When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Strange Interlude (1932) Robert Z. Leonard, Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Drama
The thoughts that people think are never the same as the words they speak – and in this movie, we can hear the thoughts. Read More »
Four Frightened People (1934) Cecil B. DeMille, Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, Adventure, Drama
Four passengers escape their bubonic plague-infested ship and land on the coast of a wild jungle. Read More »
Only Yesterday (1933) John M. Stahl, Margaret Sullavan, John Boles, Edna May Oliver, Drama, Romance
A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman Read More »
An Inn in Tokyo (1935) Yasujirô Ozu, Takeshi Sakamoto, Yoshiko Okada, Chôko Iida, Drama
Unemployed Kihachi and his two sons struggle to make ends meet. But that doesn’t keep Kihachi from wooing single mother Otaka. Read More »
The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933) Archie Mayo, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Romance, Drama
Prizefighter Jimmy Dolan accidentally kills a man at a party and escapes. Read More »
Downstairs (1932) Monta Bell, John Gilbert, Paul Lukas, Virginia Bruce, Drama, Romance
At the wedding of Albert and Anna, Karl, the new chauffeur, arrives. Albert is the head butler, second generation to the Baron. Read More »
Virtue (1932) Edward Buzzell, Carole Lombard, Pat O’Brien, Ward Bond, Drama
A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver Read More »
The Vagabond King (1930) Ludwig Berger, Ernst Lubitsch, Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, O.P. Heggie, Musical, Romance
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. Read More »
Vagabond Lady (1935) Sam Taylor, Robert Young, Evelyn Venable, Reginald Denny, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. Read More »
The Devil to Pay! (1930) George Fitzmaurice, Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Frederick Kerr, Comedy, Romance
Spendthrift Willie Leyland again returns to the family home in London penniless. His father is none too pleased but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. Read More »
The Unholy Garden (1931) George Fitzmaurice, Ronald Colman, Fay Wray, Estelle Taylor, Crime, Drama, Romance
At a hotel in the middle of the Sahara Desert, an old man and his beautiful daughter try to keep the location of a hidden treasure Read More »
I Loved You Wednesday (1933) Henry King, William Cameron Menzies, Warner Baxter, Elissa Landi, Victor Jory, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Vicki Meredith, an American ballet student in Paris, falls in love with Randall Williams, another American studying architecture in Paree Read More »
The Runaway Bride (1930) Donald Crisp, Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, Paul Hurst, Crime, Drama, Romance
Mary Fairchild elopes with Dick Mercer and it doesn’t take long for Mary to realize she has made a mistake. Read More »
Thunder in the Night (1935) George Archainbaud, Edmund Lowe, Karen Morley, Paul Cavanagh, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Most of the Fox productions of the 1930s had a “continental” flavor, and Thunder in the Night was no exception. Read More »