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Tag Archives: 1930s
Love Affair (1932) Thornton Freeland, Dorothy Mackaill

Heiress Carol Owen learns to fly from aeronautical engineer Jim Leonard who begins Read More »
The Big Shakedown (1934) John Francis Dillon, Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez

Former bootlegger Nick Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate drugs. Read More »
Frisco Waterfront (1935) Arthur Lubin, Joseph Santley, Ben Lyon, Helen Twelvetrees, Rod La Rocque

As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes Read More »
Doctor Syn (1937) Roy William Neill, George Arliss, Margaret Lockwood, John Loder

When customs and excise men arrive at the village of Dymchurch in Kent Read More »
Moonlight Murder (1936) Edwin L. Marin, Chester Morris, Madge Evans, Leo Carrillo

Opera star Gino D’Acosta (Leo Carrillo), due to perform in the open air of the Hollywood Bowl Read More »
The Champ (1931) King Vidor, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper

Dink Purcell loves his alcoholic father, ex-heavyweight champion Andy “Champ” Purcell Read More »
Journal of a Crime (1934) William Keighley, Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd

A wife shoots her husband’s mistress. Afterwards, she is tormented by guilt when someone else is blamed for the crime. Read More »
The Life of Emile Zola (1937) William Dieterle, Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut

The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair. Read More »
Escala en la ciudad (1935) Alberto de Zavalía, Eduardo Berri, Matilde Bhor, Héctor Cataruzza

The story follows Jaime Lara, a passenger whose ship makes a stop in Buenos Aires for one day. Read More »