
A young man races to save his son’s life, but death – incarnated in the child’s imagination as the titular Erl King – calls unceasingly. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Whirlpool (1934) Roy William Neill, Jack Holt, Jean Arthur, Donald Cook

Carnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight Read More »
Dragnet Girl (1933) Yasujirô Ozu, Kinuyo Tanaka, Jôji Oka, Sumiko Mizukubo

Tokiko is an office typist who is more pleased at catching the owner’s son attention than he knows. Read More »
Fashions of 1934 (1934) William Dieterle

Sherwood Nash is a swindler who bootlegs Paris fashions for sale at cut-rate prices. Read More »
Reefer Madness (1936) Louis J. Gasnier, Dorothy Short, Kenneth Craig, Lillian Miles

Film that relates the story, as told by high school principal Dr. Carroll to parents at a PTA meeting, of the scourge of marijuana. Read More »
The Woman Accused (1933) Paul Sloane, Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, John Halliday

During a three-day pleasure cruise, a murder victim’s friend (John Halliday) tries to trick a new bride (Nancy Carroll) into admitting her guilt. Read More »
Stowaway (1936) William A. Seiter, Shirley Temple, Robert Young, Alice Faye

Ching-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. Read More »
A Woman’s Face (1938) Gustaf Molander, Ingrid Bergman, Tore Svennberg, Anders Henrikson

When she was a child, Anna Holm burned her face. This destroyed her looks, and she has become a mean and bitter woman. Read More »
To Beat the Band (1935) Benjamin Stoloff, Hugh Herbert, Helen Broderick, Roger Pryor

An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt’s will Read More »
After the Dance (1935) Leo Bulgakov, Nancy Carroll, George Murphy, Thelma Todd

Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man Read More »