Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Heat Lightning (1934) Mervyn LeRoy, Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster
In the Mohave Desert, Olga runs a gas station, lunch counter, and auto camp with her younger sister Myra. Read More »
The Black King (1932) Bud Pollard, A.B. DeComathiere, Vivianne Baber, Knolly Mitchell
Fiery preacher Charcoal Johnson, though no model of sanctity, gains control of a Mississippi Baptist church Read More »
A Mother Should Be Loved (1934) Yasujirô Ozu, Yûkichi Iwata, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Den Ohinata
The film tells of the strained relationship between a mother and her two sons after the death of the family patriarch. Read More »
The Life of the Party (1930) Roy Del Ruth, Winnie Lightner, Irene Delroy, Jack Whiting
Broadway song-pluggers Flo and Dot, besieged with admirers, are fired; disgusted with men, they decide to become gold-diggers. Read More »
Billy the Kid (1930) King Vidor, Johnny Mack Brown, Wallace Beery, Kay Johnson
In this version of the Billy the Kid legend, Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan’s henchmen for killing Billy’s boss Read More »
Show Boat (1936) James Whale, Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger
Adaptation of the Broadway musical. Magnolia Hawks is the lovely but protected, and thus very naive Read More »
Juno and the Paycock (1930) Alfred Hitchcock, Sara Allgood, Edward Chapman, Barry Fitzgerald
During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. Read More »
Elstree Calling (1930) André Charlot, Jack Hulbert, Tommy Handley, Gordon Begg, Teddy Brown
A series of nineteen musical and comedy “vaudeville” sketches presented in the form of a live broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself) Read More »
Broadway to Hollywood (1933) Willard Mack, Jules White, Alice Brady, Frank Morgan, Jackie Cooper
Ted and Lulu Hackett are vaudeville’s The Hacketts, a fairly successful song-and-dance team. Read More »