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Tag Archives: 1930s
Mr. Wong, Detective (1938) William Nigh, Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Maxine Jennings, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. Read More »
Strange Interlude (1932) Robert Z. Leonard, Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Drama
The thoughts that people think are never the same as the words they speak – and in this movie, we can hear the thoughts. Read More »
Four Frightened People (1934) Cecil B. DeMille, Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, Adventure, Drama
Four passengers escape their bubonic plague-infested ship and land on the coast of a wild jungle. Read More »
Only Yesterday (1933) John M. Stahl, Margaret Sullavan, John Boles, Edna May Oliver, Drama, Romance
A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman Read More »
An Inn in Tokyo (1935) Yasujirô Ozu, Takeshi Sakamoto, Yoshiko Okada, Chôko Iida, Drama
Unemployed Kihachi and his two sons struggle to make ends meet. But that doesn’t keep Kihachi from wooing single mother Otaka. Read More »
The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933) Archie Mayo, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Romance, Drama
Prizefighter Jimmy Dolan accidentally kills a man at a party and escapes. Read More »
Downstairs (1932) Monta Bell, John Gilbert, Paul Lukas, Virginia Bruce, Drama, Romance
At the wedding of Albert and Anna, Karl, the new chauffeur, arrives. Albert is the head butler, second generation to the Baron. Read More »
Virtue (1932) Edward Buzzell, Carole Lombard, Pat O’Brien, Ward Bond, Drama
A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver Read More »
The Vagabond King (1930) Ludwig Berger, Ernst Lubitsch, Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, O.P. Heggie, Musical, Romance
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. Read More »