
In 1909 Mary Archer, daughter of small-town bluebloods, awaits the return from Germany of sometime beau Jeff. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
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

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 »
In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) Charles Chauvel, Arthur Greenaway, Mayne Lynton, Errol Flynn

The film explores the story of the Bounty and is based on the 1932 novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. Read More »
Smartest Girl in Town (1936) Joseph Santley, Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Helen Broderick

Modeling furs has given our heroine Cookie a taste for them, so she’s determined to marry a rich man. Read More »
Each Dawn I Die (1939) William Keighley, James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan

Although innocent, reporter Frank Ross is found guilty of murder and is sent to jail. Read More »
The Mind Reader (1933) Roy Del Ruth, Warren William, Constance Cummings, Allen Jenkins

Chandler, a con-man, and his helper Frank decide to create a clairvoyant act for the carny circuit Read More »
The Adventures of Jane Arden (1939) Terry O. Morse, Rosella Towne, William Gargan, James Stephenson

Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Read More »
Crime School (1938) Lewis Seiler, William Clemens, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page

Deputy Commissioner of Correction Mark Braden finds a reform school in terrible condition and assumes control himself. Read More »