Tag Archives: 1930s
Orchids to You (1935) William A. Seiter, John Boles, Jean Muir, Charles Butterworth, Drama
Island of Lost Souls (1932) Erle C. Kenton, Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Adventure, Horror, Romance
I Am a Criminal (1938) William Nigh, John Carroll, Kay Linaker, Craig Reynolds, Crime, Drama
Man of the Forest (1933) Henry Hathaway, Randolph Scott, Verna Hillie, Harry Carey, Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Ninjô kami fûsen / Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937) Sadao Yamanaka, Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan’emon Nakamura, Tsuruzô Nakamura, Drama
The story develops in the Tokugawa era of the 18th century, in a poor district of Tokyo, where impoverished samurai live from hand to mouth among equally poor people of lower social classes. Read More »
Ihre Majestät die Liebe / Her Majesty Love (1931) Joe May, Käthe von Nagy, Francis Lederer, Otto Wallburg, Comedy
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 »
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 »
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 »