Lem goes to Chicago to sell the wheat his family has grown on their farm in Minnesota. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Private Detective (1939) Noel M. Smith, Jane Wyman, Dick Foran, Gloria Dickson
Private detective “Jinx” Wilsnow is working on the case of a divorcée who is accused of murdering her ex-husband. Read More »
Alcatraz Island (1937) William C. McGann, John Litel, Ann Sheridan, Mary Maguire
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence. Read More »
Ever in My Heart (1933) Archie Mayo, Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy
In 1909 Mary Archer, daughter of small-town bluebloods, awaits the return from Germany of sometime beau Jeff. Read More »
Vanity Street (1932) Nick Grinde, Charles Bickford, Helen Chandler, Mayo Methot
A NYC police-detective rescues a down-and-out showgirl from a bad situation, gets her a job in the ‘Follies”, and falls in love with her. Read More »
Easy Living (1937) Mitchell Leisen, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. Read More »
Roberta (1935) William A. Seiter, Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. Read More »
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) Anatole Litvak, Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor
Dr. Clitterhouse is fascinated with the working of the criminal mind. Read More »
In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) Charles Chauvel, Arthur Greenaway, Mayne Lynton, Errol Flynn
The film explores the story of the Bounty and is based on the 1932 novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. Read More »
Smartest Girl in Town (1936) Joseph Santley, Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Helen Broderick
Modeling furs has given our heroine Cookie a taste for them, so she’s determined to marry a rich man. Read More »
Each Dawn I Die (1939) William Keighley, James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan
Although innocent, reporter Frank Ross is found guilty of murder and is sent to jail. Read More »
Golgotha AKA Behold the Man (1935) Julien Duvivier, Harry Baur, Jean Gabin, Robert Le Vigan
Robert le Vigan plays the Son of God, but as often happens in films of this nature he is upstaged by the villains Read More »
The Mind Reader (1933) Roy Del Ruth, Warren William, Constance Cummings, Allen Jenkins
Chandler, a con-man, and his helper Frank decide to create a clairvoyant act for the carny circuit Read More »
The Adventures of Jane Arden (1939) Terry O. Morse, Rosella Towne, William Gargan, James Stephenson
Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Read More »
Crime School (1938) Lewis Seiler, William Clemens, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page
Deputy Commissioner of Correction Mark Braden finds a reform school in terrible condition and assumes control himself. Read More »