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Tag Archives: 1930s
Thirteen Women (1932) George Archainbaud, Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond
Thirteen women who were schoolmates send to a swami for their horoscopes. Read More »
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) John Ford, Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater
A few short hours after President Lincoln has been assassinated, Dr. Samuel Mudd Read More »
Feet First (1930) Clyde Bruckman, Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent, Robert McWade
Ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss’ daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. Read More »
Skyscraper Souls (1932) Edgar Selwyn, Warren William, Maureen O’Sullivan, Gregory Ratoff
Aspirations and the lives of several people working at the gigantic Seacoast National Bank Building interweave in various plots. Read More »
A Political Party (1934) Norman Lee, John Mills, Enid Stamp-Taylor, H.F. Maltby
A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. Read More »
American Madness (1932) Frank Capra, Walter Huston, Pat O’Brien, Kay Johnson
It’s the 1930s, the Depression era, and the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson’s bank want Dickson to merge with New York Trust and resign. He refuses. Read More »
Public Wedding (1937) Nick Grinde, Jane Wyman, William Hopper, Dick Purcell
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake ‘public wedding’ Read More »
The Last Gangster (1937) Edward Ludwig, Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rose Stradner
Gangster Joe Krozac is in prison for ten years. Reporter Paul North is fired by his newspaper for writing articles sympathetic to Krozac’s wife and young son. Read More »
That Night’s Wife (1930) Yasujirô Ozu, Mitsuko Ichimura, Tokihiko Okada, Chishû Ryû
A desperate man with a sick daughter decides to commit a robbery in order to help her. Read More »