Itami, a young policeman, meets his high school friend, Tetsuo, a gangster, at a roadblock. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Becky Sharp (1935) Rouben Mamoulian, Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke
Set against the background of the Battle of Waterloo, Becky Sharp is the story of Vanity Fair by Thackeray. Read More »
You May Be Next! (1936) Albert S. Rogell
Gangster Beau Gardner (Douglass Dumbrille) runs an off-shore ship operation of jamming local radio stations Read More »
Artists and Models (1937) Raoul Walsh, Jack Benny, Ida Lupino, Richard Arlen
Mac Brewster (Benny) is head of an advertising firm that is in debt. The million-dollar Townsend Silver contract could save the firm, but the wealthy playboy Alan Townsend (Arlen) Read More »
Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) John Ford, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb
Dr. John Pearly is an affable, turn-of-the-century con man who sells a patent medicine whose primary ingredient is whiskey. Read More »
Little Toys (1933) Yu Sun, Lingyu Ruan, Congmei Yuan, Li-li Li
Sister Ye lives in a rural village, where everyone makes traditional toys. Read More »
Poison Pen (1939) Paul L. Stein, Flora Robson, Robert Newton, Ann Todd
A small, sedate British village is shocked when its residents begin receiving hate-filled diatribes, known as “poison pen letters”. Read More »
Missing Witnesses (1937) William Clemens, John Litel, Dick Purcell, Jean Dale
The daring of the racketeers, all working for one organization Read More »
Midnight Alibi (1934) Alan Crosland, Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak, Helen Chandler
A gambler hides out for some gangsters in an old lady’s house. Read More »
Professional Sweetheart (1933) William A. Seiter, Ginger Rogers, Norman Foster, Zasu Pitts
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood, in order to sell the sponsor’s product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. Read More »