
Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Aren’t Men Beasts! (1937) Graham Cutts, Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton, Billy Milton

British groom-to-be Billy Milton is labelled a “beast” by French floozie Ellen Pollock as Milton marches down the aisle. Read More »
Rynox (1931) Michael Powell, Stewart Rome, John Longden, Dorothy Boyd

Business tycoon F. X. Benedik claims he has been threatened by a mysterious Read More »
Before the Finals / Pred maturitou (1932) Svatopluk Innemann, Vladislav Vancura, Jindrich Plachta, Frantisek Smolík, Antonín Novotný

Two high school boys, both taken with a girl in another school, are expelled Read More »
At Home in Kocourkov / U nás v Kocourkove (1934) Miroslav Cikán, Jan Werich, Jindrich Plachta, Václav Trégl

At Kocourkov railway station, an escaped fraudster Ferdinand Kaplan arrives and is welcomed Read More »
Thirteen Days of Love / Escale (1935) Louis Valray, Colette Darfeuil, Samson Fainsilber, Serge Arola

The decline of Eva, torn by her love for Jean, a naval officer, and her lust for Dario, a sly smuggler. Read More »
A Little Flirt (1934) Gustaf Molander, Tutta Rolf

Diddi Werner is an orphan and has been raised by her aunts Lotten and Amalia. Read More »
Long Lost Father (1934) Ernest B. Schoedsack, John Barrymore, Helen Chandler, Donald Cook

Carl Bellairs and Lindsey Lane, his daughter, meet many years after he deserted her and her mother. Read More »
Spitfire (1934) John Cromwell, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young, Ralph Bellamy

Mountain girl Trigger Hicks, a fierce loner equally handy with a rock or a prayer Read More »
Live, Love and Learn (1937) George Fitzmaurice, Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley

Bob is a struggling artist who paints for his own amusement. Julie is a rich society girl. Read More »