Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Half Angel (1936) Sidney Lanfield, Frances Dee, Brian Donlevy, Charles Butterworth
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Read More »
The Great Defender (1934) Thomas Bentley, Matheson Lang, Margaret Bannerman, Arthur Margetson
Sir Douglas Rolls had earned the reputation of being England’s greatest barrister. Read More »
Happiness Ahead (1934) Mervyn LeRoy, Dick Powell, Josephine Hutchinson, John Halliday
Joan’s parents want her to marry young Travis, but Joan has no interest in him. Read More »
Private Detective (1939) Noel M. Smith, Jane Wyman, Dick Foran, Gloria Dickson
Private detective “Jinx” Wilsnow is working on the case of a divorcée who is accused of murdering her ex-husband. Read More »
Alcatraz Island (1937) William C. McGann, John Litel, Ann Sheridan, Mary Maguire
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence. Read More »
Ever in My Heart (1933) Archie Mayo, Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy
In 1909 Mary Archer, daughter of small-town bluebloods, awaits the return from Germany of sometime beau Jeff. Read More »
Vanity Street (1932) Nick Grinde, Charles Bickford, Helen Chandler, Mayo Methot
A NYC police-detective rescues a down-and-out showgirl from a bad situation, gets her a job in the ‘Follies”, and falls in love with her. Read More »
Roberta (1935) William A. Seiter, Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. Read More »
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) Anatole Litvak, Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor
Dr. Clitterhouse is fascinated with the working of the criminal mind. Read More »