In XVI century Nueva Espana, mysterious sword fighter Cruz Diablo (a sort of Spanish Robin Hood) terrorizes rich people with his signature Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Birthright (1939) Oscar Micheaux, Carman Newsome, Ethel Moses, Alec Lovejoy
The restoration project added new sequences to Micheaux’s 1939 remake of his silent film Birthright. Read More »
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934) Edward Ludwig, Claude Rains, Joan Bennett, Lionel Atwill
A brilliant but impoverished writer, who is a pacifist, goes to work for a publisher and writes anti-war editorials. Read More »
Stingaree (1934) William A. Wellman, Irene Dunne, Richard Dix, Mary Boland
In 1874 Australia, newly installed Police Inspector Radford boasts to wealthy Hugh Clarkson Read More »
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) Michael Curtiz, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell
In London, sculptor Ivan Igor struggles in vain to prevent his partner Worth from burning his wax museum…and his ‘children.’ Read More »
The Woman I Love (1937) Anatole Litvak, Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Louis Hayward
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer. Read More »
Before Dawn (1933) Irving Pichel, Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson, Warner Oland
Joe Valerie stashed a million dollars in gold from a robbery 15 years earlier. Read More »
The Sphinx (1933) Phil Rosen, Wilfred Lucas, Lionel Atwill, Sheila Terry, Theodore Newton
A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. Read More »
Madame Racketeer (1932) Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Alexander Hall, Alison Skipworth, Richard Bennett, George Raft
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay Read More »
Big Town Girl (1937) Alfred L. Werker, Claire Trevor, Donald Woods, Alan Dinehart, Drama, Comedy
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret Read More »