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Tag Archives: 1930s
Three Wise Girls (1932) William Beaudine, Jean Harlow, Mae Clarke, Walter Byron, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. Read More »
Seven Days Leave (1930) Richard Wallace

Seven Day’s Leave was actually Gary Cooper’s first all talking film Read More »
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) F.W. Murnau, Anne Chevalier, Matahi, Hitu, Drama, Romance, Adventure

In his final film, F.W. Murnau presents the tale of two young lovers on the idyllic island of Bora Bora in the South Pacific. Read More »
Tsuma yo bara no yô ni / Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935) Mikio Naruse, Sachiko Chiba, Yuriko Hanabusa, Toshiko Itô, Drama

A young woman reaches maturity and yearns to know about her father. Her mother has poisoned her mind about the man who left her for another woman. Read More »
Schaste / Happiness (1935) Aleksandr Medvedkin, Pyotr Zinovyev, Yelena Yegorova, Nikolay Cherkasov, Comedy, Drama

A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other things) on his road to collectivized happiness. Read More »
Le quai des brumes / Port of Shadows (1938) Marcel Carné, Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller

Life’s a rotten business, says Jean, a deserter who arrives at night in Le Havre, looking to leave the country. Read More »
Of Human Bondage (1934) John Cromwell, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Frances Dee, Drama, Romance

Abandoning artistic ambitions, sensitive and club-footed Philip Carey enrolls in medical school and falls in love with a waitress Mildred Rogers. Read More »
Tail Spin (1939) Roy Del Ruth, Alice Faye, Constance Bennett, Nancy Kelly, Drama

Flyer enters a cross-country aerial derby, becomes rival to a wealthy society flyer, competes in parachute jumps and has love affairs. Read More »
Search for Beauty (1934) Erle C. Kenton, Buster Crabbe, Ida Lupino, Robert Armstrong, Comedy, Crime, Romance

Three shady characters – Larry, Jean, and Dan – want to make money legally by resuscitating a fitness magazine with cheesecake and beefcake photos and salacious stories with tacked-on morals. Read More »