1938 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1938

Notable Films Released in 1938

U.S.A. unless stated

A

• Adiós Buenos Aires - (Argentina/Spain/Canada)
• The Adventures of Marco Polo, starring Gary Cooper and Basil Rathbone
• The Adventures of Robin Hood, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, directed by Norman Taurog
• Águila o sol (Heads or Tails), starring Cantinflas - (Mexico)
• Alexander Nevsky, directed by Sergei Eisenstein, starring Nikolai Cherkasov - (U.S.S.R.)
• Alexander's Ragtime Band, starring Tyrone Power, Don Ameche, Alice Faye
• Algiers, starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr
• The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, starring Edward G. Robinson
• Angels with Dirty Faces, starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart

B

• La Femme du Boulanger (The Baker's Wife), directed by Marcel Pagnol, starring Raimu - (France)
• Bank Holiday, starring Margaret Lockwood - (Britain)
• Block-Heads, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• Blondie, starring Penny Singleton
• Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, starring Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert
• Boys Town, starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney
• Bringing up Baby, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn - number 14 on the American Film Institute list of best comedy films

C

• Carefree, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• Charlie Chan in Honolulu, starring Sidney Toler
• A Christmas Carol, starring Reginald Owen
• The Citadel, directed by King Vidor, starring Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell - (Britain)
• Climbing High, starring Michael Redgrave and Jessie Matthews - (Britain)
• Cocoanut Grove, starring Fred MacMurray
• Convict 99, starring Will Hay - (Britain)

D

• Dangerous to Know, starring Anna May Wong and Akim Tamiroff
• The Dawn Patrol, starring Errol Flynn
• Diao Chan - (China)
• The Divorce of Lady X, with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon - (Britain)
• The Drum, with Sabu and Raymond Massey - (Britain)
• Ducháček Will Fix It (Ducháček to zařídí) - (Czechoslovakia)

EF

• Ferdinand the Bull, a Disney animated short
• Fools for Scandal, starring Carole Lombard
• Four Daughters, starring Claude Rains
• Four Men and a Prayer, directed by John Ford, starring Loretta Young, Richard Greene, David Niven
• Four's a Crowd, starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell, Patric Knowles

GH

• The Gaunt Stranger, starring Sonnie Hale - (Britain)
• Having Wonderful Time, starring Ginger Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
• Holiday, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant
• Hotel du Nord, directed by Marcel Carné - (France)
• La Bête humaine (The Human Beast), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin and Simone Simon - (France)

IJK

• If I Were King, starring Ronald Colman
• J'accuse!, directed by Abel Gance - (France)
• Jezebel, starring Bette Davis and Henry Fonda
• Judge Hardy's Children, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
• Just Around the Corner, starring Shirley Temple
• Kentucky, starring Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan.
• Kidnapped, starring Warner Baxter and Freddie Bartholomew
• Kilómetro 111 - (Argentina)
• King Kong Appears in Edo (Edo ni Arawareta Kingu Kongu) - (Japan)

LM

• The Lady Vanishes, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood - (Britain)
• Little Miss Broadway, starring Shirley Temple, Jimmy Durante, Edna May Oliver
• Love Finds Andy Hardy, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
• Mad About Music, starring Deanna Durbin and Herbert Marshall
• The Mad Miss Manton, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda
• A Man to Remember, starring Anne Shirley and Edward Ellis
• Marie Antoinette, starring Norma Shearer and Tyrone Power
• Merrily We Live, starring Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett, Billie Burke, Patsy Kelly, Billie Burke
• Mollenard, directed by Robert Siodmak - (France)
• The Mountain Calls (Der Berg Ruft) - (Germany)
• Mr. Moto's Gamble, starring Peter Lorre and Keye Luke
• Mr. Wong, Detective, starring Boris Karloff

NOP

• Of Human Hearts, starring Walter Huston, James Stewart, Beulah Bondi
• Old Bones of the River, starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt - (Britain)
• Olympia, a documentary by Leni Riefenstahl - (Germany)
• Out West with the Hardys, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
• Paradise for Three, starring Frank Morgan, Robert Young, Mary Astor
• Port of Shadows (Le quai des brumes), directed by Marcel Carné, starring Jean Gabin and Michel Simon - (France)
• Professor Mamlock - (U.S.S.R.)
• Pygmalion, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller - (Britain)

QR

• Radio City Revels, starring Jack Oakie
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, starring Shirley Temple
• Red River Range, starring John Wayne
• Room Service, starring the Marx Brothers and Lucille Ball

S

• The Saint in New York, starring Louis Hayward
• Save a Little Sunshine, starring Patricia Kirkwood and Tommy Trinder - (Britain)
• The Shopworn Angel, starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan
• Sidewalks of London, starring Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison - (Britain)
• The Sisters, starring Errol Flynn and Bette Davis
• Sixty Glorious Years, starring Anna Neagle - (Britain)
• Škola základ života - (Czechoslovakia)
• A Slight Case of Murder, starring Edward G. Robinson
• Suez, starring Tyrone Power and Loretta Young
• Sweethearts, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy

TUV

• Test Pilot, starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy
• There Goes My Heart, Fredric March, Virginia Bruce, Patsy Kelly
• They Drive by Night, starring Emlyn Williams and Ernest Thesiger - (Britain)
• Three Comrades, starring Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone
• Tip-Off Girls, starring Mary Carlisle and Lloyd Nolan
• Valley of the Giants, starring Wayne Morris and Claire Trevor
• Vivacious Lady, starring Ginger Rogers and James Stewart
• Volga-Volga - (U.S.S.R.)

WXYZ

• White Banners, starring Claude Rains and Fay Bainter
• A Woman's Face (En kvinnas ansikte), starring Ingrid Bergman - (Sweden)
• You Can't Take It with You, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore - Oscars for best picture and director
• The Young in Heart, starring Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paulette Goddard
• La Zandunga, starring Lupe Vélez and Arturo de Córdova - (Mexico)