On Christmas Eve in the Spanish quarter of L.A. police try to arrest a couple running a shady floor show. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Thrill of Youth (1932) Richard Thorpe, June Clyde, Allen Vincent, Dorothy Peterson
Chet Thayer returns to his family and the loving arms of his long suffering sweetheart Marcia. Read More »
Girls in Distress AKA Jeunes filles en détresse (1939) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Marcelle Chantal, Jacqueline Delubac, André Luguet
Jacqueline is sixteen. Her parents are kept very busy by their mutual careers (Dad is a renowned attorney and Mum is a doctor running her own clinic). Read More »
The Day the Bookies Wept (1939) Leslie Goodwins, Joe Penner, Betty Grable, Richard Lane
The taxi drivers of the Colonel Cab Company are tired of losing money at the racetrack. Read More »
Lady Be Careful (1936) Theodore Reed, Lew Ayres, Mary Carlisle, Benny Baker
A group of marines bet one of them that he can’t get a ribbon from a particular girl on a yacht. In fact they fall in love and live happily ever after. Read More »
My Apprenticeship AKA V lyudyakh (1939) Mark Donskoy, Aleksei Lyarsky, Irina Zarubina, Varvara Massalitinova
For the family really no money, Alexei began to make a living. Everything was limited to dirty chores Read More »
His Brother’s Wife (1936) W.S. Van Dyke, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Jean Hersholt
Rita Wilson meets epidemiologist Chris Claybourne and they fall in love with each other. Read More »
Whistling in the Dark (1933) Elliott Nugent, Charles Reisner, Ernest Truex, Una Merkel, Edward Arnold
In this Crime-Comedy-Mystery-Drama, an aspiring Pulp Writer elopes with a young woman Read More »
The Girl Who Came Back (1935) Charles Lamont, Shirley Grey, Sidney Blackmer, Noel Madison
A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear Read More »
It’s Never Too Late to Mend (1937) David MacDonald, Tod Slaughter, Jack Livesey, Marjorie Taylor
An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned. Read More »