In this melodrama set in San Francisco, a businesswoman gives a job to an unemployed, homeless sailor. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Redemption (1930) Fred Niblo, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Conrad Nagel
This notorious studio adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1900 novel The Live Corpse stars John Gilbert as the ill-fated Fedya. Read More »
A Child Is Born (1939) Lloyd Bacon, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Lynn, Gladys George
A maternity ward, staffed by sympathetic nurses, serves mothers-to-be from all walks of life. Read More »
Wide Open Faces (1938) Kurt Neumann, Joe E. Brown, Jane Wyman, Alison Skipworth
Criminal from all over the country converge on the Lakeside Inn in Willow Springs where bank robber Read More »
The Good Fairy (1935) William Wyler, Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan
Luisa Ginglebusher (Sullavan) leaves the orphanage where she grew up to take a job as a movie theater usherette. Read More »
If I Were Free (1933) Elliott Nugent, Irene Dunne, Clive Brook, Nils Asther
Gordon Evers, a dignified middle-aged barrister, is depressed and suicidal following an injury suffered during WWI. Read More »
The Shanghai Drama AKA Le drame de Shanghaï (1938) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Christl Mardayn, Louis Jouvet, Raymond Rouleau
A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. Read More »
Sweepings (1933) John Cromwell, Lionel Barrymore, Eric Linden, William Gargan
Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. Read More »
Where Sinners Meet (1934) J. Walter Ruben, Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Billie Burke
Leonard and Anne are taking the lovers road to Dover where they will board the boat and go to Paris. Read More »
Children in the Wind AKA Kaze no naka no kodomo (1937) Hiroshi Shimizu, Reikichi Kawamura, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Masao Hayama
On vacation’s eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement. Read More »
Priest of Darkness AKA Kochiyama soshun (1936) Sadao Yamanaka, Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan’emon Nakamura, Shizue Yamagishi
Based on a well-known Kabuki drama titled “Kochiyama to Naozamurai”, which Yamanaka distills Read More »
The Woman Racket (1930) Albert H. Kelley, Robert Ober, Tom Moore, Blanche Sweet, Sally Starr
During a raid on a speakeasy, a cop finds himself attracted to a pretty female employee. Read More »
Kid Galahad (1937) Michael Curtiz, Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart
When a bellhop knocks out fighter Chuck McGraw, promoter Nick Donati realizes he’s a potential champ. Read More »
Fugitive Road (1934) Frank R. Strayer, Erich von Stroheim, Wera Engels, Leslie Fenton
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war. Read More »
The Squaw Man (1931) Cecil B. DeMille, Warner Baxter, Lupe Velez, Eleanor Boardman
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion Read More »