
Daubeney Carshott, a concert pianist, leaves London to dive for pearls on Thursday Island in the South Seas at the whim of Stella Raff, his fiancée. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Ladies Man (1931) Lothar Mendes, William Powell, Kay Francis, Carole Lombard, Drama

A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in “society.” Read More »
Under Pressure (1935) Raoul Walsh, Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Florence Rice, Drama

Two members of a crew of “sandhogs”, men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work. Read More »
Ann Carvers Profession (1933) Edward Buzzell, Fay Wray, Gene Raymond, Claire Dodd, Drama

After graduation from Hampden University, Bill “Lightning” Graham, a football star, and Ann Carver, who just passed her bar exam, marry. Read More »
Legion of Terror (1936) Charles C. Coleman, Bruce Cabot, Marguerite Churchill, Crawford Weaver, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance

Two newly-appointed postal inspectors, Frank Marshall and ‘Slim” Hewitt, set out to track down the sender of a time-bomb to a U. S. Senator and, during their investigation Read More »
Zaza (1938) George Cukor, Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Bert Lahr, Drama, Romance

A sexy singer in a French music hall falls in love with a handsome, but married, aristocrat. Read More »
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 »