Tag Archives: 1930s

‘Bus’ Green works hard at her department but dreams of a better life. She falls hard for fast talking gambler Wally who showers her with gifts. Read More »

A ruthless but clever gangster who knows every loophole in the law has the tables turned by a dedicated District Attorney and his assistant. Read More »

A publisher bets an author that he won’t be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco. Read More »

The snobbish & intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he can take a London flower seller Read More »

London fop Percy Blakeney is also secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel who, in a variety of disguises, makes repeated daring trips to France to save aristocrats from Madame Guillotine. Read More »

Mae West portrays a turn-of-century confidence trickster who poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest. Read More »

A policeman (William Boyd) investigates a woman’s (Lilyan Tashman) link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a family mausoleum. Read More »

A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police’s description. Read More »

Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll’s Vanities Read More »

When ex-convict cabbie Jimmy Carmody is framed in a jewelry store robbery and murder, an old friend arranges for him to flee the country to the island of Caribo Read More »