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A list of British films released in 1939.
1939
| Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
| 1939
|
| All Living Things |
Andrew Buchanan |
Catherine Lacey, Michael Gainsborough |
Drama short |
[1]
|
| The Arsenal Stadium Mystery |
Thorold Dickinson |
Leslie Banks, Greta Gynt |
Mystery |
|
| Ask a Policeman |
Marcel Varnel |
Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott |
Comedy |
|
| Beyond Our Horizon |
Norman Walker |
Milton Rosmer, Josephine Wilson, Jimmy Hanley |
Drama Short |
[2]
|
| Black Eyes |
Herbert Brenon |
Otto Kruger, Mary Maguire |
Drama |
|
| Black Limelight |
Paul L. Stein |
Joan Marion, Raymond Massey |
Crime |
|
| Blind Folly |
Reginald Denham |
Clifford Mollison, Lilli Palmer |
Comedy |
|
| The Body Vanished |
Walter Tennyson |
Anthony Hume, C. Denier Warren |
Crime drama |
|
| Cheer Boys Cheer |
Walter Forde |
Edmund Gwenn, Nova Pilbeam, Jimmy O'Dea |
Comedy |
|
| Come On George! |
Anthony Kimmins |
George Formby, Pat Kirkwood, Ronald Shiner |
Comedy |
|
| Confidential Lady |
Arthur B. Woods |
Stewart Rome, Jane Baxter, Ben Lyon |
Drama |
|
| The Dark Eyes of London |
Walter Summers |
Bela Lugosi, Greta Gynt, Hugh Williams |
Horror |
|
| Dead Men are Dangerous |
Harold French |
Robert Newton, John Warwick, Googie Withers |
Thriller |
|
| Discoveries |
Redd Davis |
Carroll Levis, Issy Bonn |
Variety revue |
|
| Down Our Alley |
George A. Cooper |
Hughie Green, Sylvia Saetre, Wally Patch |
Musical comedy |
|
| The Face at the Window |
George King |
Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor |
Thriller |
|
| Flying Fifty-Five |
Reginald Denham |
Derrick de Marney, Nancy Burne, Marius Goring |
Drama |
|
| The Four Feathers |
Zoltan Korda |
Ralph Richardson, John Clements |
Adventure |
|
| The Four Just Men |
Walter Forde |
Frank Lawton, Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Francis L. Sullivan |
Thriller |
|
| French Without Tears |
Anthony Asquith |
Ray Milland |
Comedy |
|
| The Frozen Limits |
Marcel Varnel |
The Crazy Gang |
Comedy |
|
| The Gang's All Here |
Thornton Freeland |
Jack Buchanan, Googie Withers |
Comedy |
|
| A Gentleman's Gentleman |
Roy William Neill |
Eric Blore, Marie Lohr |
Comedy |
|
| A Girl Must Live |
Carol Reed |
Margaret Lockwood, Renée Houston, Lilli Palmer |
Comedy |
|
| The Good Old Days |
Roy William Neill |
Max Miller, Hal Walters |
Comedy |
|
| Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
Sam Wood |
Robert Donat, Greer Garson |
Drama |
Number 72 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films
|
| Happy Event |
Patrick Brunner |
Diana Magwood, H. Seaton, Gordon Leslie |
Drama short |
|
| Hell's Cargo |
Harold Huth |
Walter Rilla, Kim Peacock |
Adventure |
|
| His Lordship Goes to Press |
Maclean Rogers |
June Clyde, Hugh Williams |
Comedy |
|
| Home from Home |
Herbert Smith |
Sandy Powell, René Ray |
Comedy/drama |
|
| Hospital Hospitality |
William Christie |
Wally Patch, Finlay Currie, George Bass, Jr. |
Comedy short |
[3]
|
| I Killed the Count |
Frederic Zelnik |
Ben Lyon, Syd Walker |
Comedy |
|
| I Met a Murderer |
Roy Kellino |
James Mason, Pamela Mason |
Thriller |
|
| Inquest |
Ray Boulting |
Elizabeth Allen, Herbert Lomas |
Crime |
|
| Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday |
Walter Forde |
Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim |
Comedy/crime
|
| Jamaica Inn |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Emlyn Williams |
Drama |
|
| Just like a Woman |
Paul L. Stein |
Felix Aylmer, Jeanne De Casalis |
Comedy |
|
| The Lambeth Walk |
Albert de Courville |
Lupino Lane, Sally Gray |
Comedy |
|
| Let's Be Famous |
Walter Forde |
Jimmy O'Dea, Betty Driver |
Comedy |
|
| The Lion Has Wings |
Various |
Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson |
War |
|
| Lucky to Me |
Thomas Bentley |
Stanley Lupino, Phyllis Brooks |
Comedy |
|
| Me and My Pal |
Thomas Bentley |
Dave Willis, Patricia Kirkwood |
Comedy |
|
| Men Without Honour |
Widgey R. Newman |
Ian Fleming, Grace Arnold |
Crime |
|
| The Mikado |
Victor Schertzinger |
Kenny Baker, Martyn Green, Sydney Granville |
Musical comedy |
|
| The Mind of Mr. Reeder |
Jack Raymond |
Will Fyffe, Kay Walsh |
Mystery |
|
| Murder in Soho |
Norman Lee |
Jack La Rue, Bernard Lee |
Crime |
|
| Murder Will Out |
Roy William Neill |
John Loder, Jane Baxter |
Crime |
|
| Music Hall Parade |
Oswald Mitchell |
Richard Norris, Charles Sewell |
Musical |
[4]
|
| The Mysterious Mr. Davis |
Claude Autant-Lara |
Henry Kendall, Kathleen Kelly |
Drama |
|
| The Nursemaid Who Disappeared |
Arthur B. Woods |
Arthur Margetson, Peter Coke |
Crime |
|
| Oh Dear Uncle |
Richard Llewellyn |
Frank O'Brien, Syd Crossley |
Comedy short |
|
| Old Mother Riley, MP |
Oswald Mitchell |
Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane |
Comedy |
|
| On the Night of the Fire |
Brian Desmond Hurst |
Ralph Richardson, Diana Wynyard |
Crime |
|
| The Outsider |
Paul L. Stein |
George Sanders, Mary Maguire |
Drama |
|
| Over the Moon |
Thornton Freeland |
Rex Harrison, Ursula Jeans |
Comedy |
|
| Pandamonium |
Widgey R. Newman |
Hal Walters, Jane Griffiths |
Comedy short |
|
| Pathetone Parade of 1939 |
Fred Watts |
Robb Wilton, Mantovani |
Variety short |
[5]
|
| Pathetone Parade of 1940 |
Fred Watts |
Robb Wilton, Patrica Rossborough, Nosmo King |
Variety short |
|
| Poison Pen |
Paul L. Stein |
Flora Robson, Reginald Tate, Ann Todd |
Drama |
|
| Prince of Peace |
Donald Carter |
Pamela Kellino |
Drama short |
|
| Q Planes |
Tim Whelan |
Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Valerie Hobson |
World War II |
|
| Secret Journey |
John Baxter |
Basil Radford, Peter Gawthorne |
Thriller |
|
| Shadow of Death |
Harry S. Marks |
Donald Calthrop, Ellen Pollock |
Drama short |
|
| She Couldn't Say No |
Graham Cutts |
Tommy Trinder, Fred Emney |
Comedy |
|
| Shipyard Sally |
Monty Banks |
Gracie Fields, Sydney Howard |
Comedy |
|
| The Silent Battle |
Herbert Mason |
Rex Harrison, Valerie Hobson |
Thriller |
|
| So This Is London |
Thornton Freeland |
Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton |
Comedy |
|
| Sons of the Sea |
Maurice Elvey |
Leslie Banks, Kay Walsh |
Drama |
|
| The Spy in Black |
Michael Powell |
Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Marius Goring |
World War I |
First collaboration between Powell and Pressburger
|
| Stolen Life |
Paul Czinner |
Elisabeth Bergner, Michael Redgrave |
Drama |
|
| Sword of Honour |
Maurice Elvey |
Geoffrey Toone, Sally Gray |
Drama |
|
| There Ain't No Justice |
Pen Tennyson |
Jimmy Hanley, Edward Rigby |
Drama |
|
| This Man in Paris |
David MacDonald, |
Barry K. Barnes, Valerie Hobson, Alastair Sim |
Comedy/mystery |
Sequel to This Man Is News
|
| Too Dangerous to Live |
Anthony Hankey, Leslie Norman |
Sebastian Shaw, Anna Konstam |
Crime |
|
| Traitor Spy |
Walter Summers |
Bruce Cabot, Marta Labarr, Tamara Desni |
Drama |
|
| Trouble Brewing |
Anthony Kimmins |
George Formby, Googie Withers |
Comedy |
|
| Trunk Crime |
Roy Boulting |
Manning Whiley, Barbara Everest |
Thriller |
|
| Two Minutes |
Donald Taylor |
Walter Hudd, Edana Romney |
Drama short |
[6]
|
| Wanted by Scotland Yard |
Norman Lee |
James Stephenson, Betty Lynne |
Crime |
|
| What Men Live By |
Donald Taylor, Vernon Sewell |
Esmond Knight, Eliot Makeham, Olga Lindo |
Drama short |
|
| What Would You Do, Chums? |
John Baxter |
Syd Walker, Jean Gillie |
Drama |
|
| Yes, Madam? |
Norman Lee |
Bobby Howes, Diana Churchill |
Musical/comedy |
|
| Young Man's Fancy |
Robert Stevenson |
Griffith Jones, Anna Lee |
Comedy |
|
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