After being criticized by the Citizens’ League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases Read More »
Tag Archives: 1930s
If You Could Only Cook (1935) William A. Seiter, Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo
Auto magnate James Buchanan has a fiancée who doesn’t love him and a board of directors who won’t listen to him. Read More »
Green Gold / Vihreä kulta (1939) Valentin Vaala, Hanna Taini, Olavi Reimas, Sven Relander
Governess Kristine Bergman arrives in her native Lapland with her husband Gustav Bergman. Read More »
The Devil’s Cross / Cruz Diablo (1934) Fernando de Fuentes, Ramón Pereda, Lupita Gallardo, Julián Soler
In XVI century Nueva Espana, mysterious sword fighter Cruz Diablo (a sort of Spanish Robin Hood) terrorizes rich people with his signature Read More »
Birthright (1939) Oscar Micheaux, Carman Newsome, Ethel Moses, Alec Lovejoy
The restoration project added new sequences to Micheaux’s 1939 remake of his silent film Birthright. Read More »
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934) Edward Ludwig, Claude Rains, Joan Bennett, Lionel Atwill
A brilliant but impoverished writer, who is a pacifist, goes to work for a publisher and writes anti-war editorials. Read More »
Stingaree (1934) William A. Wellman, Irene Dunne, Richard Dix, Mary Boland
In 1874 Australia, newly installed Police Inspector Radford boasts to wealthy Hugh Clarkson Read More »
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) Michael Curtiz, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell
In London, sculptor Ivan Igor struggles in vain to prevent his partner Worth from burning his wax museum…and his ‘children.’ Read More »
The Woman I Love (1937) Anatole Litvak, Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Louis Hayward
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer. Read More »
Before Dawn (1933) Irving Pichel, Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson, Warner Oland
Joe Valerie stashed a million dollars in gold from a robbery 15 years earlier. Read More »