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Tag Archives: 1930s
The Bride Walks Out (1936) Leigh Jason, Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond, Robert Young, Comedy, Romance
Carolyn and Michael fall in love and decide to marry. However, Michael insists that Carolyn quit her job. Read More »
Havana Widows (1933) Ray Enright, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Guy Kibbee, Comedy
Mae and Sadie, impecunious chorus girls, chisel some money from an admirer and head for Havana to “dig gold” among the millionaires. Read More »
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932) Michael Curtiz, Ann Dvorak, Lee Tracy, Richard Cromwell, Crime, Drama, Romance
Abandoned by her mother at a young age, Molly Louvain is seen as no good, but she dreams of living respectably with her sweetheart Jimmy, who has promised to marry her. Read More »
Girl in Danger (1934) D. Ross Lederman, Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Grey, Arthur Hohl, Mystery
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster. Read More »
Street Scene (1931) King Vidor, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Drama, Romance
In a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors of her residential building about the affair of Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey. Read More »
Miss Pinkerton (1932) Lloyd Bacon, Joan Blondell, George Brent, Ruth Hall, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues Read More »
Make Me a Star (1932) William Beaudine, Joan Blondell, Stuart Erwin, Zasu Pitts, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Menton Gill is longing to become a cowboy actor and leaves his hometown to try his luck in Hollywood, but there his acting ability is regarded as non-existent. Read More »
Father Brown, Detective (1934) Edward Sedgwick, Walter Connolly, Paul Lukas, Gertrude Michael, Crime, Mystery
After notorious jewel thief Flambeau meets Evelyn Fischer during a raid on a casino, he falls deeply in love with her. Read More »
The Crowd Roars (1932) Howard Hawks, James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Action, Drama, Sport
Famous motor-racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race. Read More »
The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932) Lowell Sherman, Joan Blondell, Madge Evans, Ina Claire, Comedy
Sophisticated comedy: a trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. Read More »
The Famous Ferguson Case (1932) Lloyd Bacon, Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell, Vivienne Osborne, Crime, Drama
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Read More »
Behind the Headlines (1937) Richard Rosson, Lee Tracy, Diana Gibson, Phillip Huston, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Eddie Haines is a radio reporter with Station KBC. He is always getting the scoop, which infuriates those at the New York Star, which happens to employ his ex-girlfriend Mary Bradley. Read More »
The Doorway to Hell (1930) Archie Mayo, Lew Ayres, James Cagney, Charles Judels, Crime, Drama
Lou Ricarno is a smart guy. His plan is to organize the various gangs in Chicago so that the mugs will not liquidate each other. Read More »
24 Hours (1931) Marion Gering, Clive Brook, Kay Francis, Miriam Hopkins, Drama
A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime. Read More »