This Nazi propaganda film chronicles the rise of the German Air Force (“Luftwaffe”) from World War I until Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Knight Without Armour (1937) Jacques Feyder, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh
Because he can pass as a Russian, A.J. Fothergill is recruited to spy on the revolutionary movement in Russia in 1913. Read More »
Penrod and Sam (1931) William Beaudine, Leon Janney, Frank Coghlan Jr., Cameo the Dog
Two mischievous schoolboys, Penrod and Sam, are constantly in trouble at school. They start their own club, the In-Or-In club, of which they are the only members. Read More »
She Done Him Wrong (1933) Lowell Sherman, Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine Read More »
The Crusades (1935) Cecil B. DeMille, Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith
The Third Crusade as it didn’t happen. King Richard Coeur de Lion goes on the crusade to avoid marrying Princess Alice of France Read More »
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) Henry Hathaway, Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans. Read More »
Navy Wife (1935) Allan Dwan, Claire Trevor, Ralph Bellamy, Jane Darwell
Hawaiian naval nurse Trevor weds widowed officer Bellamy partly because he has a crippled daughter. Read More »
Crime Ring (1938) Leslie Goodwins, Allan Lane, Frances Mercer, Clara Blandick
Newspaper reporter Joe Ryan and District Attorney Thomas Redwine strike a deal. Read More »
The Magnificent Fraud (1939) Robert Florey, Akim Tamiroff, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Boland
In this lively programmer a con man hires a character actor to masqueraded as the recently assassinated dictator of a tiny Latin American country Read More »
Wooden Crosses (1932) Raymond Bernard, Pierre Blanchar, Gabriel Gabrio, Charles Vanel
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. Read More »
Carnival (1935) Walter Lang, Lee Tracy, Sally Eilers, Jimmy Durante
“Chick” Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names “Poochy.” Read More »
Personal Column (1939) Robert Siodmak, Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir, Marie Déa
After one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man who she met through a personal column advert Read More »
Smart Money (1931) Alfred E. Green, Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp
Nick Venizelos, an immigrant Greek barber, has an uncommon affinity for poker and other sorts of wagering and a group of his friends bankroll him in a big game Read More »
Escape from Yesterday (1935) Julien Duvivier, Annabella, Jean Gabin, Robert Le Vigan
Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. Read More »
Sunny (1930) William A. Seiter, Marilyn Miller, Lawrence Gray, Joe Donahue
To be near the fella she loves, an English bareback rider dons dungarees and cap to pass as a boy stows away to America Read More »