A sexy singer in a French music hall falls in love with a handsome, but married, aristocrat. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
The Shadow (1937) Charles C. Coleman, Rita Hayworth, Charles Quigley, Marc Lawrence, Crime, Mystery
Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father’s death. Read More »
Special Inspector (1938) Leon Barsha, Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, George McKay, Crime, Drama, Romance
Filmed in Canada as part of the UK-Quota System: U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks Canadian fur-shipper’s trucks and sells the loot in the United States. Read More »
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) Stuart Walker, Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
John Jasper, a brooding, moody choirmaster at a finishing school in Victorian England, maintains a secret life that includes frequenting an opium den. Read More »
So Red the Rose (1935) King Vidor, Margaret Sullavan, Walter Connolly, Randolph Scott, Drama
SO RED THE ROSE is King Vidor’s quietly affecting Civil War romance, starring Margaret Sullavan as a Southern aristocrat, the mistress of a Southern plantation Read More »
Trouble in Paradise (1932) Ernst Lubitsch, Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Comedy, Crime, Romance
High class European thief Gaston Monescu meets his soul mate Lily, a pickpocket masquerading as a countess. Read More »
Homicide Bureau (1939) Charles C. Coleman, Bruce Cabot, Rita Hayworth, Marc Lawrence, Action, Crime, Drama
After being criticized by the Citizens’ League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases Read More »
Convicted (1938) Leon Barsha, Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, Marc Lawrence, Action, Crime, Drama, Music, Mystery
Police Detective Burns (Charles Quigley) is helping Jerry Wheeler (Rita Hayworth), a night-club singer, track down the killer of a gold-digger Read More »
Daughter of Shanghai (1937) Robert Florey, Anna May Wong, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Crime, Drama, Romance
Set in San Francisco, ANNA MAY WONG stars as woman who is thrust into danger after her father is murdered by criminals involved with human trafficking. Read More »
Magnificent Obsession (1935) John M. Stahl, Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles Butterworth, Drama, Romance
The life of spoiled rich Robert Merrick is saved through the use of a hospital’s only resuscitator, but because the medical device cannot be in two places at once Read More »