In 1926, Warner Bros.’ Vitaphone branch made movie history with its “sound-on-disc” recording process, and the studio-within-a-studio would go on to make a variety of short subjects: musicals, stage revues, comedies, documentaries, and more. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Black Gold (1936) Russell Hopton, Frankie Darro, LeRoy Mason, Gloria Shea
Dan O’Reilly, who has spent forty years working in oil fields, is about to strike Read More »
Soul of the Slums (1931) Frank R. Strayer, William Collier Jr., Blanche Mehaffey, James Bradbury Jr.
A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn’t commit Read More »
Hands Across the Table (1935) Mitchell Leisen, Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy
Hotel manicurist Regi Allen is a cynical golddigger who meets her match in Theodore ‘Ted’ Drew III. Read More »
Three Cornered Moon (1933) Elliott Nugent, Claudette Colbert, Richard Arlen, Mary Boland
Nellie Rimplegar has to tell her grown children that due to her bungled handling of their finances Read More »
Beauty and the Boss (1932) Roy Del Ruth, Marian Marsh, David Manners, Warren William
The Baron is a banker, in Vienna, that operates at at extremely fast pace. Read More »
From Headquarters (1933) William Dieterle, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette
A wealthy Broadway playboy is found dead. He was actually a vicious blackmailer. Read More »
Kongo (1932) William J. Cowen, Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, Conrad Nagel
This remake of West of Zanzibar (1928) made four years later tries to outdo the Lon Chaney original in morbidity. Read More »
Crime Unlimited (1935) Ralph Ince, Esmond Knight, Lilli Palmer, Cecil Parker
Frustrated by a seemingly infallible gang of jewel thieves, Scotland Yard Read More »
The Mad Genius (1931) Michael Curtiz, John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Charles Butterworth
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Read More »