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Tag Archives: 1930s
Navy Wife (1935) Allan Dwan, Claire Trevor, Ralph Bellamy, Jane Darwell
Hawaiian naval nurse Trevor weds widowed officer Bellamy partly because he has a crippled daughter. Read More »
Crime Ring (1938) Leslie Goodwins, Allan Lane, Frances Mercer, Clara Blandick
Newspaper reporter Joe Ryan and District Attorney Thomas Redwine strike a deal. Read More »
The Magnificent Fraud (1939) Robert Florey, Akim Tamiroff, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Boland
In this lively programmer a con man hires a character actor to masqueraded as the recently assassinated dictator of a tiny Latin American country Read More »
Wooden Crosses (1932) Raymond Bernard, Pierre Blanchar, Gabriel Gabrio, Charles Vanel
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. Read More »
Carnival (1935) Walter Lang, Lee Tracy, Sally Eilers, Jimmy Durante
“Chick” Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names “Poochy.” Read More »
Personal Column (1939) Robert Siodmak, Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir, Marie Déa
After one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man who she met through a personal column advert Read More »
Smart Money (1931) Alfred E. Green, Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp
Nick Venizelos, an immigrant Greek barber, has an uncommon affinity for poker and other sorts of wagering and a group of his friends bankroll him in a big game Read More »
Escape from Yesterday (1935) Julien Duvivier, Annabella, Jean Gabin, Robert Le Vigan
Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. Read More »
The Mystery of Mr. X (1934) Edgar Selwyn, Richard Boleslawski, Robert Montgomery, Elizabeth Allan, Lewis Stone
There have been a spate of London police murders, the victims always killed by a long knife (which the police know is a sword cane) Read More »