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Tag Archives: 1930s
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) Henry Hathaway, Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda

A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans. Read More »
Navy Wife (1935) Allan Dwan, Claire Trevor

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

“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 »