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Tag Archives: 1930s
Juarez (1939) William Dieterle, Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne
The newly-named Emperor Maximillian, the only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire Read More »
Those Three French Girls (1930) Harry Beaumont, Erle C. Kenton, Fifi D’Orsay, Reginald Denny, Cliff Edwards
Three attractive young women cause misadventures for visiting Americans. Read More »
The 39 Steps (1935) Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of “Mr Memory”‘s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. Read More »
Anne of Green Gables (1934) George Nichols Jr., Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, O.P. Heggie
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is adopted by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla Read More »
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) Alfred L. Werker, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino
Professor Moriarity has a scheme for stealing the crown jewels from the Tower of London. Read More »
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) Sidney Lanfield, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene
On his uncle’s death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from abroad Read More »
The Admiral’s Secret (1934) Guy Newall, Edmund Gwenn, Aubrey Mather, James Raglan
Edmund Gwenn is a retired naval officer who has acquired an old valuable relic by force. Read More »
Four Hours to Kill! (1935) Mitchell Leisen, Richard Barthelmess, Joe Morrison, Gertrude Michael
A detective who has “four hours to kill” before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer Read More »
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
The 41st Bengal Lancers are stationed on the Northwest Frontier of British India Read More »