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Tag Archives: 1930s
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) George Marshall, Ray McCarey, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Don Dillaway
The boys’ Army buddy, Eddie Smith, is killed in the trenches in France, leaving his baby girl an orphan. Read More »
Blackwells Island (1939) William C. McGann, John Garfield, Rosemary Lane, Dick Purcell
In a fictional version of true events at the New York prison of Blackwell’s Island in 1934 Read More »
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) John Ford, Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver
In Revolutionary America, Gil Martin takes his new wife Lana back to his farm in upstate New York. Read More »
They Learned About Women (1930) Jack Conway, Sam Wood, Joe Schenck, Gus Van, Bessie Love
When Jack and Jerry are not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Read More »
The Great Man Votes (1939) Garson Kanin, John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. Read More »
You Said a Mouthful (1932) Lloyd Bacon, Joe E. Brown, Ginger Rogers, Preston Foster
Both Joe E. Brown and Guinn Williams are named Joe Holt; Brown is a shipping clerk and Williams is a champion Canadian swimmer. Read More »
Men Are Such Fools (1938) Busby Berkeley, Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart
Linda Lawrence rises from secretary to account executive in an advertising agency. Read More »
My Marriage (1936) George Archainbaud, Claire Trevor, Kent Taylor, Pauline Frederick
When gangster’s bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton Read More »
The Merry Widow (1934) Ernst Lubitsch, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton
The small kingdom of Marshovia has a little problem. The main tax-payer, the wealthy widow Sonia Read More »
Murder on the Blackboard (1934) George Archainbaud, Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. Read More »
The Count Of The Old Town AKA Munkbrogreven (1935) Edvin Adolphson, Valdemar Dalquist, Julia Cæsar, Sigurd Wallén
This comedy romp takes place in and around Stockholm’s Old Town, which is inhabited by various dubious characters doing dubious things Read More »
The Tunnel (1935) Maurice Elvey, Richard Dix, Leslie Banks, Madge Evans
Engineers Richard McAllan and Frederick Robinson manage to get financial backing for a gigantic project to build a tunnel from England to America. Read More »
Island of Lost Men (1939) Kurt Neumann, Anna May Wong, J. Carrol Naish, Eric Blore
An altered remake of 1933’s “White Woman,” finds cabaret-singer Kim Ling, daughter of a Chinese general Read More »
First a Girl (1935) Victor Saville, Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee
Elizabeth, a delivery girl, dreams of being a music-hall singer but she is refused at the first casting she takes part in. Read More »