As children, Zouzou and Jean are paired in a traveling circus as twins: she’s dark, he’s light. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
The Widow from Monte Carlo (1935) Arthur Greville Collins, Warren William, Dolores del Rio, Louise Fazenda
Blackmail puts a social climber (Louise Fazenda) and a suitor (Warren William) in a duchess’s (Dolores del Río) good graces. Read More »
Charlie Chan’s Secret (1936) Gordon Wiles, Warner Oland, Rosina Lawrence, Charles Quigley
An ocean liner sinks off Honolulu and Allen Colby, heir to millions Read More »
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) John Cromwell, Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, C. Aubrey Smith
After the death of Cedric (‘Ceddie’)’s English father, he and his mother live together in Brooklyn. Read More »
Society Smugglers (1939) Joe May, Preston Foster, Irene Hervey, Walter Woolf King
The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds. Read More »
Mary Jane’s Pa (1935) William Keighley, Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, Tom Brown
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Read More »
The Spider (1931) Kenneth MacKenna, William Cameron Menzies, Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, El Brendel
The great Chartrand (Edmund Lowe) can make people disappear and his assistant, Alexander, dazzles the crowd with his psychic abilities. Read More »
Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1930) Géza von Bolváry, Walter Janssen, Oskar Karlweis, Willi Forst
Toni Hofer and brothers Vicki and Nicki Mahler are working on a new operetta. Read More »
The Escape (1939) Ricardo Cortez, Kane Richmond, Amanda Duff, June Gale
An embittered Louie Peronni (Edward Norris) returns from prison to find that his sister Read More »
Cross Fire (1933) Otto Brower, Tom Keene, Betty Furness, Edgar Kennedy
Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. Read More »
Red Ensign (1934) Michael Powell, Leslie Banks, Carol Goodner, Frank Vosper
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard (when we still built ships). Read More »
Lady for a Day (1933) Frank Capra, Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee
Apple Annie is an indigent woman who has always written to her daughter in Spain that she is a member of New York’s high society. Read More »
Wild Girl (1932) Raoul Walsh, Charles Farrell, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy
Bret Harte’s story of Salomy Jane,a California mountain girl Read More »
Tillie and Gus (1933) Francis Martin, W.C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, Baby LeRoy
Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt Read More »
Ourselves Alone (1936) Brian Desmond Hurst, Walter Summers, Antoinette Cellier, Niall MacGinnis, Maire O’Neill
One of the most significant films ever made about the Troubles in Ireland Read More »