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Tag Archives: 1930s
Road to Life AKA Putyovka v zhizn (1931) Nikolai Ekk, Nikolay Batalov, Yvan Kyrlya, Mikhail Dzhagofarov

Young hobos are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. Read More »
Pick-up (1933) Marion Gering, Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Lilian Bond

The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies Read More »
Hold Your Man (1933) Sam Wood, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin

Eddie Hall and his partner Slim are a pair of nickel-and-dime con men on the hustle. Read More »
Love Affair (1939) Leo McCarey, Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya

French playboy Michel Marnet and American Terry McKay fall in love aboard ship. Read More »
The St. Louis Kid (1934) Ray Enright, James Cagney, Patricia Ellis, Allen Jenkins

Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. Read More »
Headline Shooter (1933) Otto Brower, William Gargan, Frances Dee, Ralph Bellamy

Roguish, cynical newsreel cameraman Bill Allen usually has a dame in one hand Read More »
Dangerous to Know (1938) Robert Florey, Anna May Wong, Akim Tamiroff, Gail Patrick

Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying Read More »
The Dragon Murder Case (1934) H. Bruce Humberstone, Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot

Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Read More »
Au bonheur des dames (1930) Julien Duvivier, Dita Parlo, Ginette Maddie, Andrée Brabant

Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle’s store. Read More »