Golden is a two-bit gambler who has promised wife Virginia he’ll quit when he makes $200,000. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Sabotage (1936) Alfred Hitchcock, Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester
Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema Read More »
King Solomon’s Mines (1937) Robert Stevenson
Fortune hunter Patrick O’Brien has left his daughter Kathy Read More »
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935) William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt, James Cagney, Dick Powell, Ian Hunter
Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Read More »
What! No Beer? (1933) Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Roscoe Ates
Although he has never met her, Elmer Butts loves Hortense secretly and from afar. Read More »
Doughboys (1930) Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, Sally Eilers, Cliff Edwards
Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she’ll have nothing to do with him until Read More »
Heritage of the Desert (1939) Lesley Selander, Donald Woods, Evelyn Venable, Russell Hayden
John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance Read More »
The Threepenny Opera AKA Die 3 Groschen-Oper (1931) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher
In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the ‘king of the beggars’. Read More »
Ten Minutes to Live (1932) Oscar Micheaux, Lawrence Chenault, A.B. DeComathiere, Laura Bowman
A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. Read More »
The Case of the Black Cat (1936) William C. McGann, Ricardo Cortez, June Travis, Jane Bryan
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter’s will Read More »