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Tag Archives: 1930s
Rain (1932) Lewis Milestone, Fred Howard, Ben Hendricks Jr., William Gargan
For residents on the idyllic South Seas island of Pago Pago, life is simple until Read More »
Gambling Ship (1933) Louis J. Gasnier, Max Marcin, Cary Grant, Benita Hume, Jack La Rue
A professional gambler masquerading as a businessman boards a train and sets off across the country. Read More »
Warm Current AKA Danryû (1939) Kôzaburô Yoshimura, Mieko Takamine, Shin Saburi, Hideo Fujino
After his benefactor Shima falls ill, Hibiki (Shin Saburi) sets out to rebuild the hospital that Shima had run. Read More »
Moon Over Morocco AKA Les cinq gentlemen maudits (1931) Julien Duvivier, Harry Baur, René Lefèvre, Rosine Deréan
Five gentlemen are on vacation in Morocco; one of them takes off a Muslim girl’s veil Read More »
Make Way for a Lady (1936) David Burton, Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael
Pulp novelist Valerie Broughton moves close to her publisher, Christopher Drew Read More »
Till We Meet Again (1936) Robert Florey, Herbert Marshall, Gertrude Michael, Lionel Atwill
In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) Read More »
In Caliente (1935) Lloyd Bacon, Dolores del Rio, Pat O’Brien, Leo Carrillo
Magazine editor Pat O’Brien gives Mexican dancer Dolores Del Rio a bad write-up Read More »
The Youth of Maxim AKA Yunost Maksima (1935) Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it… “an impressive and technically outstanding Read More »
Tales of the Uncanny AKA Unheimliche Geschichten (1932) Richard Oswald, Paul Wegener, Maria Koppenhöfer, Blandine Ebinger
A crazed scientist, Morder (Paul Wegener), driven even crazier by his nagging wife Read More »
They Met in a Taxi (1936) Alfred E. Green, Chester Morris, Fay Wray, Raymond Walburn
Taxicab driver Jimmy Donlin (Chester Morris) is hailed by Mary Trenton (Fay Wray) Read More »
Nancy Drew… Trouble Shooter (1939) William Clemens, Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel
Nancy Drew clears her Uncle Matt of murder charges when she exposes the real murderers. Read More »
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) Michael Curtiz, James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart
Two boyhood friends, Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly have taken different paths in life. Read More »
The Straits of Love and Hate AKA Aien kyo (1937) Kenji Mizoguchi, Taizô Fukami, Akira Harue, Kiyoshi Katô
A young couple of lovers want to travel to Tokyo to work and form a family there Read More »
Secret Service of the Air (1939) Noel M. Smith, Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Ila Rhodes
Illegal aliens are being flown in from Mexico by small plane. Read More »