
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Street Scene (1931) King Vidor, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Drama, Romance

In a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors of her residential building about the affair of Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey. Read More »
Miss Pinkerton (1932) Lloyd Bacon, Joan Blondell, George Brent, Ruth Hall, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues Read More »
Make Me a Star (1932) William Beaudine, Joan Blondell, Stuart Erwin, Zasu Pitts, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Menton Gill is longing to become a cowboy actor and leaves his hometown to try his luck in Hollywood, but there his acting ability is regarded as non-existent. Read More »
The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932) Lowell Sherman, Joan Blondell, Madge Evans, Ina Claire, Comedy

Sophisticated comedy: a trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. Read More »
The Famous Ferguson Case (1932) Lloyd Bacon, Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell, Vivienne Osborne, Crime, Drama

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Read More »
The Doorway to Hell (1930) Archie Mayo, Lew Ayres, James Cagney, Charles Judels, Crime, Drama

Lou Ricarno is a smart guy. His plan is to organize the various gangs in Chicago so that the mugs will not liquidate each other. Read More »
24 Hours (1931) Marion Gering, Clive Brook, Kay Francis, Miriam Hopkins, Drama

A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime. Read More »
First Love (1939) Henry Koster, Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette, Comedy, Musical

In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. Read More »
A Warm Corner (1930) Victor Saville, Leslie Henson, Heather Thatcher, Austin Melford, Comedy, Romance

This early Gainsborough flick is truly a lost treasure, and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. Read More »