Investigating a series of murders in Chinatown, wise-guy reporter Jason Barton is captured by the megalomaniacal Mr. Wong Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Dark Victory (1939) Edmund Goulding, Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Drama, Romance
Judith Traherne is at the height of young society when Dr. Frederick Steele diagnoses a brain tumor. Read More »
Gunga Din (1939) George Stevens, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen, Adventure, Comedy, War
Based loosely on the poem by Rudyard Kipling, this takes place in British India during the Thuggee uprising. Read More »
Great Expectations (1934) Stuart Walker, Henry Hull, Phillips Holmes, Jane Wyatt, Drama, Romance
Nine year-old orphan ‘Pip’ Pirrip lives with his harridan older sister and her hen-pecked but good-natured blacksmith husband Joe Gargery in rural, Regency-Period Britain. Read More »
Scarface (1932) Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson, Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Johnny Lovo rises to the head of the bootlegging crime syndicate on the south side of Chicago following the murder of former head, Big Louis Costillo. Read More »
Man Wanted (1932) William Dieterle, Kay Francis, David Manners, Una Merkel, Romance, Comedy, Drama
Lois is the editor of the 400 Magazine and is a work-a-holic. When Tom comes to her office to sell her a rowing machine, he leaves as her personal secretary. Read More »
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935) Stephen Roberts, Ronald Colman, Joan Bennett, Colin Clive, Comedy, Romance
The old British musical-hall ditty “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” provides the title for this lightweight Ronald Colman vehicle. Read More »
Stolen Death (1938) Nyrki Tapiovaara, Tuulikki Paananen, Ilmari Mänty, Santeri Karilo, Thriller
Thriller about activists, turn of the century, Finland fought to liberate the tyranny of Czarist Russia. Read More »
Bizarre, Bizarre (1937) Marcel Carné, Louis Jouvet, Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon, Comedy
In Victorian London, the botanist Irwin Molyneux and his wife Margaret Molyneux are bankrupted but still keeping the appearance due to the successful crime novels Read More »
All the Kings Horses (1935) Frank Tuttle, Carl Brisson, Mary Ellis, Edward Everett Horton, Comedy, Musical, Romance
King Rudolf XIV of Langenstein, is too busy to make love to his wife, Queen Elaine of Langenstein, and good Queen Elaine is upset royally about it. Read More »
Night After Night (1932) Archie Mayo, George Raft, Constance Cummings, Wynne Gibson, Comedy, Drama
A successful ex-boxer opens a high-class speakeasy in what once was the childhood home of a formerly rich society girl. Read More »
Hot Saturday (1932) William A. Seiter, Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott, Drama, Romance
Bank employee Ruth Brock has a reputation around town for being fast-and-easy but none of the panting suitors has made her yet. Read More »
Moonlight and Pretzels (1933) Karl Freund, Leo Carrillo, Mary Brian, Roger Pryor, Musical, Drama
A song plugger is stranded in a small town. There he meets a girl who later helps him to put on a show on Broadway. Read More »
Zenobia (1939) Gordon Douglas, Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, Comedy
A southern country doctor is called on by a visiting circus man to cure his sick elephant. Read More »
The Matrimonial Bed (1930) Michael Curtiz, Frank Fay, James Gleason, Lilyan Tashman, Comedy, Romance
It is the fifth anniversary of the death of Adolphe Noblet who died in a train wreck. Read More »