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Tag Archives: 1930s
I Love That Man (1933) Harry Joe Brown, Edmund Lowe, Nancy Carroll, Robert Armstrong

This drama chronicles the devoted love of a woman who tries to reform her lover, a black marketeer with a compulsive gambling problem. Read More »
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) Rowland V. Lee, Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern

Edmond Dantes is imprisoned in the Chateau d’If without trial, for carrying a message from Napoleon in exile on Elba. Read More »
The Captain from Kopenick (1931) Richard Oswald, Max Adalbert, Ernst Dernburg, Willi Schur

Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain’s uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen Read More »
Midnight Mary (1933) William A. Wellman, Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Ricardo Cortez

A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager Read More »
The Girl of the Golden West (1938)

Mary Robbins is a moderately educated, beautiful, young woman who owns the saloon called “The Poker”. Read More »
Brother Rat (1938) William Keighley, Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Johnnie Davis

Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father. Read More »
70,000 Witnesses (1932) Ralph Murphy, Phillips Holmes, Dorothy Jordan, Charles Ruggles

College football player (Phillips Holmes)is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother(Lew Cody). Read More »
No Blood Relation (1932) Mikio Naruse, Yoshiko Okada, Shin’yô Nara, Yukiko Tsukuba

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim – with the help of her gangster brother – the daughter she abandoned years before. Read More »
David Copperfield (1935) George Cukor, Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph

When David’s father dies, his mother remarries. His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean and cruel view on how to raise a child. Read More »