Gail Preston (Rita Hayworth), a band-singer with no shortage of enemies, is shot to death in the middle of her second song Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
Lovin the Ladies (1930) Melville W. Brown, Richard Dix, Lois Wilson, Allen Kearns
Jimmy Farnsworth (Allen Kearns) bets his friend $5,000 that he can get any two people Read More »
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932) Frank Capra
The American missionary Megan Davis arrives in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War to marry the missionary Dr. Robert Strife. Read More »
Le million (1931) René Clair, Annabella, René Lefèvre, Jean-Louis Allibert
Michel, a Parisian artist, is being hounded by numerous impatient creditors. Read More »
The Gaunt Stranger (1938) Walter Forde, Sonnie Hale, Wilfrid Lawson, Louise Henry
A suspense thriller with virtually the entire cast under suspicion of murder. Read More »
The Big Pond (1930) Hobart Henley, Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, George Barbier
A tour guide in Venice romances a visiting American tourist whose father owns a chewing-gum factory back in the U.S. Read More »
Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy – Disc Four (1933-39) Vitaphone Singin’ and Swingin’ – Musical delights from the worlds Broadway, Radio, Nightclubs and Vaudeville
In 1926, Warner Bros.’ Vitaphone branch made movie history with its “sound-on-disc” recording process Read More »
Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy – Disc Three (1931-34)
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 »
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 »