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Tag Archives: 1930s
Heritage of the Desert (1939) Lesley Selander, Donald Woods, Evelyn Venable, Russell Hayden
John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance Read More »
The Threepenny Opera AKA Die 3 Groschen-Oper (1931) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher
In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the ‘king of the beggars’. Read More »
Ten Minutes to Live (1932) Oscar Micheaux, Lawrence Chenault, A.B. DeComathiere, Laura Bowman
A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. Read More »
The Case of the Black Cat (1936) William C. McGann, Ricardo Cortez, June Travis, Jane Bryan
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter’s will Read More »
Trouble at Midnight (1937) Ford Beebe, Noah Beery Jr., Kay Hughes, Larry J. Blake
In World War One, Sergeant Tony Michael (Larry J. Blake) saves the life of Dick Cameron (‘Henry Hunter’) Read More »
The Princess Comes Across (1936) William K. Howard, Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Douglass Dumbrille
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America Read More »
Without Orders (1936) Lew Landers, Frances Sage, Robert Armstrong, Sally Eilers
At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick (Vinton Haworth) lands at the end of a cross-country record flight Read More »
Speak Easily (1932) Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Ruth Selwyn
Naive, bookish Professor Post (of Potts College) inherits a huge amount of money Read More »
Flirtation AKA Liebelei (1933) Max Ophüls, Paul Hörbiger, Magda Schneider, Luise Ullrich
Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair Read More »
Strike Me Pink (1936) Norman Taurog, Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, Sally Eilers
After helping a numbskull graduate college, a nebbish blunders into a job running an amusement park. Read More »
Swedenhielms Family AKA Swedenhielms (1935) Gustaf Molander, Gösta Ekman, Björn Berglund, Håkan Westergren
The Swedenhielms is an old aristocratic family. The head of the family is professor Rolf Swedenhielm. Read More »
Oil for the Lamps of China (1935) Mervyn LeRoy, Pat O’Brien, Josephine Hutchinson, Jean Muir
An American, working for his oil company in China, disregards all but the company’s interests. Read More »
Double Wedding (1937) Richard Thorpe, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice
Waldo and Irene have been living with Margit for the four years that they have been engaged. Read More »
The Invader (1936) Adrian Brunel, Buster Keaton, Lupita Tovar, Lyn Harding
A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love. Read More »