Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1938

<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="25" leftmargin="50"> <TABLE> <TR bgcolor="#000000"><TD><img src=strip38banner.jpg width=100%> </TD></TR> <TR><TD> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Top Ten Films of 1938: World Premieres</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-1><br></Font> <Table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>1.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=holiday.html style="text-decoration:none">Holiday</a></b></Font> Dir. George Cukor. With Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>2.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">The Lady Vanishes</Font></b></Font> Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. With Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>3.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Alexander Nevsky</Font></b></Font> Dir. Sergei Eisenstein. With Nikolai Cherkassov, Nikolai Okhlopkov <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>4.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">The Adventures of Robin Hood</Font></b></Font> Dirs. Michael Curtiz & William Keighley. With Errol Flynn <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> </Table> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Reviews from 1938</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1> <Font Color="#009900">&#9733</Font> <b>= Full-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#0099CC">&#169</Font> <b> = Capsule-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#FF6600">&#9733</Font> <b>&nbsp= Blog Review</b> (New Window) </Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=holiday.html style="text-decoration:none">Holiday</a></b></Font> Dir. George Cukor. With Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=jezebel.html style="text-decoration:none">Jezebel</a></b></Font> Dir. William Wyler. With Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Fay Bainter <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#0099CC">&#169</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=whiteban.html style="text-decoration:none">White Banners</a></b></Font> Dir. Edmund Goulding. With Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1938</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>Unreviewed titles I have seen recently enough to grade</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Algiers</b></Font> Dir. John Cromwell. With Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Bluebeard's Eighth Wife</b></Font> Dir. Ernst Lubitsch. With Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Boys Town</b></Font> Dir. Norman Taurog. With Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Bringing Up Baby</b></Font> Dir. Howard Hawks. With Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Carefree</b></Font> Dir. Mark Sandrich. With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Comet over Broadway</b></Font> Dir. Busby Berkeley. With Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, John Litel <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Condemned Women</b></Font> Dir. Lew Landers. With Sally Eilers, Louis Hayward, Anne Shirley <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Great Waltz</b></Font> Dir. Julien Duvivier. With Fernand Gravet, Miliza Korjus, Luise Rainer <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Joy of Living</b></Font> Dir. Tay Garnett. With Irene Dunne, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Jean Dixon <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Kentucky</b></Font> Dir. David Butler. With Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b><a href=mariea38.html style="text-decoration:none">Marie Antoinette</a></b></Font> Dir. W.S. Van Dyke. With Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Pygmalion</b></Font> Dirs. Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard. With Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Shining Hour</b></Font> Dir. Frank Borzage. With Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Three Comrades</b></Font> Dir. Frank Borzage. With Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b><a href=youcant.html style="text-decoration:none">You Can't Take It with You</a></b></Font> Dir. Frank Capra. With Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <hr> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Still to Come from 1938</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Ten Most Enticing Prospects:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Angels with Dirty Faces</b></Font> Dir. Michael Curtiz. With James Cagney, Pat O'Brien<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>La B&#234te humaine</b></Font> Dir. Jean Renoir. With Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Four Daughters</b></Font> Dir. Michael Curtiz. With Claude Rains, Priscilla Lane, Lola Lane<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Mad Miss Manton</b></Font> Dir. Leigh Jason. With Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Olympia</b></Font> Dir. Leni Riefenstahl. Documentary about 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Port of Shadows</b></Font> Dir. Marcel Carn&#233. With Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Mich&#232le Morgan<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Shopworn Angel</b></Font> Dir. H.C. Potter. With James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Sidewalks of London</b></Font> Dir. Tim Whelan. With Vivien Leigh, Charles Laughton<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Sweethearts</b></Font> Dir. W.S. Van Dyke. With Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Wives under Suspicion</b></Font> Dir. James Whale. With Warren William, Gail Patrick<br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Further Research:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer</b></Font> Dir. Norman Taurog. With Tommy Kelly<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Alexander's Ragtime Band</b></Font> Dir. Henry King. With Tyrone Power, Alice Faye<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Baker's Wife</b></Font> Dir. Marcel Pagnol. With Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, Fernand Charpin<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Beachcomber</b></Font> Dir. Erich Pommer. With Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>A Christmas Carol</b></Font> Dir. Edwin L. Marin. With Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Citadel</b></Font> Dir. King Vidor. With Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Cowboy and the Lady</b></Font> Dir. H.C. Potter. With Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Dawn Patrol</b></Font> Dir. Edmund Goulding. With Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Divorce of Lady X</b></Font> Dir. Tim Whelan. With Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>If I Were King</b></Font> Dir. Frank Lloyd. With Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Mad About Music</b></Font> Dir. Norman Taurog. With Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Merrily We Live</b></Font> Dir. Norman Z. McLeod. With Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Of Human Hearts</b></Font> Dir. Clarence Brown. With James Stewart, Walter Huston<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Room Service</b></Font> Dir. William A. Seiter. With the Marx Brothers, Lucille Ball<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Sisters</b></Font> Dir. Anatole Litvak. With Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita Louise<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Storm in a Teacup</b></Font> Dirs. Ian Dalrymple & Victor Saville. With Rex Harrison<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Swing!</b></Font> Dir. Oscar Micheaux. With Cora Green, Larry Seymour, Hazel Diaz<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Test Pilot</b></Font> Dir. Victor Fleming. With Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Vivacious Lady</b></Font> Dir. George Stevens. With Ginger Rogers, James Stewart<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Young in Heart</b></Font> Dir. Richard Wallace. With Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.<br> <hr> <Font Face=Garamond> <table cellpadding=12><tr> <td>Trackbacks:</td> <td><strong><a href=movies38home.html target="_top">Permalink</a></strong></td> <td><strong><a href=movies38.html target="_top">1938</a></strong></td> <td><strong><a href=movarchs.html target="_top">Home</a></strong></td> <td><strong><a href="http://blog.nicksflickpicks.com" target="_new">Blog</a></strong></td> <td><strong><a href=email.html target="_top">E-Mail</a></strong></td> </tr></table> </Font> </center> </body>