Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
A Brother and His Younger Sister / Ani to sono imoto (1939) Yasujirô Shimazu, Reikichi Kawamura, Michiko Kuwano, Kuniko Miyake
A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. Read More »
Es war eine rauschende Ballnacht (1939) It Was a Gay Ballnight
1865. Katharina goes to a ball in Moscow. There she meets again Tchaikowsky, her first and only love. Read More »
Queen of Hearts (1936) Monty Banks, Gracie Fields, John Loder, Enid Stamp-Taylor
An ordinary working class seamstress who is mistaken as a rich patron of the arts. Read More »
The Secret of Stamboul (1936) Andrew Marton, Valerie Hobson, James Mason, Frank Vosper
The British agent Larry travels to Istanbul (Constantinople), Turkey in order to thwart a revolution. Read More »
Murder in the Private Car (1934) Harry Beaumont, Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle
Ruth Raymond works on the switchboard and her boyfriend is John Blake. Read More »
Secret Service (1931) J. Walter Ruben, Richard Dix, William Post Jr., Shirley Grey
Lewis Dumont, a Northern officer in the American Civil War, works undercover behind Confederate Read More »
No Other Woman (1933) J. Walter Ruben
A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Read More »
Listen, Darling (1938) Edwin L. Marin, Judy Garland, Freddie Bartholomew, Mary Astor
To stop Pinkie’s mother Dottie from marrying a man they know she does not love, Pinkie and her friend Buzz kidnap Read More »
Ballerina (1937) Jean Benoît-Lévy, Yvette Chauviré
As its title indicates, La Mort du Cygne (The Dying Swan) is set in the special world of the ballet. Read More »