Movies 1938 Page 40

“Musical performers Henry Hall and his Orchestra hog the limelight in this promotional film, ostensibly for Ascot gas water heaters.” - BFI.

A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers.

Grandma sends her regards, a short film by Jürgen von Alten.

A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for...

A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.

Porky sets sail for the Boola-Boola islands in the South Seas with a ship full of general merchandise and plans to open a 5 & 10 cent store. But...

A rising stage star's ambition causes trouble.

Directed by Frank Hurley, this 1938 promotional travelogue highlights the Great Barrier Reef as an ideal holiday destination.

A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife.

Egghead obtains a magic lamp and proceeds to entertain the Sultan in order to win the hand of his beautiful daughter.

A blustering gunfighter talks himself into the position of mayor in a small western town.

When waiter Thomas Hansen has put aside 10-øre on 10-øre to become a hotel owner, you can clearly see that the spirit has changed. It is not...

Porky and Pinky go to the beach. As Porky tries to nap, Pinky keeps whacking him with his little shovel. Then he fakes drowning in a shallow puddle....

Alexis, a former war pilot, attempted the Paris-Tokyo raid and failed. He became a taxi driver. The film actress, Margot Fontane, forgets her bag in...

In 1930s Warsaw, wealthy Andrzej Dowmunt returns from Africa, becomes entangled with a spy, and later marries Marta after exposing the espionage...

A Russian grand duchess, in order to avoid a marriage imposed on her by her family, pretends to have fallen in love with a movie actor and tells her...

Olive is reading a romance novel and munching on a gift box of candy from Bluto when Popeye drops by. She's too absorbed to notice him, so he feigns...

In 1865, Captain Mark Smith of the Confederate Army leads a band of deserters to conquer Texas and rule it as a dictator. In one of his first...

A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two...

When a young woman becomes aware of her husband's wandering attentions, she plots his retribution.

Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.

A 1938 reportage of the market and managed stores in Helsinki.

Alfalfa and the gang build their own "speedboat" powered by ducks, and challenge Waldo to a race for the hand of Darla.

A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.

US marshal Lawlor (Starrett) takes on a gang of cattle rustlers headed by Taylor (Dick Curtis). His reasons are partly personal: Conway (Edward...

Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends...

A chemist is left unhinged following a laboratory explosion and begins to plot a murder.

As the White man takes more and more land from the American Indian, they diminish in number to one, who is pushed to madness. He steals a car and a...

Scrappy is reading Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People. A bird keeping him company hears Scrappy say "The early bird catches the...

Finding a man alone in the desert, Marshal Tom is relieved - of his horse, clothes and water. When he catches up to Raven, he finds him dying from...

Indian village life, including a Brahmin initiation ceremony and a Hindu wedding.

"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in...

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened...

In this 'Vitaphone Melody Master,' orchestra leader Ray Kinney sings Hawaiian songs while The Aloha Maids perform native dances.

Just after Carson's gang murder members of a wagon train, Rusty and Clem come along and are arrested. Knowing they are innocent Judge Coleman breaks...

Scrappy gets a Saint Bernard and drags it home from the pet shop. He introduces the huge beast to his parrot, Pete, and leaves them to get...

After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture the real killer and clear her name.

Study on Dactylaria brochopaga's predacious strategy

Nightclub singer Della Mason witnesses a murder and is forced by the killer to flee with him from the scene of the crime. Escaping from the gangster,...

Mr. and Mrs. Mouse and family are going through the jungle in a trailer looking for a cheap place to rent. Mr. Lion captures Mr. Mouse but Mrs. Mouse...