A poor but honest and hardworking waitress from way across the tracks meets and falls in love with a college student from the upper-stuffy class Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Boefje / Wilton’s Zoo (1939) Douglas Sirk, Annie van Ees, Albert van Dalsum, Enny Snijders, Crime, Drama
Twelve year old Jan Grovers spends more time in the alleys of Rotterdam than with his family (though he occasionally looks after his tree younger sisters, all of whom are called Mientje). Read More »
I Lived with You (1933) Maurice Elvey, Ivor Novello, Ursula Jeans, Ida Lupino, Comedy, Romance
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. Read More »
Me and My Gal (1932) Raoul Walsh, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Marion Burns, Drama, Comedy, Romance
Young New York cop Dan falls in love with waterfront waitress Helen. Helen’s sister Kate falls for gangster Duke. Dan must do in Duke.
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Scipione l’africano / The Defeat of Hannibal (1937) Carmine Gallone, Annibale Ninchi, Camillo Pilotto, Fosco Giachetti, Drama, History, War
A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio’s futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama. Read More »
Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932) James Cruze, Lee Tracy, Constance Cummings, Walter Connolly, Drama
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. Read More »
The Good Bad Girl (1931) Roy William Neill, Mae Clarke, James Hall, Marie Prevost, Romance, Drama
Marcia Cameron, the mistress of gang leader Dan Tyler, desires to end their relationship after she falls in love with Bob Henderson, an honest banker’s son who does not wish to know about her past. Read More »
Wedad (1936) Ahmed Badrakhan, Fritz Kramp, Ahmed Allam, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Abdel Fatah Hassan, Drama
Baher is a merchant in love with his serf Wedad who goes bankrupt because his merchandises are stolen. Read More »
Dragnet Patrol (1931) Frank R. Strayer, Glenn Tryon, Vera Reynolds, Marjorie Beebe, Action, Crime, Drama
Larry White (Glenn Tryon), the captain of a fishing schooner, is induced by his wife,Millie (Vera Reynolds),who has nothing against luxury Read More »
Divorce in the Family (1932) Charles Reisner, Jackie Cooper, Conrad Nagel, Lewis Stone, Drama, Romance
Divorced Ethnologist John Parker loves his two boys, Al and Terry, and misses them terribly when they have to leave his archaeological dig at the end of the summer. Read More »