
Barry Gilbert and “Doc” Norton, broke and hungry, enter the unoccupied Reitter country estate. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Hogaraka ni ayume / Walk Cheerfully (1930) Yasujirô Ozu, Minoru Takada, Hiroko Kawasaki, Satoko Date

Kenji is a small thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue Read More »
Hi, Nellie! (1934) Mervyn LeRoy, Paul Muni

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. Read More »
Bengal Tiger (1936) Louis King

Cliff Ballenger, the wild-animal trainer for the circus had no fear of “Satan,” the fiercest man-eating tiger in captivity Read More »
Prison Break (1938) Arthur Lubin, Barton MacLane, Glenda Farrell, Paul Hurst

Joaquin Shannon arrives home from a cruise on his fishing boat. Read More »
Boykott (1930) Robert Land, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur, Lil Dagover, Rolf von Goth

A film about the pupils of a posh Berlin gymnasium in their final term (Ober-Primaner = pupils of the Upper First) Read More »
Der Verlorene Sohn / The Prodigal Son (1934) Luis Trenker, Maria Andergast, Bertl Schultes

Story of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great Depression. Read More »
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) Sidney Franklin, Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton

In 1845 London, the Barrett family is ruled with an iron fist by its stern widowed patriarch, Edward Moulton-Barrett. Read More »
Babes in Toyland / March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) Gus Meins, Charley Rogers, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Virginia Karns

Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep’s Read More »
Clive of India (1935) Richard Boleslawski, Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive

In the mid-1700’s the East India Company has power over commerce on the sub-continent, with the blessings of the British government. Read More »