This romance is set during the Dartmouth College Winter Carnival and follows the exploits of a woman recently divorced from a count who has returned to her alma mater for the annual carnival. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
You Only Live Once (1937) Fritz Lang, Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Joan is the secretary to the public defender in a large city. She is in love with a career criminal named Eddie, and she believes that he is a basically good person who just had some tough breaks. Read More »
Television Spy (1939) Edward Dmytryk, William Henry, Judith Barrett, William Collier Sr., Drama, Sci-Fi
It’s 1939. The scientist Douglas Cameron invents a television device called the “Iconoscope”. With the Iconoscope television broadcasts can be send across the country. Read More »
Shen nu / The Goddess (1934) Yonggang Wu, Lingyu Ruan, Tian Jian, Zhizhi Zhang, Drama
An unnamed devoted mother sells herself by night on the streets of Shanghai in order to support herself and her infant son. Read More »
La tête d’un homme / A Man’s Neck (1933) Julien Duvivier, Harry Baur, Valéry Inkijinoff, Alexandre Rignault, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Willy Ferriere is dead broke and his mistress costs a lot. One day, he says in a pub that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt. Read More »
Malu Tianshi / Street Angel (1937) Muzhi Yuan, Dan Zhao, Heling Wei, Xuan Zhou, Comedy, Drama, Musical
In old Shanghai, two sisters, a prostitute and a singer, tried to escape from the local scoundrels with the help of a trumpet player and a newspaper seller. Read More »
The Little Colonel (1935) David Butler, Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, Comedy, Family, Musical
After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Read More »
East Side of Heaven (1939) David Butler, Bing Crosby, Joan Blondell, Mischa Auer, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Singer Denny Martin’s marriage to telephone operator Mary Wilson has been postponed several times already and is delayed once again when he changes jobs from singing telegrams to being a singing cab driver. Read More »
Bolero (1934) Wesley Ruggles, Mitchell Leisen, George Raft, Carole Lombard, Sally Rand, Drama, Music
This is the story of an egotistical nightclub dance performer named Raoul, his determination to succeed at all costs Read More »
The President Vanishes (1934) William A. Wellman, Edward Arnold, Arthur Byron, Paul Kelly, Drama
Like the anonymous novel (generally credited to Rex Stout) upon which it is based, the photoplay tells how a peace-loving President prevents his country from being stampeded into a European war. Read More »