsters and the tribe.
Jesse James
7.1
1939
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After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
King of the Underworld
6.4
1939
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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.
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
5.8
1939
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A series of identical accidents kills racing drivers, but a dim-witted mechanic suspects they were not accidents.
The Mysterious Miss X
6.5
1939
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Keith Neville and Dan Casey, two small-time stage actors, are traveling by bus back to New York City, and have an overnight stay in a small town. They take a room in a local hotel and a murder is committed in an adjoining room to Keith. The latter hears the gunfire, goes to investigate, and is there when the local police arrive. He and Casey are both held on suspicion of murder and jailed. While a local policeman is going through their luggage at the hotel, he discovers a letter of introduction, in Keiths suitcase, that reads: It is requested that all official courtesy be extended to Mr. Geoffrey Desmond, Chief Inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department of the London Matropolitan Police, during his journey on a dangerous secret mission. The letter is a stage-prop from the play the two actors had just performed in, but the Police Chief thinks it is real and releases them from jail, and Keith decides to stay on and help the local bobbies solve the murder. He has a vested interest in doing so as Julie Graham, a girl he met on the bus-trip, is the daughter of the a man the District Attorney has now charged with the crime, and Keith stays to help her clear her father of the charges.
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
6.9
1938
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While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
La Bête Humaine
7.5
1938
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In this classic adaptation of Emile Zolas novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.
They Drive by Night
7.1
1938
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A convict, just out of prison, is implicated in a murder and goes on the run, hitching a ride with a truck driver.
Angels with Dirty Faces
8
1938
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A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
Cipher Bureau
5
1938
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The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.
The Mad Miss Manton
6.8
1938
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When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
Mr. Wong, Detective
6.2
1938
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When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. He uncovers an international spy ring hoping to steal the formula for a poison gas being developed by the first victims company.
Slander House
4
1938
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Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.
I Am the Law
6.8
1938
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Law professor John Lindsay is asked by a civic leader to become a special prosecutor to go after the racketeers in town.
Dick Tracy Returns
6.4
1938
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Dick Tracy battles spies and saboteurs in his efforts to bring to justice the Stark gang, a criminal family led by the vicious Pa Stark.
Smashing the Rackets
6
1938
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Jim Socker Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorneys office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Lettys much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jims friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
6.1
1938
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Drummond, his girlfriend and his butler try to free an high post of Scotland Yard who has been kidnapped.
Barefoot Boy
5.5
1938
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Other than a statement in the opening credits that the story owes its origin to a John Greenleaf Whittier poem, this film has little or no connection to the poem for which it shares its title. In this film, Kenneth Hale, a pampered, snobbish young boy, is sent by his father, John Hale, who has served time in prison for a crime he did not commit, down to the country farm of an old friend, Calvin Whittaker. The barefoot, honest, and plucky Billy Whittaker, his girlfriend Pige Bennett, and Kenneth get involved with a \haunted\ house and a gang of crooks, while Billy helps make a \better man\ out of Kenneth.
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
7
1938
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A brilliant Park Avenue doctor becomes a criminal in order to do research into the criminal mind.