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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) war drama (playlist - complete)
Won "Best Production" (Picture), and Best Director Oscars for 1929-30
Won "Best Production" (Picture), and Best Director Oscars for 1929-30
Seven Days Leave (1930) law and order drama added 4 Sep 09
starring Gary Cooper, Beryl Mercer
based on James M Barrie's "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals"
starring Gary Cooper, Beryl Mercer
based on James M Barrie's "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals"
A childless cleaning lady Beryl Mercer, during WWI, creates a fictional son, so she can also say that her son is at the front, and brags about him to her friends. The jig is up, when the local rector accidentally meets a soldier Gary Cooper with the name surname and decides he must be her son. When Gary and Beryl meet, at first he is incensed, but then cools down, and they become friends. He finally agrees to maintain the charade, as he has no one else to watch out after him anyway.
A scratchy cut of this movie. You know some of Gary's acting here is pretty, how shall we say... bad. His fault? Or the bad direction and production. Sort of a disappointment. See below for a much better Cooper movie. Beryl steals this one. She is perfect as his fantasy mother.
Hell's Angels (1930), law and order romance drama, a Howard Hughes production, directed by Howard Hughes
starring Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13
A love triangle, two brothers, one woman, during World War I. Lots of battle scenes and airplanes. Jean while dating the older brother, seduces the not-unwilling younger brother as well. All three enlist for the war. It appears that the very end of this film might be cut off, but you'll see the climax.
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M (1931) drama (playlist - complete), starring Peter Lorre (in German)
A haunting drama of a murderer of little girls, who is finally cornered by a mob.
In German with English subtitles
Voted by IMDb readers Best Film of the 1930s
This film was remade in the 1950s starring David Wayne.
His Woman (1931), romance starring Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert
Gary is the captain of a ship, who finds an abandoned baby. Claudette is his sometime love interest, who falls for him and the baby. He discovers that she is a somewhat fallen woman and spurns her. Not one of Gary's best films, and the overall morality is dated and odd to today's viewers. Almost misogynistic.Gary seems a bit more-than-normally wooden. Overall a bit melodramatic.
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8 (complete)Dracula (1931), horror starring Bela Lugosi
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8 (complete)
Possessed (1931) romance starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
(also notice Clara Blandick as "Mother", she is best-known today as "Auntie Em" from Wizard of Oz)
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8 (complete)
Cimarron (1931) family-life romantic western (playlist - complete), starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne
Won Best Picture Oscar for 1930-31
Girls About Town (1931), romance drama directed by George Cukor
starring Kay Francis, Joel McCrea, Lilyan Tashman, Eugene Palette, and Allan Dinehart
with Lucille Webster Gleason, Anderson Lawler, Lucille Brown,
George Barbier, Robert McWade, Louise Beavers
New York society of the 1930s. Aunt (Lilyan Tashman) and niece (Kay Francis) are paid escorts to businessmen so their friend (Allan Dinehart) can land deals after the men are wined and dined. The women cleverly ditch the men at the end of the dining, without sex, just the flirtation. Kay wants to give-up this high life by marrying Joel McCrea, but it turns out she's already married, albeit separated from Anderson Lawler. Drama ensues, but there's a happy ending.
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Grand Hotel (1932) drama The goings-on at a luxury hotel in 1930's Berlin (playlist - complete)
Starring John Barrymore, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Berry, Lionel Barrymore.
Won Best Picture Oscar for 1931-32
I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), starring Paul Muni (playlist - complete)
White Zombie (1932) horror added 28 Aug 09
starring Bela Lugosi
starring Bela Lugosi
A young couple are invited to Haiti to get married, but unbeknownest to them, their host has fallen in love with the woman and uses a local Voodoo doctor to try to lure the woman away.
This is apparently the first movie released in the U.S. to include zombies. Dark, brooding, sinister.
This is apparently the first movie released in the U.S. to include zombies. Dark, brooding, sinister.
A Farewell to Arms (1932) law and order romance added 2 Sep 09
starring Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou
from the novel by Ernest Hemingway
Rain (1932) drama added May 2010
starring Joan Crawford, with Walter Huston
story by W Somerset Maugham
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11
Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21 (complete)
starring Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou
from the novel by Ernest Hemingway
Set in Italy during WWI. Gary Cooper is an ambulance driver, Helen Hayes is a nurse. They fall in love, but Gary is sent away to the front. While he is away Helen is transferred to Milan to keep them apart. Cooper is badly injured by a bomb blast, but his friend shows up to make sure he gets transferred to the hospital in Milan as well. After one final barrier intervenes to keep them apart, Cooper goes AWOL and searches the countryside to find his lost love again.
Trivia: Gary Cooper... shirtless.Rain (1932) drama added May 2010
starring Joan Crawford, with Walter Huston
story by W Somerset Maugham
Joan Crawford a fast-living woman is confronted by a determined evangelist, while they are both stranded on an island. He converts her, but when she has finally submit to his will (which is so "righteous" it will make you sick), a certain kind of inevitable tragedy occurs.
Freaks (1932), suspense drama starring Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova and Roscoe AtesPart 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11
Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21 (complete)
| [Edit] Cavalcade (1933) starring Diana Wynyard, family-life An extended family lives through the Boer war and World War I, with various romances and dramas. Won Best Picture Oscar for 1932-33Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13 or try this YouTube search for Cavalcade 1933 |  |
Queen Christina (1933) biography, starring Greta Garbo
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11 (complete)
Duck Soup, (1933) comedy, starring the Marx brothers
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 (complete)
Little Women (1933) family-life movie
starring Katherine Hepburn
Chosen by Entertainment Weekly as one of the "Greatest Kids Films Ever Made"
She Done Him Wrong (1933) comedy drama romance
starring Mae West, with Cary Grant, Owen Moore and Gilbert Roland
Set in the "Gay Nineties" (1890s) in New York City's Bowery district
Mae West is a singer at a tavern/nightclub, Cary Grant runs the mission next door and wants to reform the customers. Mae West goes from one man to the next, one in prison, one owns the nightclub, one is married to another woman, and Cary runs the mission. Mae sings "Frankie and Johnny". A peculiar type of "romance" movie, but then Mae West says she plays romance like a man.
"I always did like a man in a uniform, and that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up some time -- see me. I'm home every evening." - Mae West
"I always did like a man in a uniform, and that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up some time -- see me. I'm home every evening." - Mae West
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The Thin Man (1934), suspense comedy
starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Cesar Romero (playlist - complete)
March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934), fantasy starring Laurel and Hardy
It Happened One Night (1934) romance starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert
Won Best Picture Oscar for 1934
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12 (complete)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) suspense drama added May 2010
starring Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
A murdered friend was a British secret agent, and so a couple's daughter is kidnapped to stop them from telling what they know. Shunning official involvement, they decide to track the kidnappers themselves.
Of Human Bondage (1934) drama romance added May 2010, produced by Pandro S Bermanstarring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis
from the novel by W Somerset Maugham
Leslie Howard is a club-footed medical student falls in love with Bette Davis who is a waitress who treats him coldly and yet may be using him. The story follows several years of her coming into and out of his life, and him carrying a torch for her all the time. Eventually the bond is broken in a tragic way.
Bride of Frankenstein (1935), horror starring Boris Karloff (playlist - complete)
The 39 Steps (1935), drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock (playlist - complete)
Scrooge (1935) classic literature fantasy drama added 23 Dec 2010
starring Seymour Hicks as Scrooge
First sound version of the classic Dickens' story "A Christmas Carol"
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Modern Times (1936) comedy, starring Charlie Chaplin
My Man Godfrey (1936) comedy-romance, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard
Showboat (1936) musical, starring Irene Dunne
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10
Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18 (complete)
Camille (1936) romance, starring Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor and Lionel Barrymore
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12 (complete)
Libeled Lady (1936), starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy (playlist - complete)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936) musical drama starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer (playlist - complete)
Also notice Frank Morgan, Fannie Brice, and Ray Bolger
Won Best Picture Oscar for 1936
Myrna Loy plays the real "Billie Burke". Billie as you know was "Glinda the Good Witch of Oz"
While "Billings" is played by Frank Morgan who was the "Wizard", and Ray Bolger plays as himself!
Fannie Brice of course was the real-life "Funny Lady" that Barbara Streisand's movie biographed.
Things to Come (1936) science-fiction based on a story by H.G. Wells
starring Raymond Massey
Phantom Ship (1936) horror
starring Bela Lugosi
Secret Agent (1936) law and order added May 2010 directed by Alfred Hitchcock
starring Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Guilgud, Robert Young
based on a novel by W Somerset Maugham
Secret agents during World War I, English versus German.
A Woman's Rebels (1936) romance drama added 19 Jun 2011
directed by Mark Sandrich, produced by Pandro S Berman
starring Katharine Hepburn, Herbert Marshall, Elizabeth Allen, Donald Crisp
Doris Dudley, David Manners, Lucille Watson, Van Heflin
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9
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The Awful Truth (1937) starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11 (complete)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Walt Disney animated fantasy movie
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 (complete)
In Old Chicago (1937) drama starring Tyronne Power, Don Ameche, Alice Fay, Brian Donlevy
Topper (1937) fantasy comedy starring Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13
(Trivia: Billie Burke who here plays "Mrs Topper", is best-known today as "Glinda the Good Witch" of Oz.)
A Star is Born (1937) romantic drama added 24 Aug 09
directed by William A Wellman, produced by David O Selznick
starring Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander
directed by William A Wellman, produced by David O Selznick
starring Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander
Janet Gaynor arrives in Hollywood to pursue her dream of becoming a star. Fredrick March is her alcoholic leading man, who she marries as her star is rising, and his is falling.
| [Edit] You Can't Take It With You (1938), romance comedy Starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold Directed by Frank Capra. Also notice Ann Miller, and Spring Byington Won Best Picture Oscar for 1938 Kirby needs to buy all the property in an area, but one man won't sell. Jimmy Stewart plays Kirby's son, who falls in love with Jean Arthur. |  |
Sex Madness (1938) drama
Voted by IMDb readers Worst Film of the 1930s
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone
Still the definitive Robin Hood, after 70 years.
Pygmalion (1938), romance, starring Leslie Howard, and introducing Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10 (complete)
Bringing Up Baby (1938) comedy-romance, starring Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 (complete)
Jezebel (1938), drama starring Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent (complete)
Produced and directed by William Wyler
The Sisters (1938) drama romance starring Errol Flynn and Bette Davis
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10
Algiers (1938), drama, produced by Walter Wanger and starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamar
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938), musical starring Shirley Temple, and Randolph Scott
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8 (complete)
The Beachcomber (1938) comedy romance added May 2010
starring Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Newton, Tyrone Guthrie
based on a story by W Somerset Maugham
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The Little Princess (1939) musical-comedy-drama starring Shirley Temple (Part 1 only)
Wuthering Heights (1939) drama
directed by William Wyler, starring Merle Oberon as Cathy, Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff
David Niven as Edgar, Geraldine FitzGerald as Isabella and Hugh Williams as Hindley
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8
Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15 (complete)
Dodge City (1939) western starring Errol Flynn (playlist - complete)
Golden Boy (1939) biography, starring William Holden and Barbara Stanwyck (playlist - complete)
Wizard of Oz (1939), fantasy, starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, and Jack Haley
(links to detail page - complete)
Gulliver's Travels (1939), animated fantasy movie
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9
Dark Victory (1939), romance directed by Alfred Hitchcock
and starring Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart and Geraldine FitzGerald
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11
(Trivia: Also notice Ronald Reagan)
Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939) tear-jerker drama (playlist - complete)
Starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Thomas Mitchell
The Phantom Creeps (1939) science-fiction
starring Bela Lugosi
The Dark Eyes of London (1939) horror
starring Bela Lugosi
Mr Moto's Last Warning (1939) law and order suspense added May 2010
starring Peter Lorre with Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Field, John Carradine, George Sanders, Joan Carol
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Voted by IMDb readers Worst Film of the 1930s
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone
Still the definitive Robin Hood, after 70 years.
Pygmalion (1938), romance, starring Leslie Howard, and introducing Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10 (complete)
Bringing Up Baby (1938) comedy-romance, starring Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 (complete)
Jezebel (1938), drama starring Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent (complete)
Produced and directed by William Wyler
The Sisters (1938) drama romance starring Errol Flynn and Bette Davis
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10
Algiers (1938), drama, produced by Walter Wanger and starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamar
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938), musical starring Shirley Temple, and Randolph Scott
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8 (complete)
The Beachcomber (1938) comedy romance added May 2010
starring Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Newton, Tyrone Guthrie
based on a story by W Somerset Maugham
A repressed lady missionary and a drunkard discover a mutual interest.
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The Little Princess (1939) musical-comedy-drama starring Shirley Temple (Part 1 only)
Wuthering Heights (1939) drama
directed by William Wyler, starring Merle Oberon as Cathy, Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff
David Niven as Edgar, Geraldine FitzGerald as Isabella and Hugh Williams as Hindley
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8
Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15 (complete)
Dodge City (1939) western starring Errol Flynn (playlist - complete)
Golden Boy (1939) biography, starring William Holden and Barbara Stanwyck (playlist - complete)
Wizard of Oz (1939), fantasy, starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, and Jack Haley
(links to detail page - complete)
Gulliver's Travels (1939), animated fantasy movie
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9
Dark Victory (1939), romance directed by Alfred Hitchcock
and starring Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart and Geraldine FitzGerald
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11
(Trivia: Also notice Ronald Reagan)
Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939) tear-jerker drama (playlist - complete)
Starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Thomas Mitchell
The Phantom Creeps (1939) science-fiction
starring Bela Lugosi
The Dark Eyes of London (1939) horror
starring Bela Lugosi
Mr Moto's Last Warning (1939) law and order suspense added May 2010
starring Peter Lorre with Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Field, John Carradine, George Sanders, Joan Carol
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