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Tag Archives: 1930s
Panic on the Air (1936) D. Ross Lederman, Lew Ayres, Florence Rice, Benny Baker, Drama
While trying to figure out why a ball player failed to play in a recent game, a radio newscaster stumbles upon a curious story Read More »
Men in White (1934) Richard Boleslawski, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt, Drama, Romance
A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Read More »
The Great Garrick (1937) James Whale, Brian Aherne, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, Comedy, Romance
The Great Garrick (Brian Aherne) is the most celebrated London theater actor of his day (eighteenth century) and is invited to Paris to star at the Comedie Francaise, the most important theatre in France. Read More »
The Divorcee (1930) Robert Z. Leonard, Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Chester Morris, Romance, Drama
Jerry and Ted are young, in love, and part of the New York ‘in-crowd’. Jerry’s decision to marry Ted crushes a yearning Paul. Read More »
The Working Man (1933) John G. Adolfi, George Arliss, Bette Davis, Theodore Newton, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Successful wealthy shoe manufacturer John Reeves takes a vacation, leaving his business in the hands of his nephew. Read More »
The Silver Horde (1930) George Archainbaud, Evelyn Brent, Joel McCrea, Louis Wolheim, Drama
Boyd Emerson loves the wealthy Mildred Wayland, but so does Boyd’s unscrupulous rival in the Yukon salmon fisheries, Frederick Marsh. Read More »
Safe in Hell (1931) William A. Wellman, Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde, Drama
Sought by the New Orleans police for accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a woman flees New Orleans for a Caribbean island. Read More »
Lightnin’ Crandall (1937) Sam Newfield, Bob Steele, Lois January, Charles King, Romance, Western
Gunfighter Lightnin’ Crandall puts away his gun and heads west posing as a tenderfoot. But he quickly gets in the middle of a range war between the Shannon’s and Blaine. Read More »
Vessel of Wrath / The Beachcomber (1938) Erich Pommer, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Newton, Drama, Adventure
Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson (Charles Laughton) a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones,(Elsa Lanchester) a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. Read More »
Pilgrimage (1933) John Ford, Henrietta Crosman, Heather Angel, Norman Foster, Drama
Hannah Jessop (Henrietta Crosman) fears being abandoned by her son Jim (Norman Foster), and she doesn’t approve of his romance with Mary Saunders (Marian Nixon). Read More »
Inspector Hornleigh (1939) Eugene Forde, Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Miki Hood, Comedy, Mystery, Crime
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Read More »
Red Dust (1932) Victor Fleming, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Drama, Romance
Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carson’s Indochina rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. Read More »
I Married a Doctor (1936) Archie Mayo, Pat O’Brien, Josephine Hutchinson, Ross Alexander, Drama
The story is about a sophisticated Chicago woman (Josephine Hutchinson) who marries a small-town doctor (Pat O’Brien) and moves to that town Read More »
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931) Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, Charlotte Greenwood, Reginald Denny, Comedy
Jeff wants to get married to Virginia, but Virginia won’t marry until her older, hard-to-please sister Angelica gets married off first. Read More »