1938 National Board of Review – Best Actor Winner
Algiers
Joseph Calleia
Beautiful Gaby meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah.
Angels with Dirty Faces
James Cagney
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
Boys Town
Spencer Tracy
When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn’t have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to do something about. An advocate of child…
Christine
Pierre Blanchar
Christine, newly widowed and consumed by the memory of a ball she attended age 16, decides to track down the men she danced with that night and discover their fates.
Four Daughters
John Garfield
Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, has passed on his love of music to his four early adult daughters – Thea, Emma, Kay and Ann – who live with him and his sister, the …
Grand Illusion
Pierre Fresnay
During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
Holiday
Lew Ayres
A young man in love with a girl from a rich family finds his unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée’s eccentric sister and long-suffering brother.
Marie Antoinette
Robert Morley
The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.
Pygmalion
Wendy Hiller
A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.
South Riding
Ralph Richardson
“Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but ‘the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, …
The Adventures of Chico
Chico
A Mexican boy without young neighbors to play with, befriends a diverse group of desert animals. (1938; B&W)
The Beachcomber
Charles Laughton
In the Dutch islands, the sister of a pious missionary attempts to reform a womanizing, drunken beach bum.
The Citadel
Robert Donat
Andrew Manson, a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its …
To the Victor
Will Fyffe
A story about Cumbrian shepherds and their skilled sheepdogs. Grumpy old McAdam with aggressive Black Wull and civilized David Moore with educated Owd Bob compete to win the sheepdogs’s cup. David also tries to win McAdam’s daughter’s heart.