In this melodrama, an engineering professor longs to leave his ivory tower so he can be involved in a special project taking...
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1934
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Frank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling...
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1934
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In this romantic musical, a carnival knife thrower's assistant falls for a Parisian tour guide who earns money wearing a...
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1933
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1933
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There's nothing wrong with Hold Your Man that a little editing wouldn't cure. Clark Gable plays a raffish young petty crook...
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1933
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Man of the Forest is based on a Zane Grey story, previously filmed in 1921 and 1926. The title character is two-fisted...
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1933
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1933
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1933
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Silent screen legend Mary Pickford makes her final movie appearance in Secrets, adapted from the play by Rudolph Besier and...
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Mrs. Marlow
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1933
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1933
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A wife is on trial for murdering her husband's former spouse in this inexpensive melodrama from low-budget Mayfair Pictures...
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1933
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In this drama, Diana (Myrna Loy) is a beautiful tourist from the United States who is visiting Cairo, accompanied by her...
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1933
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Frisky princess Marie Christine, known as Mitzi (Janet Gaynor) passes herself off as a manicurist, and falls in love with...
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1933
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In this murder mystery, a nurse with an unusual eye for detail solves a puzzling case. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1932
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One of the most technically accomplished and sophisticated movie musicals of the 1930's, Rouben Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight...
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1932
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A night club owner under heavy police protection is murdered anyway, and a clever police commissioner figures out that it...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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"So much for Carlotta" muses the head of German Espionage (Lewis Stone), shortly after secret agent Karen Morley is put to...
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1932
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1932
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Hatchet Man is a dated but fascinating film set amidst the "tong wars" in San Francisco's Chinatown. Tong hatchet man Wong...
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1932
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Based on Veneer, a 1929 Broadway flop by Hugh Stange, this sentimental domestic drama came to the screens in early 1932,...
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1932
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In this suspenseful drama, an embittered woman exacts revenge upon the 12 women who wronged her in college. The trouble...
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1932
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1932
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This droll, sophisticated comedy stars Constance Bennett as Venice Muir, a shy young lady with no "past" of any kind -- and...
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1932
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Two rough-and-ready guys; one beautiful dame; a tough job that has to be done, and "one of us may not come out alive"; the...
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1931
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In this western, three rambunctious young cowboys head for the hills after spending a night painting a town red and...
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1931
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In this swashbuckling melodrama, set in Budapest, a seductive gold-digger becomes the mistress of a wealthy old man. She,...
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1931
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Lily Damita, an actress best known today for her tempestuous marriage to screen idol Errol Flynn, is the Dietrich-like...
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1931
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Ten cents a dance, that's what they pay her -- "her" being downtrodden taxi dancer Barbara (Barbara Stanwyck). The only thing...
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1931
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The old bromide about joining the Foreign Legion to "forget," so often parodied by such comedians as Laurel and Hardy, was...
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1931
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William Wellman's Night Nurse survives as a potentially interesting but ultimately unsatisfying melodrama about a nurse...
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1931
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Wicked stars Elissa Landi as Margot Rande, a basically decent woman led down the path to perdition by her bank-robber husband...
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1931
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An eerie early-talkie mystery, Murder by the Clock spends most of its time in a cemetery. The matriarch (Blanche Frederici)...
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1931
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The tall and virile Johnny Mack Brown portrays the short and dyspeptic outlaw William Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid....
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1930
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1930
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In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While...
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1930
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In this western based on a novel by Zane Grey, Buck Duane (George O'Brien) is a cowboy who is forced to kill a man in an act...
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1930
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1930
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An ambitious young groom makes foolish choices to impress his bride in this drama. To provide her with the posh lifestyle he...
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1930
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Illicit office romances provide the basis of this melodrama. The story centers around an older man's secretary who drops her...
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1930
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In this mystery set at an Army post, two women are having a passionate affair with a soldier. The trouble begins when one of...
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1930
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Edward Knoblock's warhorse theatrical piece Kismet, first filmed in 1920, resurfaced as a talkie in 1930. Repeating the role...
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1930
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The title alone should clue the reader that Numbered Men is a prison picture. Based on the stage play Jail Break, the film is...
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1930
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1929
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In this drama, an impoverished songwriter from the South travels to Tin Pan Alley with his trusty piano. He stays at a...
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Mrs. Langley
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1929
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1929
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A long-lost silent melodrama, Fleetwing stars handsome Barry Norton as a young Arab whose happiness over having captured both...
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1929
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Stage favorite Peggy Wood (later the star of the popular TV series Mama) made her screen debut in the MGM part-talkie Wonder...
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1929
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Having grown up under the thumbs of her two maiden aunts, 17-year-old Joan Hastings (Marceline Day) has never had a...
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Aunt Evvie
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1928
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Mrs. Atkinson
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1928
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The present unavailability of 1928's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is especially frustrating for those who'd like to compare this...
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1928
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