The Angels Wash Their Faces
Original Theatrical Date: August 26, 1939
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Former United States President Ronald Reagan stars with the Dead End Kids as a bare-knuckled urban district attorney who crusades in the defense of a kid who's been framed for arson and murder in The Angels Wash Their Faces.
When Gabe Ryan (...
In Name Only
Original Theatrical Date: August 18, 1939
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Alec Walker’s wife Maida is a beauty, but she’s also a venomous, self-absorbed schemer. Then Alec falls for an open-hearted widow named Julie. And Maida turns wedding vows into a steel trap: If Alec files for divorce, she’ll drag Julie into court as...
The Oklahoma Kid
Original Theatrical Date: March 11, 1939
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James Cagney swaps his fedora for a ten-gallon hat in this rip-roaring Western adventure costarring Humphrey Bogart and Rosemary Lane.
The range-riding rascal of the Cherokee Strip, the Oklahoma Kid (Cagney) is the territory’s most hunted outlaw...
Dead End Kids On Dress Parade/Hell's Kitchen
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The kid stars of Broadway’s Dead End were seasoned series vets by 1939, having already appeared in a number of films backing up the likes of James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Pat O’Brien. By 1939, their popularity propelled them to headliner status...
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Original Theatrical Date: July 21, 1939
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Academy Award winner Mickey Rooney stars as Andy Hardy—a high school student who falls hopelessly in love with his drama teacher. The ill-fated infatuation reaches a climax during the school play, when Andy proposes marriage but discovers that his...
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Original Theatrical Date: November 11, 1939
Available Now on Digital / November 28 on DVD
In one of the most stunningly designed movies from Hollywood's golden age, Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) directs the historical drama of Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex, which threatens to destroy her kingdom.
Bette Davis and Errol Flynn...
The Old Maid
Original Theatrical Date: September 02, 1939
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Bette Davis stars in this tangled tale of life and love unsatisfied, as a Civil War era single mother, forced to let her romantic rival raise her daughter.
"She's just a sour old maid who hates me because I'm young and attractive and in love!"...
The Return of Doctor X
Original Theatrical Date: December 02, 1939
Available Now on DVD Collection and Digital
A hotshot reporter and a young doctor team up to investigate a series of grisly murders and a mysterious sample of synthetic blood.
The Return of Doctor X is more of a curio than a full-fledged horror movie, as it has Humphrey Bogart,...
Tarzan Finds a Son!
Original Theatrical Date: June 16, 1939
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Tarzan, Jane and Cheetah find a baby boy, the only survivor of a plane crash deep in the African jungle. Five years later, "Boy's" relatives find him and want to take him back to England and his inheritance, but he must first rescue Tarzan and Jane...
WB Q&A - George Feltenstein
Today the incredibly popular Warner Archive Collection (WAC, or "whack" as it’s known around the studio) celebrates its sixth birthday. A pioneering initiative in which deep catalog titles from the Warner Bros. Film Library are released on...
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Original Theatrical Date: May 06, 1939
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In the wake of a trial that convicted four Nazi agents of spying against the U.S., Warner Bros. became the first Hollywood studio to fire a salvo at Hitler’s Germany. Months before World War II erupted it released this thriller based on revelations...
Fifth Avenue Girl
Original Theatrical Date: September 22, 1939
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Manufacturing executive Alfred Borden (Walter Connolly) walks through his luxurious Manhattan home, singing Happy Birthday to himself. His family—from inattentive wife (Verree Teasdale) to insouciant son (Tim Holt) to a giddy daughter (Kathryn Adams...
The Saint in London
Original Theatrical Date: June 30, 1939
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Many years before Roger Moore donned the halo of The Saint, George Sanders played Simon Templar in this series of five mysteries. Sanders had yet to cement his acting reputation playing the ultimate in cads, and brings his worldly air of charm, wit...
35 From '39
It’s been more than 75 years since 1939, the year that has long been called the greatest year of movies by film buffs and historians alike. So what made that single year so special? Or is this just another case of revisionist history? When it...
Infinite Crisis Hits Prime Time
The beta is over and Infinite Crisis is ready for prime time with today’s official launch! Check out all the launch day Steam deals, and learn about what rewards beta players are receiving today. Join the celebration with limited-...#TBT: Will Ferrell
Let’s face it, as March Madness enters the "Sweet 16" today most of our brackets at this point have just enough winning picks to trick the more optimistic among us into thinking that we’ve got a hope in hell at the end of it all. For the...
Sharky's Machine
Original Theatrical Date: December 18, 1981
Available Now on Blu-ray and Digital
Burt Reynolds stars in and directs this atmospheric, volatile action thriller about an Atlanta cop whose gung-ho tactics on a narcotics case get him demoted to the vice squad. There he transforms a colorful crew into a machine aimed at bigger prey:...
Convergence: DC’s Multiverse Experience
Back in November, DC Comics announced Convergence—their massive two-month publishing event—that kicks off in April and runs through May. Well, that launch day arrives this Wednesday! This is an amazing multiversal crossover event where fans will get...
The Babe Ruth Story
Original Theatrical Date: September 06, 1948
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What do you do with a pitcher whose dominance has helped his team claim two world-championship banners? If the pitcher is burly lefty George Herman Ruth, you banish him from the mound, put a bat in his hand and watch him clout one record-setting...
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Original Theatrical Date: April 13, 1949
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Whether it's Batter up! or Curtain Up!, Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly are ready when they play early-1900s vaudevillians who spend the winter flinging the on-stage blarney and the summer flinging the old horsehide for baseball's defending world...