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Good Movies 1930's
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Movie: Ladies of Leisure ( 1930 )
An upper-crust artist hires a 'party girl' as a model; romance follows.
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Movie: Show Girl in Hollywood ( 1930 )
'Rainbow Girls' has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a natural, promises her a movie contract, and so she goes to Hollywood, but there is no contract for her. She meets Donny, a washed-up veteran actress (Blanche Sweet), on the lot who becomes her friend. Frank is fired from his studio and the new director finds that Frank's storyline is actually a copy of 'Rainbow Girls' stage play from Broadway. They call Jimmy, the author and Dixie's boyfriend, for the rights and he goes to Hollywood to produce it as a movie. Dixie gets the lead. But things start going wrong when Dizzy Dixie, spurred on by the fired Director Buelow, thinks that she is better than the picture or the studio and starts making demands. Interesting note: Good look at early Hollywood, with cameos by Loretta Young, Walter Pigeon, Noah Beery and a young Noah Beery, Jr. make the film fun to watch
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Movie: Morocco ( 1930 )
A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and due to the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.
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Movie: Framed ( 1930 )
Woman swears revenge against an Inspector who was responsible for her father's death.
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Movie: Safety in Numbers ( 1930 )
A songwriter hires three chorus girls to show him the "underside" of big-city life.
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Movie: All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 )
A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
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Movie: Up the River ( 1930 )
When paroled trustee Steve and former inmate Judy who try to put their criminal lives behind them are blackmailed, two career criminals come to their rescue.
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Movie: The Big Trail ( 1930 )
Breck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West.
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Movie: Abraham Lincoln ( 1930 )
An episodic biography of the 16th President of the United States.
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Movie: Dixiana ( 1930 )
In antebellum New Orleans, two men vie for the affections of a beautiful young girl during Mardi Gras.
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Movie: Hell's Angels ( 1930 )
Brothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in still another man's arms.
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Movie: Just Imagine ( 1930 )
New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.
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Movie: Paid ( 1930 )
Mary Turner goes up for three years on a crime she didn't commit. Once out she and former prison mates plan a scam in which old men can be sued for breach of promise - the "heart balm" racket. After plotting verious ways to get back at the men who set her up initially, she softens and settles down.
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Movie: Dracula ( 1931 )
The ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina.
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Movie: No Limit ( 1931 )
Theater usherette Bunny O'Day (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling den, and gets involved in a romance with a ne'er-do-well gambler.
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Movie: Little Caesar ( 1931 )
A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.
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Movie: Millie ( 1931 )
Millie's life begins to crumble when she finds out her husband is having an affair.
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Movie: Ten Cents a Dance ( 1931 )
Men pay a dime to dance with Barbara and her fellow taxi dancers. She marries Eddie and plans to quit dancing. Before she does, she meets a handsome and rich gentleman.
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Movie: City Streets ( 1931 )
Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.
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Movie: The Public Enemy ( 1931 )
A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war.
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Movie: Lonely Wives ( 1931 )
A lonely husband whose wife has been away hires a lookalike impersonator to fill his place and fool his mother-in-law while he plays around with a pretty coquette. Confusion prevails when his wife returns that evening.
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Movie: The Painted Desert ( 1931 )
Two men find an abandoned baby and fight over the ownership of the child resulting in lifelong rivalry.
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Movie: Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour ( 1931 )
A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarty.
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Movie: The Bad Sister ( 1931 )
Marianne falls in love with a con artist who has a hidden agenda.
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Movie: Ladies' Man ( 1931 )
A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society."
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Movie: Trader Horn ( 1931 )
Two white traders in the darkest Africa of the 1870s find a missionary's daughter, who was captured as a child by a savage tribe and now worshiped as a goddess.
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Movie: Frankenstein ( 1931 )
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
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Movie: Arizona ( 1931 )
Bob refuses to marry his girlfriend and leaves her. She marries his close friend out of revenge.
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Movie: Smart Money ( 1931 )
Immigrant Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.
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Movie: The Woman Between ( 1931 )
Julie Whitcomb and Paul Niles meet and fall in love on the ship returning them from Europe. But once in New York, where Julie owns a boutique, she tries to break off their romance, telling Paul she's married. At the same time, Julie's stepdaughter, Doris, plans a welcome home party for her brother, Victor, after his extended absence. He left in a huff when his father, John, planned to marry shortly after his mother died, and never met the intended bride. When Julie joins the party, both are shocked when they see each other. It seems that Victor changed his name to Paul Niles and Julie was known as Madame Julie, the name of her boutique, so they had no idea when they met they were stepmother and stepson. They continue their deception, but Doris guesses the truth when she catches Victor lying about the ship he came in on. She writes a letter to her father telling all, but Julie gets hold of the note. Victor has asked her to meet him at the pier for a ship going back to Europe, and now John tells her he bought her a villa on the Riviera where they can both retire to. Torn between both her loves, she first asks John to read the letter Doris wrote.
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Movie: My Sin ( 1931 )
In Panama, notorious nightclub hostess Carlotta kills a man in self-defense and is arrested for murder. Defending her at her trial is Dick Grady, a lawyer who has wasted his talent on alcohol. When he proves Carlotta's innocence, however, he regains respect and employment. Dick goes to Carlotta's apartment to thank her, and arrives just in time to keep her from committing suicide. He agrees that while the persona of Carlotta must die, the woman inside must go on and start anew. Loaning her his advance money, Carlotta and Dick create a new identity for her as "Ann Trevor," and she moves to New York. Through various letters and repayment checks, Dick learns that Carlotta is happy and successful and falls in love with her. He relocates to New York, where Carlotta is employed as an interior decorator and is engaged to wealthy Larry Gordon. Carlotta is happy to see Dick again, but is dismayed to learn that he is in love with her. Dick believes she is deceiving Larry because she does not intend to tell him of her past. Carlotta is introduced to Larry's family and discovers that Larry's uncle is Roger Metcalf, Dick's employer from Panama. Dick visits at the same time and tells Carlotta's story, but informs them that Carlotta "killed" herself. Unable to conceal the truth any longer, Carlotta confesses her past, and although Larry and his mother try to be understanding, the engagement is broken. One year later, Carlotta is assigned to decorate the house that Larry originally bought for their marriage and finds that Dick has purchased it. Carlotta finally admits her love for Dick, and after accepting his marriage proposal, they enter their new home together.
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Movie: Morals for Women ( 1931 )
A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love in this vintage cautionary tale.
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Movie: Corsair ( 1931 )
A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.
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Movie: The Range Feud ( 1931 )
Clint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was an enemy of his own father.
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Movie: Island of Lost Souls ( 1932 )
After his ship goes down, Edward Parker is rescued at sea. Parker gets into a fight with Captain Davies of the Apia and the Captain tosses him overboard while making a delivery to the tiny tropical island of Dr. Moreau. Parker discovers that Moreau has good reason to be so secretive on his lonely island. The doctor is a whip-cracking task master to a growing population of his own gruesome human/animal experiments. He does have one prize result, Lota the beautiful panther woman. Parker's fortunes for escape look up after his fiancée Ruth finds him with the help of fearless Captain Donohue. However, when Moreau's tribe of near-humans rises up to rebel, no one is safe...
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Movie: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1932 )
Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
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Movie: The Greeks Had a Word for Them ( 1932 )
Sophisticated comedy: a trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. Each woman represents a different personality type, from sensitive, to kind-hearted, to difficult and untrustworthy. Set in the age of jazz, the twenties come roaring back with immorality and in-fighting.
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Movie: Murders in the Rue Morgue ( 1932 )
A mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts to kidnapping women for his experiments.
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Movie: Dancers in the Dark ( 1932 )
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.
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Movie: Tarzan the Ape Man ( 1932 )
A trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes.
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Movie: Scarface ( 1932 )
An ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.
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Movie: Sinners in the Sun ( 1932 )
A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.
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Movie: Strangers of the Evening ( 1932 )
Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.
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Movie: The Man from Yesterday ( 1932 )
A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the hotel there, she is astounded to see her supposedly dead husband.
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Movie: Devil and the Deep ( 1932 )
Naval commander Charles Sturm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive behavior soon drives her to the arms of a handsome lieutenant. When Charles learns of their affair, he plots revenge.
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Movie: The Most Dangerous Game ( 1932 )
An insane hunter arranges for a ship to be wrecked on an island where he can indulge in some sort of hunting and killing of the passengers.
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Movie: Million Dollar Legs ( 1932 )
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money. Either a masterpiece of absurdity or a triumph of satire, depending on your mood, but it's quite possibly the funniest movie ever made, and becomes even funnier with subsequent viewings.
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Movie: Grand Hotel ( 1932 )
A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
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Movie: Love Me Tonight ( 1932 )
A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
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Movie: Ride Him, Cowboy ( 1932 )
John Drury agrees to look for the outlaw known as the Hawk and Henry Simms volunteers to help him. But Simms is the Hawk and he leaves Drury on the desert to die. Simms then kills a man and plants John's harmonica at the scene. With the help of his horse Duke, John returns only to find that he is accused of murder and about to face the hanging Judge.
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Movie: Tonight or Never ( 1932 )
A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.
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Movie: The Mummy ( 1932 )
A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.
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Movie: Madame Butterfly ( 1932 )
Lieutenant Pinkerton marries geisha-in-training but soon after abandons her and goes back to the US.
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Movie: Blonde Venus ( 1932 )
American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance at being cured. Wife Helen returns to night club work to attempt to raise the money and becomes popular as the Blonde Venus. In an effort to get enough money sooner, she prostitutes herself to millionaire Nick Townsend. While Ned is away in Europe, she continues with Nick but when Ned returns cured, he discovers her infidelity. Now Ned despises Helen but she grabs son Johnny and lives on the run, just one step ahead of the Missing Persons Bureau. When they do finally catch her, she loses her son to Ned. Once again she returns to entertaining, this time in Paris, and her fame once again brings her and Townsend together. Helen and Nick return to America engaged, but she is irresistibly drawn back to her son and Ned. In which life does she truly belong?
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Movie: The Big Stampede ( 1932 )
Both Sam Crew and his gang and Sonora Joe and his men are rustlers after a cattle herd just arriving. John Steele, sent by the Governor, is out to stop them. Greatly outnumbered, Steele's plan is to deputize Sonora and his men to fight the Crew gang.
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Movie: Slightly Married ( 1932 )
A drunk stranger offers to provide a woman accused of prostitution with an alibi in court. Things escalate quickly, and before the court hearing is over, the judge has married the two.
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Movie: The Old Dark House ( 1932 )
Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
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Movie: Evenings for Sale ( 1932 )
Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball. There he meets lovely Lela Fischer and falls in love with her. A chance meeting with his former butler, brings a job offer as a gigolo.
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Movie: Call Her Savage ( 1932 )
Sexy Texas gal storms her way through life, brawling and boozing until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the errors of her ways.
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Movie: A Farewell to Arms ( 1932 )
An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I.
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Movie: Haunted Gold ( 1932 )
John Mason returns to the Sally Ann mine to claim his half share. Janet Cater also returns although her father lost his half share to Joe Ryan. Ryan and his gang are also there to get the gold. A mysterious Phantom is also present. Mason's plan to expose Ryan as an outlaw and to force him to turn his share to Janet works. But when distracted by the Phantom, John is made a prisoner by the gang.
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Movie: The Animal Kingdom ( 1932 )
Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is bored with the social scene and the obligations of his life. He publishes books that will sell, not books that he wants to write. Even worse, he has his old friend working as a butler and Cecelia wants him fired. When Tom tries to get back together with Daisy to renew the feelings that he once felt, Daisy turns the tables on him and leaves to protect both of them.
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Movie: Jungle Bride ( 1933 )
A young woman believes that an actor committed the murder for which her brother has been imprisoned, and she gets her fiancé--a newspaper reporter--to accompany her in following the suspected killer aboard a ship headed for South America. While they're at sea, disaster strikes and the ship is sunk. The three of them, plus the actor's friend, are washed up on a deserted island. Complications ensue.
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Movie: The Vampire Bat ( 1933 )
When corpses drained of blood begin to show up in a European village, vampirism is suspected to be responsible.
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Movie: Frisco Jenny ( 1933 )
The San Francisco earthquake shakes up the life of Jenny, a madam who gives birth to an illegitimate son and gives him up to protect him.
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Movie: Forgotten ( 1933 )
A kindly old man is neglected by his selfish and greedy sons.
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Movie: She Done Him Wrong ( 1933 )
In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member.
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Movie: King of the Jungle ( 1933 )
A white youth who is raised in the jungle by the animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
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Movie: Oliver Twist ( 1933 )
An orphan boy in 1830's London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.
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Movie: From Hell to Heaven ( 1933 )
The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different ways. .
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Movie: King Kong ( 1933 )
A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition.
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Movie: Christopher Strong ( 1933 )
A famous female flier and a member of Parliament drift into a potentially disastrous affair.
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Movie: Murders in the Zoo ( 1933 )
A monomaniacal zoologist is pathologically jealous of his beautiful but unfaithful wife Evelyn and will not stop short of murder to keep her.
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Movie: The Keyhole ( 1933 )
Anne Brooks is being blackmailed by her old dancing partner Maurice. They married when she was young but broke up after which he said he was getting a quickie divorce. Anne married the much older millionaire Schuyler Brooks only to have Maurice return to reveal he didn't obtain the divorce after all. Now he wants money to keep quiet. Anne reveals her secret to Schuyle...Read all
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Movie: Ex-Lady ( 1933 )
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.
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Movie: The World Gone Mad ( 1933 )
A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.
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Movie: Deluge ( 1933 )
A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well.
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Movie: A Shriek in the Night ( 1933 )
Pat Morgan and Ted Kord are rival newspaper reporters always trying to outscoop each other. They join together to solve a series of murders being committed in an apartment building.
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Movie: Dora's Dunking Doughnuts (Short 1933) ( 1933 )
A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.
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Movie: Kid 'in' Africa ( 1933 )
Missionary Cradlebait goes to the jungle to "civilize" the cannibals, but ends up in a cooking pot.
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Movie: The Private Life of Henry VIII ( 1933 )
King Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.
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Movie: Merrily Yours (Short 1933) ( 1933 )
Sonny falls for the pretty new girl next door and decides to take her to a party. First, however, he has to get his sister Mary Lou to go to sleep, which is proving to be a harder task than he anticipated.
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Movie: I'm No Angel ( 1933 )
Circus performer Tira seeks a better life pursuing the company of wealthy New York men with improbable comic complications along the way.
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Movie: White Woman ( 1933 )
A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. She and the plantation's overseer develop a mutual attraction, but are terrified at what will happen if her husband finds out.
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Movie: The Kennel Murder Case ( 1933 )
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
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Movie: Riders of Destiny ( 1933 )
Kincade controls the area's water supply and is about to force the ranchers into contracts at exorbitant rates. Government Agent Saunders has a plan that will open up the lost river and dry up Kincade's supply. So he gets the ranchers to insist on a clause that Kincade's land will revert to the public if he fails to deliver water.
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Movie: Baby Face ( 1933 )
A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank - by gleefully sleeping her way to the top.
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Movie: Little Women ( 1933 )
A chronicle of the lives of a group of sisters growing up in nineteenth-century America.
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Movie: The Sin of Nora Moran ( 1933 )
Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the truth and save her own life, if only it would not damage the lives, careers and reputations of those who she loves.
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Movie: Lady Killer ( 1933 )
A former gangster makes it big in Hollywood, but his old life catches up with him.
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Movie: Dinner at Eight ( 1933 )
Affluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.
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Movie: Sagebrush Trail ( 1933 )
The Duke is wrongly convicted for a killing, but he escapes from prison and heads out west to find the real killer.
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Movie: Design for Living ( 1933 )
A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
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Movie: Alice in Wonderland ( 1933 )
In Victorian England a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland populated by even more fantastic characters.
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Movie: Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 )
Aviator and band leader Roger Bond is forever getting his group fired for flirting with the lady guests. When he falls for Brazilian beauty Belinha de Rezende it appears to be for real, even though she is already engaged. His Yankee Clippers band is hired to open the new Hotel Atlântico in Rio and Roger offers to fly Belinha part way home. After a mechanical breakdown and forced landing, Roger is confident and makes his move, but Belinha plays hard to get. She can't seem to decide between Roger and her fiance Júlio. When performing the airborne production number to mark the Hotel's opening, Júlio gets some intriguing ideas...
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Movie: The Lucky Texan ( 1934 )
Jerry Mason, a young Texan, and Jake Benson, an old rancher, become partners and strike it rich with a gold mine. They then find their lives complicated by bad guys and a woman.
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Movie: Pardon My Pups ( 1934 )
Sonny wants a motorcycle for his birthday, and is disappointed when he learns that he is getting a dog instead.
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Movie: Palooka ( 1934 )
Knobby discovers young hunk Palooka and trains him to fight the reigning champ, also drunken sot, Al McSwatt.
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Movie: Four Frightened People ( 1934 )
Four passengers escape their bubonic plague-infested ship and land on the coast of a wild jungle. In order to reach safety they have to trek through the jungle, facing wild animals and attacks by primitive tribesmen.
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Movie: The 9th Guest ( 1934 )
Eight strangers are invited to spend the night in a penthouse apartment. After being wined and dined, a voice on the radio informs them that they will be murdered unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest: Death.