George Freen (George Formby) is a scrawny, weakling barber’s assistant. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1937
I Promise to Pay (1937) D. Ross Lederman, Chester Morris, Leo Carrillo, Helen Mack
Eddie Lang (Chester Morris), a decent family man making $27.50 a week, borrows fifty-dollars Read More »
Désiré (1937) Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Jacques Baumer
Shavian social satire. Odette is an actress who’s now the mistress of a government minister. Read More »
The High Command (1937) Thorold Dickinson, Lionel Atwill, Lucie Mannheim, Steven Geray
A general of the old school, who believes strongly in his own honour and sense of duty Read More »
The Good Earth (1937) Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly
The story of a farmer in China: a story of humility and bravery. His father gives Wang Lung a freed slave as wife. Read More »
A Bride for Henry (1937) William Nigh, Anne Nagel, Warren Hull, Henry Mollison
On the day of her wedding a young woman’s fiancé doesn’t show up, sleeping off the results Read More »
My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937) George B. Seitz, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O’Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon
When the owner of the New York Globe-Leader dies without making a will Read More »
Brillanten (1937) Eduard von Borsody, Hansi Knoteck, Viktor Staal, Hilde Körber
The famous dancer Viktor Lamont apparently has no luck when he gambles: in fact Read More »
Girls Can Play (1937) Lambert Hillyer, Julie Bishop, Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth
Foy Harris (John Gallaudet) is a bootlegger selling illegal booze and also running a girl’s professional softball team Read More »
Ride to Freedom AKA Ritt in die Freiheit (1937) Karl Hartl, Willy Birgel, Viktor Staal, Hansi Knoteck
A Polish captain serving Alexander during the Czarist rule of Warsaw in 1830 gives Read More »
Crossroads AKA Shi zi jie tou (1937) Xiling Shen, Dan Zhao, Yang Bai, Ban Lü
Four students in Shanghai have recently finished university. All are unemployed. Read More »
The Alibi AKA L’alibi (1937) Pierre Chenal, Erich von Stroheim, Albert Préjean, Jany Holt
Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster Read More »
Navy Spy (1937) Joseph H. Lewis, Crane Wilbur, Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Hunt, Judith Allen
A federal agent and a female reporter team up to catch a criminal gang that has kidnapped Read More »
The Straits of Love and Hate AKA Aien kyo (1937) Kenji Mizoguchi, Taizô Fukami, Akira Harue, Kiyoshi Katô
A young couple of lovers want to travel to Tokyo to work and form a family there Read More »
The Californian AKA The Gentleman from California (1937) Gus Meins, Ricardo Cortez, Marjorie Weaver, Katherine DeMille
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians Read More »