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Tag Archives: 1930s
The Downfall of Osen (1935) Kenji Mizoguchi, Isuzu Yamada, Daijirô Natsukawa, Mitsusaburô Ramon
In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Read More »
Dinner at Eight (1933) George Cukor, Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery
Millicent Jordan is pre-occupied with the plans she is making for a high-class dinner party. Read More »
Roadhouse Nights (1930) Hobart Henley, Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles, Fred Kohler
A boozing newsman (Charles Ruggles) woos a singer (Helen Morgan) while spying on her bootlegger boyfriend (Fred Kohler). Read More »
New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1931) Sam Wood, William Haines, Jimmy Durante, Ernest Torrence
Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. Read More »
One Way Passage (1932) Tay Garnett, William Powell, Kay Francis, Frank McHugh
Suave Dan Hardesty, a convicted murderer, is apprehended by Steve Burke, a police detective, in Hong Kong and accompanied on the SS Maloa headed for San Francisco. Read More »
Spring Madness (1938) S. Sylvan Simon, Maureen O’Sullivan, Lew Ayres, Ruth Hussey
In their last semester at Harvard, Sam Thatcher and his roommate, who is nicknamed “The Lippencott”, have grand ideas of seeing the remote corners of the world Read More »
Saturday’s Heroes (1937) Edward Killy, Van Heflin, Marian Marsh, Richard Lane
College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school’s hypocrisy. Read More »
Wake Up and Live (1937) Sidney Lanfield, Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Alice Faye
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell. Read More »
The Messenger (1937) Le messager
Nick,a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife, marries his new secretary Marie Read More »