Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Eight Girls in a Boat (1934) Richard Wallace, Dorothy Wilson, Douglass Montgomery, Kay Johnson
In an exclusive Swiss school for young girls, Christa Storm discovers she is going to have a baby Read More »
Jailbreak (1936) Nick Grinde, Barton MacLane, June Travis, Craig Reynolds
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars. Read More »
Dangerous Paradise (1930) William A. Wellman, Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Warner Oland
A young man named Heyst, soured on civilization, lives alone on a remote island “somewhere east of Suez”. Read More »
The Dawn Patrol (1930) Howard Hawks, Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Neil Hamilton
World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer Read More »
Down to Their Last Yacht (1934) Paul Sloane, Mary Boland, Polly Moran, Ned Sparks
A family looses everything in the crash of 1929 except for their yacht. In order to make money they rent out the yacht. Read More »
Sweet Adeline (1934) Mervyn LeRoy
The 1929 Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical Sweet Adeline has generally been credited as the vanguard Read More »
The Lady Is Willing (1934) Gilbert Miller, Leslie Howard, Cedric Hardwicke, Binnie Barnes
A private detective is hired by three men to kidnap a wealthy man’s wife in order to get a ransom, but he soon falls for her. Read More »
The Girl Downstairs (1938) Norman Taurog, Franciska Gaal, Franchot Tone, Walter Connolly
Paul Wagner and Rosalind Brown are in love, but her father doesn’t feel Paul’s lifestyle will make him a suitable husband for his daughter. Read More »
Yoshiwara (1937) Max Ophüls, Pierre Richard-Willm
Late nineteenth century. Young Kohana is sent to Yoshiwara, a suburb of Tokyo where exercise the profession of geisha. Read More »