Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
U samogo sinego morya / By the Bluest of Seas (1936) Boris Barnet, S. Mardanin, Alexei Dolinin, Sergey Komarov, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Drama, Musical, Romance
Yussuf and Aliosha are two shipwrecked sailors on an island in the Caspian Sea. Read More »
Follow the Leader (1930) Norman Taurog, Ed Wynn, Ginger Rogers, Stanley Smith, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Crickets is the cheery, lovable chef at gangland’s favorite restaurant and, inadvertently ( and barely explainable), he becomes a hero in their eyes and becomes their unwilling leader. Read More »
Dark Journey (1937) Victor Saville, Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner, Adventure, Romance, Thriller
World War I is raging, but Swedish store clerk Madeleine Goddard (Vivien Leigh) has not aligned herself with either side. Read More »
Up for Murder (1931) Monta Bell, Edward L. Cahn, Lew Ayres, Genevieve Tobin, Purnell Pratt, Drama
Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper’s editor in a fight over the publisher’s mistress, who is also the paper’s society editor. Read More »
La Habanera / Cheated by the Wind (1937) Douglas Sirk, Zarah Leander, Ferdinand Marian, Karl Martell, Drama, Musical
Astrée Sternhjelm is visiting Puerto Rico with her aunt Ana, and is enchanted by the island. Read More »
The Last Train from Madrid (1937) James P. Hogan, Dorothy Lamour, Lew Ayres, Gilbert Roland, Drama
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
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Big Town Girl (1937) Alfred L. Werker, Claire Trevor, Donald Woods, Alan Dinehart, Drama, Comedy
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the “Masked Countess”, because he estranged husband is a crook. Read More »
Broadway Bill (1934) Frank Capra, Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly, Comedy, Drama
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Read More »
Abraham Lincoln (1930) D.W. Griffith, Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Biography, Drama, History
Brief vignettes about Lincoln’s early life include his birth, early jobs, (unsubstantiated) affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates Read More »