Film Trailers World: 1939

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September 07, 2015

The Phantom Creeps (1939) Trailer

The Phantom Creeps

A BLAZE OF DYNAMITE ACTION! Crashing...smashing...dashing through 12 spine-shivering chapters!

The Phantom Creeps is a 1939 serial about a mad scientist who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions. In a dramatic fashion, foreign agents and G-Men try to seize the inventions for themselves.

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This undistinguished cliffhanger, found Bela once again playing a mad scientist (Dr. Alex Zorka) out to control the world with advanced scientific wizardry, including the ability to become invisible and an 8 foot tall robot! Lots of stock footage to pad out the proceedings and little in the way of earnest emoting from the cast. THE PHANTOM CREEPS was also Lugosi's fifth and final serial.

June 18, 2015

13 Minutes (2015) Trailer

Elser – Er hätte die Welt verändert

13 Minutes (German: Elser – Er hätte die Welt verändert) is a 2014 German drama film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel that portrays the failed Hitler assassin Georg Elser.

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Movie Review

February 15, 2015

Union Pacific (1939) Trailer

Union Pacific

"Union Pacific" is coming!

Union Pacific is a 1939 American dramatic western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea.

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The 1862 Pacific Railroad Act signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad westward across the wilderness toward California, but financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau. Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

*Wikipedia*

February 10, 2015

At the Circus (1939) Trailer

At the Circus

NOT SUITABLE FOR GENERAL EXHIBITION

At the Circus (a.k.a. The Marx Brothers at the Circus) is a 1939 Marx Brothers comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in which they save a circus from bankruptcy.

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Review

January 09, 2015

Tower of London (1939) Scene

Tower of London

Tower of London is a 1939 black-and-white historical film and quasi-horror film released by Universal Pictures and directed by Rowland V. Lee. It stars Basil Rathbone as the future Richard III of England, and Boris Karloff as his fictitious club-footed executioner Mord.

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In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.

Written by Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>

November 05, 2014

Juarez (1939) Trailer

Juarez

A Mighty King . . . A Proud Queen ! . . . pitted against a humble man who had the courage to defy the throne !

Juarez is a 1939 American historical drama film directed by William Dieterle.

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Louis Napoleon III takes advantage of the American Civil War to circumvent the Monroe Doctrine and expand his power by helping Emperor Maximillian Hapsburg to add Mexico to his empire of Mexico.

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) Trailer

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is an American biographical musical comedy, released in 1939 and directed by H.C. Potter.

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In 1911, Vernon Castle, minor comic in a stage revue, pursues the leading lady to a New Jersey beach...where, instead, he meets stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they're married; at Irene's insistence, they abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career, which attempt only lands them in Paris without a sou. Fortunately, agent Maggie Sutton hears them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. But at the height of their fame, World War I begins...

Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) Trailer

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

Darryl F. Zanuck's Entertainment gem will take its place in the Hall of Fame !

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell is a somewhat fictionalized 1939 biographical

film of the famous inventor.

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Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>