
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 »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) John Ford

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 »
Just a Gigolo (1931) Jack Conway

Haines plays the role of a festive British nobleman, for whom a marriage has been arranged by his relatives. Read More »
Framed (1930) George Archainbaud, Evelyn Brent, Regis Toomey, Ralf Harolde

Rose Manning, the daughter of a racketeer who has just been killed, along with a policeman Read More »
Guilty Parents (1934) Jack Townley, Jean Lacy, Glen Boles, Donald Keith

A young girl is being tried for murder. Her defense attorney attempts to show how her descent into a life of crime Read More »