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Tag Archives: 1930s
The Virtuous Sin (1930) George Cukor, Louis J. Gasnier, Walter Huston, Kay Francis, Kenneth MacKenna
Marya is the wife of medical student Victor Sablin, who finds it impossible Read More »
Ways of Love AKA Jofroi (1933) Marcel Pagnol, Vincent Scotto, Henri Poupon, Annie Toinon
In a country town of Provence, a landowner threatens to kill himself after Read More »
Prison Nurse (1938) James Cruze, Henry Wilcoxon, Marian Marsh, Bernadene Hayes
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates Read More »
Viva Villa! (1934) Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Leo Carrillo
In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing Read More »
Violet of Potsdam Square AKA Das Veilchen vom Potsdamer Platz (1936) J.A. Hübler-Kahla, Rotraut Richter, Paul W. Krüger, Margarete Kupfer
In a poor Berlin neighborhood, a horse used in the WWI cavalry Read More »
In the Name of the Law AKA Au nom de la loi (1932) Maurice Tourneur, Marcelle Chantal, Régine Dancourt, Gabriel Gabrio
A policeman is killed when he tries to investigate a case involving cocaine traffic. Read More »
A Lost Lady (1934) Alfred E. Green, Phil Rosen, Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan, Ricardo Cortez
Two days before Marian and Ned are to be married, he is killed by the husband of a woman he was seeing on the side. Read More »
Torchy Blane in Panama (1938) William Clemens, Lola Lane, Paul Kelly, Tom Kennedy
Determined to scoop the other newspapers, reporter Torchy Blane convinces her boyfriend Read More »
Secrets (1933) Frank Borzage, Mary Pickford, Leslie Howard, C. Aubrey Smith
In the late 1800s New England, banker William Marlowe and his wife Martha Read More »
Female Fugitive (1938) William Nigh, Evelyn Venable, Craig Reynolds, Reed Hadley
When her husband, Jim (Craig Reynolds), masterminds a plot to drive his competitors Read More »
Sarah and Son (1930) Dorothy Arzner, Ruth Chatterton, Fredric March, Fuller Mellish Jr.
A ne’er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, disappears with their son Read More »
Arizona Gunfighter (1937) Sam Newfield, Bob Steele, Jean Carmen, Ted Adams
When Colt kills the men that murdered his father, he escapes his pursuers and joins Wolf and his outlaw gang. Read More »
Western Justice (1934) Robert N. Bradbury, Bob Steele, Renee Borden, Julian Rivero
Three men, each on their individual quest, meet at a deserted cabin Read More »
Wells Fargo (1937) Frank Lloyd, Joel McCrea, Bob Burns, Frances Dee
The third of Paramount’s “deluxe” westerns of the 1930s (following The Texas Rangers and The Plainsman) was Wells Fargo Read More »