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Tag Archives: 1930s
Angele (1934) Marcel Pagnol, Orane Demazis, Fernandel, Henri Poupon
Angèle, the daughter of Clarius, a farmer in the mountain of Provence, lives with her parents and their valet Saturnin. Read More »
Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939) Frank R. Strayer, Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms
A book salesman sells Blondie Bumstead a set of books on child training Read More »
It’s Tough to Be Famous (1932) Alfred E. Green, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Brian, Harold Minjir
When his submarine, S89, is sunk by an excursion boat, Scotty is the last one Read More »
Doss House (1933) John Baxter, Frank Cellier, Arnold Bell, Herbert Franklyn
An escaped convict is on the loose, and the police are searching all the doss-houses Read More »
6,000 Enemies (1939) George B. Seitz, Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Paul Kelly
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds Read More »
Murder at Dawn (1932) Richard Thorpe, Josephine Dunn, Jack Mulhall, Eddie Boland
Federal Judge Folger accuses two Wall St. speculators of manipulating the stock Read More »
Mr. Poirier’s Son-in-Law AKA Le gendre de Monsieur Poirier (1933) Marcel Pagnol, Léon Bernard, Annie Ducaux, Jean Debucourt
This is the story of a wealthy bourgeois who marries his only child, a daughter Read More »
Back Street (1932) John M. Stahl, Irene Dunne, John Boles, June Clyde
A woman’s love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the “back streets” of his life. Read More »
The Bad One (1930) George Fitzmaurice, Dolores del Rio, Edmund Lowe, Don Alvarado
A complicated romance between an American sailor and a dancing girl from Marseilles. Read More »
Brillanten (1937) Eduard von Borsody, Hansi Knoteck, Viktor Staal, Hilde Körber
The famous dancer Viktor Lamont apparently has no luck when he gambles: in fact Read More »
East of Fifth Avenue (1933) Albert S. Rogell, Wallace Ford, Mary Carlisle, Dorothy Tree
A kindly, elderly couple who run a New York City boarding house form the steady Read More »
State’s Attorney (1932) George Archainbaud, John Barrymore, Helen Twelvetrees, Jill Esmond
Attorney Tom Cardigan is the discontented “mouthpiece” for Vanny Powers’ mob. Read More »
The Student of Prague AKA Der Student von Prag (1935) Arthur Robison, Anton Walbrook, Theodor Loos, Dorothea Wieck
Prague in the 1860s: Balduin is a popular, handsome student, the best fencer in town Read More »
The Countess of Monte-Christo AKA Die Gräfin von Monte-Christo (1932) Karl Hartl, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Forster, Lucie Englisch
This is one of the few comedies that starred Brigitte Helm. Unlike most of his other films Read More »