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Tag Archives: 1930s
Arrowsmith (1931) John Ford, Ronald Colman

Based on a Sinclair Lewis novel “Martin Arrowsmith”. A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine. Read More »
The Devil Plays (1931) Richard Thorpe, Jameson Thomas, Florence Britton, Thomas E. Jackson

A mystery novelist’s detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed. Read More »
Ouanga (1936) George Terwilliger, Fredi Washington, Philip Brandon, Marie Paxton

In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on a white male neighbor, who has chosen a white woman over her for marriage. Read More »
True to the Navy (1930) Frank Tuttle, Clara Bow, Fredric March, Harry Green

While sailors are know far and wide as having a girl in every port, all of the sailors in the Pacific Fleet appear to have the same girl when in their home-port of San Diego Read More »
Wharf Angel (1934) William Cameron Menzies, George Somnes, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Dell, Preston Foster

On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright’s bar. Read More »
Forty Naughty Girls (1937) Edward F. Cline, James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Marjorie Lord

Police Inspector Oscar Piper and Hildegared Withers attend the opening night of a Broadway play in New York City Read More »
Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) H. Bruce Humberstone, Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore

When an experimental plane is hijacked and its pilot murdered, the new guidance system that will allow it to fly unmanned is stolen. Read More »
Blondie of the Follies (1932) Edmund Goulding, Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Billie Dove

Blondie, a New York tenement dweller, and Lurlene are best friends. When Lurlene makes the cast of a big Broadway show, she arranges for Blondie to join the cast as well. Read More »
Student Tour (1934) Charles Reisner, Jimmy Durante, Charles Butterworth, Maxine Doyle

A college rowing team’s world tour is in jeopardy because a philosophy professor plans to flunk the entire crew. Read More »