Allan Gray arrives late in the evening to a secluded riverside inn in the hamlet of Courtempierre. An old man enters his room, puts a sealed parcel on the table, blurts out that some woman mustn’t die, and disappears. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939) Harold S. Bucquet, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lionel Atwill, Drama
Dr. Gillespie’s cancer has gotten worse, and to force him to take a rest instead of pursuing a sulfa-drug/pneumonia study, Kildare refuses to assist Gillespie, and instead accepts a case of hysterical blindness. She’s also the daughter of a millionaire who could help the hospital. Read More »
Lelícek ve sluzbách Sherlocka Holmese / Lelicek in the Services of Sherlock Holmes (1932) Carl Lamac, Vlasta Burian, Martin Fric, Lída Baarová, Comedy
Ferdinand XXIII., the king of Portorico, is exaggeratedly scared of anarchists. Thus he hires a famous detective Sherlock Holmes to find him a double. Read More »
El fantasma del convento / The Phantom of the Convent (1934) Fernando de Fuentes, Enrique del Campo, Marta Roel, Carlos Villatoro, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Alfonso, Eduardo and Cristina get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. Read More »
The False Madonna (1931) Stuart Walker, Kay Francis, William ‘Stage’ Boyd, Conway Tearle
A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man; she comes to feel a true motherly love for the young man, and refuses to try to cheat him. Read More »
Career Woman (1936) Lewis Seiler, Claire Trevor, Michael Whalen, Isabel Jewell, Drama
A girl accused of killing her father is defended unsuccessfully by a flashy lawyer and successfully by a new, straightforward one. Read More »
Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937) George Marshall, Otto Preminger, Victor McLaglen, Walter Connolly, Peter Lorre, Drama
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he’s her father. Read More »
Battle of Broadway (1938) George Marshall, Allan Dwan, Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Music, Romance
Two American Legionnaires on convention in New York share adventures and rivalries in an around show biz. Read More »
The Milky Way (1936) Leo McCarey, Ray McCarey, Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Verree Teasdale, Comedy
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. Read More »
The House of Fear (1939) Joe May, William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Dorothy Arnold, Crime, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor’s murder, which occurred during the performance of a play. Read More »