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Tag Archives: 1930s
One Night at Susie’s (1930) John Francis Dillon, Billie Dove, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Helen Ware
A woman who owns a boarding house winds up being the “mother hen” to the assorted mobsters and racketeers who live there. Read More »
The Big Chance (1933) Albert Herman, John Darrow, Merna Kennedy, Natalie Moorhead
Frankie, a young prizefighter, wins a fixed boxing match as part of a crime boss’s plan Read More »
South Riding (1938) Victor Saville, Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn
“Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings Read More »
The Road I Travel with You AKA Kimi to yuku michi (1936) Mikio Naruse, Heihachirô Ôkawa, Hideo Saeki, Naoyo Yamagata
“The Road I Travel With You” concerns two brothers of marriageable age and their mother Read More »
A Woman’s Sorrows AKA Nyonin aishû (1937) Mikio Naruse, Takako Irie, Hideo Saeki, Heihachirô Ôkawa
The irresolute heroine marries without love and finds herself regarded Read More »
No Other Woman (1933) J. Walter Ruben, Irene Dunne, Charles Bickford, Gwili Andre
A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Read More »
The Savage Girl (1932) Harry L. Fraser, Rochelle Hudson, Walter Byron, Harry Myers
A white jungle goddess is protected by a fierce killer gorilla. Read More »
Lady with a Past (1932) Edward H. Griffith, Constance Bennett, Ben Lyon, David Manners
A wealthy, proper society girl finds that she’s much more popular with men when she pretends to be a “bad” girl. Read More »
Her Man (1930) Tay Garnett, Helen Twelvetrees, Phillips Holmes, Marjorie Rambeau
Havana bar girl with tough “protector” falls for young sailor. Read More »
She Loves Me Not (1934) Elliott Nugent, Bing Crosby, Miriam Hopkins, Kitty Carlisle
Curly Flagg, Philadelphia nightclub dancer, witnesses a murder and runs away to avoid being held as material witness. Read More »
Too Many Wives (1937) Ben Holmes, Anne Shirley, John Morley, Gene Lockhart
Betty Jackson, a socialite, and Barry Trent are attracted to each other upon first sight. Read More »
The Vicar of Bray (1937) Henry Edwards, Stanley Holloway, Hugh Miller, K. Hamilton Price
Musical set in the Civil War period about a vicar who, by adjusting his policies Read More »
The Mysterious Miss X (1939) Gus Meins, Michael Whalen, Lynne Roberts, Chick Chandler
Keith Neville and Dan Casey, two small-time stage actors, are traveling by bus Read More »
The Roadhouse Murder (1932) J. Walter Ruben, Dorothy Jordan, Eric Linden, Purnell Pratt
Chick Brian, overeager cub reporter, is stranded during a storm with his girlfriend Mary Read More »