Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, confides to English Professor Ronald Brooke that she is willing to gold-dig and blackmail her way to a Paris vacation. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
O.H.M.S. / Youre in the Army Now (1937) Raoul Walsh, Wallace Ford, John Mills, Anna Lee, Action, Comedy, Drama
American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Read More »
Christopher Strong (1933) Dorothy Arzner, Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke, Drama, Romance
At a party for Bright Young Things, a “treasure hunt” for attractive yet virtuous people nets Sir Christopher Strong, M.P., and Lady Cynthia Darrington, dashing aviatrix. Read More »
Things to Come (1936) William Cameron Menzies, Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
A global war begins in 1940. This war drags out over many decades until most of the people still alive (mostly those born after the war started) do not even know who started it or why. Read More »
Madam Satan (1930) Cecil B. DeMille, Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth, Musical, Romance, Comedy
Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband. Read More »
Off the Record (1939) James Flood, Pat O’Brien, Joan Blondell, Bobby Jordan, Drama
Blondell and O’Brien star as newspaper reporters who inadvertently send Jordan to reform school after they write an expose of the illegal slot-machine racket the boy was a spotter for. Read More »
Shipmates (1931) Harry A. Pollard, Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Jordan, Comedy, Drama, Romance
The handsome young seaman John Paul Jones falls in love with Kit Corbin. Kit is the daughter of admiral Ben Corbin. Read More »
Lovers Courageous (1932) Robert Z. Leonard, Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, Roland Young, Drama, Romance
Englishman and family black sheep travels the world working odd jobs while dreaming of being a playwright. Read More »
The Bat Whispers (1930) Roland West, Chance Ward, Richard Tucker, Wilson Benge, Crime, Thriller, Horror, Drama, Mystery, Comedy
Despite advance warning to the police, who seal off the area, The Bat, a master criminal, steals a necklace from the safe in the house of a rich socialite. Read More »
Seas Beneath (1931) John Ford, George O’Brien, Marion Lessing, Mona Maris, Action, Drama, War
In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. “Mystery Ship,” sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine. Read More »