A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry’s office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
They Shall Have Music (1939) Archie Mayo, Jascha Heifetz, Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds
A boy from the streets of New York finds music tickets to a Heifetz concert, which rekindles his earlier interest in the violin. Read More »
Fast Workers (1933) Tod Browning, John Gilbert, Robert Armstrong, Mae Clarke
Gunner and Bucker are pals who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry Read More »
The Man Who Committed the Murder AKA Der Mann, der den Mord beging (1931) Curtis Bernhardt, Conrad Veidt, Trude von Molo, Heinrich George
The story is about Conrad Veidt as military attache in Turkey where he learns to know an English consul (Heinrich George) and his attractive wife who is treated badly. Read More »
L’atalante (1934) Jean Vigo, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Michel Simon
When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live with him as he captains a river barge. Read More »
Zero for Conduct AKA Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège (1933) Jean Vigo, Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Louis Lefebvre
Bruel, Caussat and Colin are three students at a boarding school. Read More »
Let’s Go with Pancho Villa AKA Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (1936) Fernando de Fuentes, Antonio R. Frausto, Domingo Soler, Manuel Tamés
The Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as “Los Leones de San Pablo” Read More »
Stepping Out (1931) Charles Reisner, Charlotte Greenwood, Reginald Denny, Leila Hyams
When Sally (Charlotte Greenwood) and Eve (Leila Hyams) take a vacation together to make their rich husbands miss them Read More »
Godfather Mendoza AKA El compadre Mendoza (1934) Juan Bustillo Oro, Fernando de Fuentes, Alfredo del Diestro, Carmen Guerrero, Antonio R. Frausto
During Mexican Revolution, Rosalio Mendoza (Del Diestro) survives by making and winning favors from both factions Read More »
Sinner Take All (1936) Errol Taggart, Bruce Cabot, Margaret Lindsay, Joseph Calleia
Members of a wealthy family start getting threatening letters, and it’s not long before the threats turn Read More »
Rhythm on the Range (1936) Norman Taurog, Bing Crosby, Frances Farmer, Bob Burns
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond Read More »
The Clairvoyant (1935) Maurice Elvey, Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Mary Clare
Maximus, a small-time music hall mind reader, has frightening flashes of precognition Read More »
At the Circus (1939) Edward Buzzell, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10000. Read More »
Four Daughters (1938) Michael Curtiz, Claude Rains, John Garfield, Jeffrey Lynn
Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, has passed on his love of music Read More »
The Florodora Girl (1930) Harry Beaumont, Marion Davies, Lawrence Gray, Walter Catlett
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold-digger. Read More »