Gaston Bouchard, sentenced to 20 years in a penal colony, escapes and meets Marcel Valmont on the train. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) Leni Riefenstahl, Sheigo Arai, Jack Beresford, Ralf Berzsenyi, Documentary, Sport
After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics Read More »
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938) Leni Riefenstahl, David Albritton, Arvo Askola, Jack Beresford, Documentary, Sport
After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics Read More »
Der Dibuk / The Dybbuk (1937) Michal Waszynski, Avrom Morewski, Ajzyk Samberg, Mojzesz Lipman, Drama, Fantasy
In a Polish shtetl, two young men who have grown up together betrothe their unborn children, ignoring the advice of a mysterious traveler not to pledge the lives of future generations. Read More »
Calling Dr. Kildare (1939) Harold S. Bucquet, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Crime, Drama
Dr. Gillespie tries to teach Jimmy Kildare a lesson by tossing him into a street clinic. Read More »
Human Cargo (1936) Allan Dwan, Claire Trevor, Brian Donlevy, Alan Dinehart, Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Bonnie Brewster (Claire Trevor) and “Packy” Campbell (Brian Donlevy), rival reporters on competing newspapers Read More »
Lilly Turner (1933) William A. Wellman, Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Frank McHugh, Drama
A carnival magician deserts his wife when he finds out she’s pregnant. She then marries the carnival’s barker, but finds herself attracted to a young engineer. Read More »
Cipher Bureau (1938) Charles Lamont, Leon Ames, Charlotte Wynters, Joan Woodbury, Action, Drama
The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent. Read More »
Murder! (1930) Alfred Hitchcock, Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
The police find the actress, Diana Baring, near the body of her friend. All the circumstantial proofs seems to point to her and, at the end of the trial, she is condemned. Read More »
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939) William Clemens, Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Nancy Drew and Ted Nickerson solve a murder and save two elderly ladies from losing their family home. The old mansion is complete with a moving wall and a hidden staircase. Read More »
Mieheke / The Surrogate Husband (1936) Valentin Vaala, Tuulikki Paananen, Tauno Palo, Uuno Laakso, Comedy, Romance
Irmeli wants a certain job as a secretary but finds out that she would have to be married in order to get the vacancy. Read More »
Kaikki rakastavat / Everybody’s Love (1935) Valentin Vaala, Ansa Ikonen, Tauno Palo, Birgit Nuotio, Comedy, Romance
The romantic musical comedy Kaikki rakastavat is a key work in Finnish film history since it was the first feature film of Valentin Vaala as the house director of Suomi-Filmi and the film which launched the most beloved screen couple of Finland, Tauno Palo and Ansa Ikonen. Read More »
Straight Place and Show (1938) David Butler, The Ritz Brothers, Richard Arlen, Ethel Merman, Comedy, Musical
According to the scribes at a big movie studio with Fox in its logo, it is the big season at the track. Read More »
The Woman I Love (1937) Anatole Litvak, Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Louis Hayward, Drama, War
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer. Read More »
New Faces of 1937 (1937) Leigh Jason, Joe Penner, Milton Berle, Harry Parke, Comedy, Musical, Romance
A crooked producer tries to link his backers by producing a flop and disapearing with the money. Read More »