A young man named Heyst, soured on civilization, lives alone on a remote island “somewhere east of Suez”. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
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 »
In Old Monterey (1939) Joseph Kane, Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey
The Army wants the ranchers land and the Borax plant for their maneuvers. Read More »
Love Before Breakfast (1936) Walter Lang, Carole Lombard, Preston Foster, Cesar Romero
Kay Colby (Carole Lombard) is a Park Avenue beauty with two suitors: Bill Wadsworth (Cesar Romero) Read More »
Spawn of the North (1938) Henry Hathaway, George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour
Two Alaskan salmon fishermen, Tyler Dawson (skipper of the “Who Cares”) and Jim Kimmerlee of the “Old Reliable,” are lifelong pals. Read More »