
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 »
Tag Archives: 1930s
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 »
Convicted (1938) Leon Barsha, Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, Marc Lawrence, Action, Crime, Drama, Music, Mystery

Police Detective Burns (Charles Quigley) is helping Jerry Wheeler (Rita Hayworth), a night-club singer, track down the killer of a gold-digger Read More »
Daughter of Shanghai (1937) Robert Florey, Anna May Wong, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Crime, Drama, Romance

Set in San Francisco, ANNA MAY WONG stars as woman who is thrust into danger after her father is murdered by criminals involved with human trafficking. Read More »
Magnificent Obsession (1935) John M. Stahl, Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles Butterworth, Drama, Romance

The life of spoiled rich Robert Merrick is saved through the use of a hospital’s only resuscitator, but because the medical device cannot be in two places at once Read More »
Another Dawn (1937) William Dieterle, Kay Francis, Errol Flynn, Ian Hunter, Adventure, Drama, Romance

Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. Read More »