Ma Delano (La Verne) runs a boardwalk penny arcade, living upstairs with her sons (Cagney and Gallagher) and daughter (Knapp). Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
The Age of Consent (1932) Gregory La Cava, Dorothy Wilson, Arline Judge, Richard Cromwell
The young Michael feels that his girlfriend has betrayed him and he has caught citing another boy. Read More »
The Emperor Jones (1933) Dudley Murphy, William C. de Mille, Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson
At a Baptist prayer meeting, the preacher leads a prayer for Brutus Jones, who is leaving to become a railway porter. Read More »
Cain and Mabel (1936) Lloyd Bacon, Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins
The managers of heavyweight champion Larry Cain and Broadway musical star Mabel O’Dare scheme up a romance to give the celebrities more glamour. Read More »
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin, Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn
An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils Read More »
A Night at the Opera (1935) Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
The Marx Brothers take on high society. Two lovers who are both in opera are prevented from being together by the man’s lack of acceptance as an operatic tenor. Read More »
Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930) Alfred E. Green, Claudia Dell, Ernest Torrence, Walter Pidgeon
In 1793, Kitty Bellairs travels to Bath, Somerset for a vacation. Read More »
If You Could Only Cook (1935) William A. Seiter, Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo
Auto magnate James Buchanan has a fiancée who doesn’t love him and a board of directors who won’t listen to him. Read More »
Blackmailer (1936) Gordon Wiles, William Gargan, Florence Rice, H.B. Warner
An inept Police Inspector Killian (Paul Hurst) is assigned to investigate a blackmail case Read More »
Hello, Sister! (1933) Alan Crosland, Erich von Stroheim, James Dunn, Zasu Pitts, Boots Mallory
Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together. Read More »
Man spricht über Jacqueline (1937) Werner Hochbaum, Wera Engels, Albrecht Schoenhals, Sabine Peters
Wera Engels plays Jacqueline who is the subject of some gossip due to her amorous affairs, she marries a diplomat and their relationship develops in a stormy way. Read More »
The Face at the Window (1939) George King, Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Aubrey Mallalieu
In 1880, the criminal called The Face is responsible for a murderous rampage in France. Read More »
Numbered Men (1930) Mervyn LeRoy, Bernice Claire, Conrad Nagel, Raymond Hackett
Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo Read More »
Moonlight Murder (1936) Edwin L. Marin, Chester Morris, Madge Evans, Leo Carrillo
Opera star Gino D’Acosta (Leo Carrillo), due to perform in the open air of the Hollywood Bowl Read More »
Checkmate (1935) George Pearson, Felix Aylmer, Evelyn Foster, Sally Gray
An under-cover detective lodges with a family as he tries to foil a gang of jewellery thieves. Read More »