This is the first sound version of George Kelly’s THE SHOW OFF. There was a silent version starring Ford Sterling a few years earlier and two MGM versions later on, one starring Spencer Tracy and the other Red Skelton. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Border Cafe (1937) Lew Landers, Harry Carey, John Beal, Armida, Music, Romance, Western
Easterner Keith Whitney, son of a wealthy Senator, heads west where he ends up a drunk at a border cafe. Read More »
Jewel Robbery (1932) William Dieterle, William Powell, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson, Comedy, Crime, Romance
When a baroness is present during a robbery at a jewellers in Vienna, she finds the gang’s debonair leader more attractive than either her husband or her lover.
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Yotamono to komachimusume / Lumberjack and Lady (1935) Hiromasa Nomura, Shozaburo Abe, Akio Isono, Sôjin Kamiyama, Comedy
A Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a practical joke and romance are the set up for some great comedy and drama from a team of distinctive appearance who are exploiting their silent cinema styles to the full. Read More »
Aizen katsura / The Love-Troth Tree (1938) Hiromasa Nomura, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ken Uehara, Hideo Fujino, Drama, Romance
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 »
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 »