A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura (Uehara), falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi (Tanaka). But she’s got a secret: she’s a widow with a son. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Geronimo (1939) Paul Sloane, Preston Foster, Ellen Drew, Andy Devine, Adventure, Western
The army’s effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder Read More »
Fisherman’s Wharf (1939) Bernard Vorhaus, Bobby Breen, Leo Carrillo, Henry Armetta, Adventure, Drama, Music
Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman’s life in San Francisco until Carlo’s widowed sister-in-law, Stella Read More »
Ungen (1938) Rasmus Breistein, Eva Sletto, Harald Heide Steen, Ragnhild Hald, Drama
The classic movie from 1938 is an adaptation of Oscar Braatens play. Eva Sletto plays the young factory worker Milja, and Harald Heide Steen as her unfaithful boyfriend Julius. Read More »
Das Geheimnis der roten Katze / The Secret of the Red Cat (1931) Erich Schönfelder, Rosa Valetti, Hans Junkermann, Margot Landa, Comedy, Crime
“The Red Cat” is a seedy dive. The rich American, Jefferson, who shows up there one day with his family and who recently became the proud owner of the famous Halifax emerald Read More »
High Flyers (1937) Edward F. Cline, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Lupe Velez, Comedy
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Read More »
A Demon for Trouble (1934) Robert F. Hill, Bob Steele, Don Alvarado, Gloria Shea, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Dyer is buying ranches and then retrieving his check by having his gang kill the owner. Bob Worth arrives just as Buck Morton is killed and gets blamed for the murder. Read More »
Roar of the Dragon (1932) Wesley Ruggles, Richard Dix, Gwili Andre, Edward Everett Horton, Adventure, Romance
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Read More »
The Roaring Twenties (1939) Raoul Walsh, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Read More »
Arizona to Broadway (1933) James Tinling, James Dunn, Joan Bennett, Herbert Mundin, Comedy, Crime, Romance
In the small town of Larrup, Arizona, Smiley, a con-artist traveling with cohorts Kingfish, Morris and Ambrose, persuades Lynn Martin Read More »