This drama chronicles the devoted love of a woman who tries to reform her lover, a black marketeer with a compulsive gambling problem. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) Rowland V. Lee, Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern
Edmond Dantes is imprisoned in the Chateau d’If without trial, for carrying a message from Napoleon in exile on Elba. Read More »
The Captain from Kopenick (1931) Richard Oswald, Max Adalbert, Ernst Dernburg, Willi Schur
Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain’s uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen Read More »
Midnight Mary (1933) William A. Wellman, Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Ricardo Cortez
A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager Read More »
The Girl of the Golden West (1938) Robert Z. Leonard, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Walter Pidgeon
Mary Robbins is a moderately educated, beautiful, young woman who owns the saloon called “The Poker”. Read More »
Fours a Crowd (1938) Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell
Robert will do anything to get the big account that has eluded him. His public relations business makes public angels of rich scoundrels. Read More »
Storms of Passion (1932) Robert Siodmak, Emil Jannings, Anna Sten, Trude Hesterberg
Brother Rat (1938) William Keighley, Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Johnnie Davis
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father. Read More »
70,000 Witnesses (1932) Ralph Murphy, Phillips Holmes, Dorothy Jordan, Charles Ruggles
College football player (Phillips Holmes)is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother(Lew Cody). Read More »
No Blood Relation (1932) Mikio Naruse, Yoshiko Okada, Shin’yô Nara, Yukiko Tsukuba
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim – with the help of her gangster brother – the daughter she abandoned years before. Read More »
Marie Antoinette (1938) W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier, Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore
The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. Read More »
David Copperfield (1935) George Cukor, Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph
When David’s father dies, his mother remarries. His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean and cruel view on how to raise a child. Read More »
Dancers in the Dark (1932) David Burton, Miriam Hopkins, Jack Oakie, William Collier Jr.
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. Read More »
Moonlight on the Prairie (1935) D. Ross Lederman, Dick Foran, Smoke, Sheila Bromley
Ace returns to the town where he is suspected of murder. He quickly become involved in the scheme to keep Barbara Roberts from reaching her ranch. Read More »
Life Begins at 40 (1935) George Marshall, Will Rogers, Richard Cromwell, George Barbier
In small-town America the easy-going publisher of the local paper finds himself in opposition to the local banker Read More »