Drama Movies of 1938
Angels With Dirty Faces
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien) grow up on opposite sides of the fence: ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
The Dawn Patrol
This 1938 remake of Howard Hawks' 1930 film The Dawn Patrol is faithful to the original's ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
Jezebel
In 1938, Jezebel was widely regarded as Warner Bros.' ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
Little Miss Broadway
Child star Shirley Temple was getting a bit long in the tooth (at age 10!) by the time she made Little Miss Broadway. Facing the possibility that Temple's ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
Marie Antoinette
M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of M.G.M. Norma Shearer. Shearer plays the title ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
In Old Chicago
In Old Chicago was 20th Century-Fox's spin on MGM's San Francisco--a personal saga played out against the ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
Port of Shadows
Adapted from a novel by Jacques Prevert, Port of Shadows (Quai des brumes) stars that eternal victim of society, Jean Gabin. Having deserted the French army, Gabin ducks into a back alley and meets the lovely ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
A Letter of Introduction
A master blend of high comedy and tense emotional drama, A Letter of Introduction reteams Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, and Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, who'd previously costarred in the negligible ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
Blockade
Since the United States was officially neutral in the Spanish Civil War, the struggle of the ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
Boys Town
Spencer Tracy won his second Oscar for his ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
La Bête Humaine
Based on a novel by Emile Zola, La Bete Humaine weaves a mesmerizing tale of a tragic triangle. Train engineer Jean Gabin lusts after Simone ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
Algiers
This Hollywood remake of the French Pepe le Moko adheres so slavishly to its source that it utilizes stock footage from the original film, and even picked its actors on the basis of their resemblance to ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
Sinners in Paradise
At one time Universal's "prestige" director, James Whale had slipped off the A-list by the end of the 1930s; even so, his films remained both intriguing and entertaining. In Whale's Sinners in Paradise, an airplane cracks up during a storm and ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
Wives under Suspicion
James Whale's Wives Under Suspicion is remake of Whale's own 1933 production A Kiss Before the Mirror, with a few noticeable concessions for the more militant censors of 1938. ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
Just Around the Corner
Just Around the Corner is the film in which little Shirley Temple ends the Depression all by herself! The story starts realistically enough, with 10-year-old Penny Hale (Temple) sharing a basement apartment with her widowed ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
Little Tough Guy
The first of the "splinter" groups to emerge from the Dead End Kids was the Little Tough Guys, consisting of veteran Dead-Enders Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly and David Gorcey (Hally ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
Under the Big Top
Veteran cinematographer Karl Brown also had several directorial efforts to his ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
Gang Bullets
Gang Bullets was one of a myriad of late-1930s Monogram crime pictures, bearing such interchangable titles as I Am a Criminal, ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
King of the Newsboys
In this drama, a young man aspires to a life of wealth and power in the newspaper business. ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
The Flying Fists
In this boxing drama, a prizefighter fights for the love of the woman who ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
Female Fugitive
In this crime drama, an innocent wife has no idea that her husband makes his living ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
Prison Nurse
The title character in Republic's Prison Nurse is a "woman in white" named Judy, played by Marian Marsh. Together with her friend Pepper (Bernardine Hayes), Judy hires on at a maximum-security prison smack dab ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
Convicts at Large
In this crime drama, an escaped prisoner forces a dim-bulbed architect to exchange clothing with him. Later the bungler ends up on the seedy side of town in a dive where he inadvertently gets ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
Prison Train
Also known as People's Enemy, this is a low-budget surprise movie which depicts a convicted racketeer on his way across country to Alcatraz, where he ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
Delinquent Parents
Drawing heavily on both Madame X and Stella Dallas, this cheap exploitation-melodrama was produced by the ill-named Progressive ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Detstvo Gorkovo) was the first of Russian director Mark Donski's trilogy based upon Gorky's memoirs. Alexei Lyarsky plays the young Maxim, who ... [ Drama movie - 1938 ]
