There have been a spate of London police murders, the victims always killed by a long knife (which the police know is a sword cane) Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
College Scandal (1935) Elliott Nugent, Arline Judge, Kent Taylor, Wendy Barrie
Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Read More »
He Knew Women (1930) Hugh Herbert, Lynn Shores, Lowell Sherman, Alice Joyce, David Manners
A Writer whose every whim is financed by rich widow. The writer seems to be insincere with her and he is loved by a poor women who is engaged to a wealthy man. Read More »
Ecstasy (1933) Gustav Machatý, Hedy Lamarr, Aribert Mog, Zvonimir Rogoz
Eva has just gotten married to an older gentleman, but discovers that he is obsessed with order in his life and doesn’t have much room for passion. Read More »
Stagecoach (1939) John Ford, John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine
A simple stagecoach trip is complicated by the fact that Geronimo is on the warpath in the area. Read More »
Rose-Marie (1936) W.S. Van Dyke, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Reginald Owen
Opera singer (Marie de Flor) seeks out fugitive brother in the Canadian wilderness. Read More »
Shanghai Express (1932) Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong
Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lil is on board than the fact that a civil war Read More »
Cavalleria (1936) Goffredo Alessandrini, Amedeo Nazzari, Elisa Cegani, Luigi Carini
Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Read More »
Arrowsmith (1931) John Ford, Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett
Based on a Sinclair Lewis novel “Martin Arrowsmith”. A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine. Read More »
The Devil Plays (1931) Richard Thorpe, Jameson Thomas, Florence Britton, Thomas E. Jackson
A mystery novelist’s detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed. Read More »
Gambling Lady (1934) Archie Mayo, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O’Brien
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee’s. Read More »
Ouanga (1936) George Terwilliger, Fredi Washington, Philip Brandon, Marie Paxton
In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on a white male neighbor, who has chosen a white woman over her for marriage. Read More »
True to the Navy (1930) Frank Tuttle, Clara Bow, Fredric March, Harry Green
While sailors are know far and wide as having a girl in every port, all of the sailors in the Pacific Fleet appear to have the same girl when in their home-port of San Diego Read More »
Wharf Angel (1934) William Cameron Menzies, George Somnes, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Dell, Preston Foster
On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright’s bar. Read More »
Forty Naughty Girls (1937) Edward F. Cline, James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Marjorie Lord
Police Inspector Oscar Piper and Hildegared Withers attend the opening night of a Broadway play in New York City Read More »