1938 Movies

Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentric family.

Having paid for the education and legal training of his younger brother, Bruce, with the idea that he would become a lawyer and join his business, Fre...

A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process also...

In 1916, a new Russian governor is sent to the Kazakhstan steppes by the Tsar and tries to impose mandatory military service upon the native Kazakhs....

By Nikolai Gogol's "May Night, or the Drowned Maiden". Son of a stubborn mayor can not get his father's agreement to marry an ordinary peasant girl. U...

Alfalfa imagines himself as a western movie hero battling with Butch for Darla's heart.

A satirical visualization of strange and forgotten, but (at that time) nevertheless still existing laws in the U.S.A.

A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was apparently...

Zenon Ziembiewicz comes back to his hometown after graduating from the university in Paris. He gets entangled in a love triangle with educated young l...

The classic movie from 1938 is an adaptation of Oscar Braatens play. Eva Sletto plays the young factory worker Milja, and Harald Heide Steen as her un...

Few amateur films with sound were produced in the 1930s and fewer remain extant. A charming artifact that demonstrates the expressive possibilities an...

Butch has been playing practical jokes on the gang, but now they get their turn.

Mohamed Fathy rents a new apartment facing the palace of Taher Pasha, Nadia's father. A misunderstanding occurs between Fathy and Nadia, and he discov...

The workers Legendre and Martinet have won a large sum in the national lottery. Instead of squandering it, they had the good idea to invest it in indu...

It's cattlemen versus sheepmen and Trigger Gargan appears to be the leader of the gang causing the trouble. But unknown to Ranger Tex Lawrence, the re...

Jean is ten years old and imagines that he is the cause of the misunderstanding that occurred between his parents. He leaves the military institute wh...

Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to Fr...

This Traveltalk series short visits Sydney, Australia and its harbour.

Short documentary film in the newsreel series 'The March of Time'.

An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A com...