While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs for a pair of feuding gangsters while trying desparately to evade the ship’s crew. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Safety in Numbers (1930) Victor Schertzinger, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Kathryn Crawford, Josephine Dunn, Comedy, Musical, Romance
William Butler Reynolds is slated to inherit ten-million dollars on his 21st birthday, but his worldly uncle, F. Carstairs Reynolds, thinks the lad could use a bit of seasoning before that happens. Read More »
Union Pacific (1939) Cecil B. DeMille, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Drama, Western
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. Read More »
Angel (1937) Ernst Lubitsch, Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man. Read More »
Lady and Gent (1932) Stephen Roberts, George Bancroft, Wynne Gibson, Charles Starrett, Drama, Sport
Stag Bailey, a slow-witted prizefighter, and his girlfriend, speakeasy hostess Puff Rogers, take over the upbringing of Ted Streaver after his father, Stag’s manager, is killed. Read More »
Vampyr (1932) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Fantasy, Horror
Allan Gray arrives late in the evening to a secluded riverside inn in the hamlet of Courtempierre. An old man enters his room, puts a sealed parcel on the table, blurts out that some woman mustn’t die, and disappears. Read More »
The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939) Harold S. Bucquet, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lionel Atwill, Drama
Dr. Gillespie’s cancer has gotten worse, and to force him to take a rest instead of pursuing a sulfa-drug/pneumonia study, Kildare refuses to assist Gillespie, and instead accepts a case of hysterical blindness. She’s also the daughter of a millionaire who could help the hospital. Read More »
Lost Horizon (1937) Frank Capra, Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Read More »
Lelícek ve sluzbách Sherlocka Holmese / Lelicek in the Services of Sherlock Holmes (1932) Carl Lamac, Vlasta Burian, Martin Fric, Lída Baarová, Comedy
Ferdinand XXIII., the king of Portorico, is exaggeratedly scared of anarchists. Thus he hires a famous detective Sherlock Holmes to find him a double. Read More »
El fantasma del convento / The Phantom of the Convent (1934) Fernando de Fuentes, Enrique del Campo, Marta Roel, Carlos Villatoro, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Alfonso, Eduardo and Cristina get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. Read More »
Le mystère de la chambre jaune / The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1930) Marcel L’Herbier, Roland Toutain, Huguette Duflos, Léon Belières, Crime, Mystery
Mathilde Strangerson, the daughter of an eminent scientist, narrowly escapes being murdered in her own bedroom by an unknown assailant. Read More »
Lightning Strikes Twice (1934) Ben Holmes, Ben Lyon, Thelma Todd, Pert Kelton, Comedy, Mystery
A crazed gunman fires a shot. As officer Casey reports the assumed murder to headquarters another shot is fired causing Casey to fall. Read More »
La Tendre ennemie / The Tender Enemy (1936) Max Ophüls, Simone Berriau, Catherine Fonteney, Laure Diana, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Two ghosts attend an engagement party, unseen by the other guests. One ghost, Dupont, is the father of the bride-to-be. Read More »
The False Madonna (1931) Stuart Walker, Kay Francis, William ‘Stage’ Boyd, Conway Tearle, Drama
A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man; she comes to feel a true motherly love for the young man, and refuses to try to cheat him. Read More »
Career Woman (1936) Lewis Seiler, Claire Trevor, Michael Whalen, Isabel Jewell, Drama
A girl accused of killing her father is defended unsuccessfully by a flashy lawyer and successfully by a new, straightforward one. Read More »