
The film spotlights famed composer Franz Schubert, who loves a woman from afar. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Frankenstein (1931) James Whale, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff

The 1931 horror movie “Frankenstein”, tells the tale of when Henry Frankenstein who is a doctor Read More »
Dainah the Mixed / Daïnah la métisse (1932) Jean Grémillon, Charles Vanel, Habib Benglia, Gaston Dubosc

Shades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean liner. Read More »
Her Majesty, Love (1931) William Dieterle, Marilyn Miller, Ben Lyon, W.C. Fields

The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred’s fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner. Read More »
Two Thoroughbreds (1939) Jack Hively, Jimmy Lydon, Joan Leslie, Arthur Hohl

A group of gangsters steal the valuable brood-mare “Larkspur” from the Conway Ranch in Arizona. Read More »
Prom / Le bal (1931) Wilhelm Thiele, Germaine Dermoz, Danielle Darrieux, André Lefaur

Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl. Read More »
Payment Deferred (1932) Lothar Mendes, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan, Ray Milland

Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family’s bills. Read More »
Midshipman Jack (1933) Christy Cabanne, Bruce Cabot, Betty Furness, Frank Albertson

Given a last chance, after failing to graduate with his class at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis Read More »
Sunny (1930) William A. Seiter, Marilyn Miller, Lawrence Gray, Joe Donahue

To be near the fella she loves, an English bareback rider dons dungarees and cap to pass as a boy stows away to America Read More »
Woman Against the World (1937) David Selman, Alice Moore, Edgar Edwards, Ralph Forbes

Anna Plummer (Alice Moore), daughter of a Canadian farmer, secretly marries against her father’s will. Read More »