
Sally Trent has an illegitimate child, but cannot support her and gives the baby up for adoption. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934) William Nigh, Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Arline Judge, Mystery

Investigating a series of murders in Chinatown, wise-guy reporter Jason Barton is captured by the megalomaniacal Mr. Wong Read More »
Gunga Din (1939) George Stevens, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen, Adventure, Comedy, War

Based loosely on the poem by Rudyard Kipling, this takes place in British India during the Thuggee uprising. Read More »
Great Expectations (1934) Stuart Walker, Henry Hull, Phillips Holmes, Jane Wyatt, Drama, Romance

Nine year-old orphan ‘Pip’ Pirrip lives with his harridan older sister and her hen-pecked but good-natured blacksmith husband Joe Gargery in rural, Regency-Period Britain. Read More »
Scarface (1932) Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson, Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Johnny Lovo rises to the head of the bootlegging crime syndicate on the south side of Chicago following the murder of former head, Big Louis Costillo. Read More »
Man Wanted (1932) William Dieterle, Kay Francis, David Manners, Una Merkel, Romance, Comedy, Drama

Lois is the editor of the 400 Magazine and is a work-a-holic. When Tom comes to her office to sell her a rowing machine, he leaves as her personal secretary. Read More »
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)

The old British musical-hall ditty “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” provides the title for this lightweight Ronald Colman vehicle. Read More »
Bizarre, Bizarre (1937) Marcel Carné, Louis Jouvet, Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon, Comedy

In Victorian London, the botanist Irwin Molyneux and his wife Margaret Molyneux are bankrupted Read More »
Night After Night (1932) Archie Mayo, George Raft, Constance Cummings, Wynne Gibson, Comedy, Drama

A successful ex-boxer opens a high-class speakeasy in what once was the childhood home of a formerly rich society girl. Read More »
Hot Saturday (1932) William A. Seiter, Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott, Drama, Romance

Bank employee Ruth Brock has a reputation around town for being fast-and-easy but none of the panting suitors has made her yet. Read More »