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Tag Archives: 1930s
Whom the Gods Love (1936) Basil Dean, Stephen Haggard, Victoria Hopper, John Loder
The story of Mozart and his wife Constance, set against a background of court intrigue and professional jealousy, with music conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. Read More »
Secret Agent (1936) Alfred Hitchcock, John Gielgud, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young
During the first world war, novelist Edgar Brodie is sent to Switzerland by the Intelligence Service. Read More »
Slightly Scarlet (1930) Louis J. Gasnier, Edwin H. Knopf, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook, Paul Lukas
Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Read More »
A Bill of Divorcement (1932) George Cukor, John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, Billie Burke
After spending fifteen years in an asylum, Hilary Fairfield escapes from the institution after regaining his sanity. Read More »
Strangers in Love (1932) Lothar Mendes, Fredric March, Kay Francis, Stuart Erwin
In the film, March briefly plays a double role as brothers who hate each other. Read More »
Quick Money (1937) Edward Killy, Fred Stone, Gordon Jones, Dorothy Moore
Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years. Read More »
Hells Angels (1930) Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding, Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow
Two brothers attending Oxford enlist with the RAF when World War I breaks out. Read More »
Submarine D-1 (1937) Lloyd Bacon, Pat O’Brien, George Brent, Wayne Morris
Navy officers fall for Ann. She has her own plans. USS Pensacola is struck during a last dive drill, there is an attempt to rescue. Read More »
So This Is Africa (1933) Edward F. Cline, Robert Woolsey, Bert Wheeler, Raquel Torres
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey play a couple of broke, hungry vaudevillians who are holed up in a hotel room with a few (tame) lions. Read More »