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Tag Archives: 1930s
Rich and Strange (1931) Alfred Hitchcock, Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont
Fred and Emily Hill are leading a boring life in London. Read More »
Shoot the Works (1934) Wesley Ruggles, Jack Oakie, Ben Bernie, Dorothy Dell
Jack Oakie stars as seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Read More »
Broadway Hostess (1935) Frank McDonald, Wini Shaw, Genevieve Tobin, Lyle Talbot
Winnie Wharton gets an audition to sing at the Intime nightclub at the urging of Ted “Lucky” Lorimer, and with Tommy Blake as her pianist, she becomes a big hit. Read More »
The Whole Towns Talking (1935) John Ford, Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. Read More »
The Walking Dead (1936) Michael Curtiz, Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn
A gang of racketeers frames down-on-his-luck John Ellman for murder. Read More »
Hell’s House (1932) Howard Higgin, Bette Davis, Pat O’Brien, Junior Durkin
Jimmy Mason idolizes bootlegger Matt Kelly who is dating Peggy. Read More »
The Girl in the Taxi (1937) André Berthomieu, Frances Day, Henri Garat, Lawrence Grossmith
In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. Read More »
Wanted! Jane Turner (1936) Edward Killy, Lee Tracy, Gloria Stuart, Ann Preston
Postal Investigators Tom and Doris follow a trail from a mail robbery on the East Coast to Los Angeles Read More »
Rasputin and the Empress (1932) Richard Boleslawski, John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore
As Europe looms on the edge of war in 1913, the family and members of the court of the Russian czar Nicholas Read More »