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Tag Archives: 1930s
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 »
Blonde Venus (1932) Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Herbert Marshall
American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. Read More »
Her Master’s Voice (1936) Joseph Santley, Edward Everett Horton, Peggy Conklin, Laura Hope Crews
Edward Everett Horton plays radio celebrity Ned Farrar, “The Fireside Troubadour.” Read More »
When’s Your Birthday? (1937) Harry Beaumont, Robert Clampett, Joe E. Brown, Marian Marsh, Fred Keating
Sad sack Dustin Willoughby is a true believer in the power of astrology. Read More »
The Man Who Committed the Murder / Der Mann, der den Mord beging (1931) Curtis Bernhardt, Conrad Veidt, Trude von Molo, Heinrich George
The story is about Conrad Veidt as military attache in Turkey where he learns Read More »
The Count Of The Old Town / Munkbrogreven (1935) Edvin Adolphson, Valdemar Dalquist, Julia Cæsar, Sigurd Wallén
This comedy romp takes place in and around Stockholm’s Old Town, which is inhabited by various dubious characters doing dubious things Read More »
Hotel Imperial (1939) Robert Florey
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man’s-land where the Russians Read More »